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Wacky Weds: Clothes dryer taking forever to dry?

Amazingly the home inspector missed this…
killer-dryer-vent

As mentioned in our latest article;

Section M1502 in the IRC governs dryer exhausts – the salient points for new or retrofitting work (2009 IRC) are that it must terminate outside & be at least 3’ from any opening (so far so good.) With the exception of the piece connecting the dryer to the main line, it must be smooth metal pipe & supported every 4’ (yeah – big oops). The total length should not exceed 25’ (which includes the flex line from the dryer – which is limited to 8′) to the exterior. Any 90° bends in the line count as 5’ of length.

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Filed Under: Wordless Wednesday January 16, 2013 By SLS

Comments

  1. EnergyVanguard says

    January 17, 2013 at 09:18

    I wonder how many pounds of lint collected in that trap.

    • SLS Construction says

      January 17, 2013 at 11:38

      LOL, that is a great question & sounds like a great contest. Unfortunatly I don’t think we will ever know in this case

  2. EnergyVanguard says

    August 4, 2020 at 19:25

    I wonder how many pounds of lint collected in that trap.

    • SLS Construction says

      August 4, 2020 at 19:51

      LOL, that is a great question & sounds like a great contest. Unfortunatly I don’t think we will ever know in this case

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