"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On 10/20/2013 11:43 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> A lot of my friends in foreign countries have such things. AFAIK they
>> are not available here. But I have seen something for a dryer if you
>> have no vent to the outside. I was sold this mistakenly at a hardware
>> store on Staten Island. I went to get new hose for a dryer vent. I
>> told the guy that I was sure that we had a vent to the outside. But he
>> was like... You live in an apartment? You need this! It was sort of a
>> small bucket looking thing that attaches to the hose. I think you fill
>> it with water. It collects the lint. And you have to empty it, perhaps
>> each time you use it. Not really sure since we never used it since we
>> did need exactly what I said we needed. I learned to hate that hardware
>> store. They were notorious for selling us things we didn't need.
>
> The indoor vent kit just shoots the hot, moist, air into the house. The
> apartment we were renting had one of those. It got lint all over the
> place. We didn't know you're supposed to fill it with water. You could
> make one yourself and vent the dryer into a large bucket of ice. I figure
> 20 lbs might be enough for a load. This would catch the lint and remove
> the moisture from the air. Maybe it would cool the house too.
When I got my new washer and dryer, I had let the laundry go. The washer I
had been using didn't remove much water so it took forever to dry the
clothes.
I did about 5 loads in a row and began to realize that it was like a sauna
in here. I knew something was wrong when I went to open to front door to
try to cool things off and the door was soaking wet!
I had tried to look behind the dryer but could not. Both the washer and
dryer weigh a ton and were bigger than my old ones so I couldn't get around
them. And they were taller so I couldn't look over.
I finally made it my career to look back there. I can't remember how I did
that now, but there was the dryer hose with the clamp not clamped, sitting
on the floor and not connected to the vent. Mm hm.
They did come back (the next day I think) to fix it.