Micky  wrote:

> Is this venting dryer into utility closet a bad idea.
> 
> This problem is one that bothers my landlady a lot:   All the
> apartments were built with space for a washer and a dryer, with the
> dryer next to an outside wall for venting the air. 
> 
> But, I think it is her neighbor right next door (2 apts. per floor)
> who rearranged his apartment and decided to revent the dryer. 
> 
> There is utility stack (right word?) that has floor-to-ceiling metal
> doors on each stairway landing.  I didnt' stick my head in, because
> it's pretty crowded, but I guess they go from the bottom to the top of
> the building with no "floors" of their own.   They carry the water
> drain, the power, probably the water, and maybe the gas and the phone.
> 
> They are 12 to 18" deep, probably 14 to 16" and the one she opened was
> about 30 or 36" wide, and there's another one just beside it.   I
> think they have a cement (or concrete?) wall in back and maybe the
> sides, but if this could make a difference, I'm not sure and I can
> probably find out. 
> 
> So this is where the n'bor vented his dryer.  I think you can see the
> 4" hose in the closet, up near the ceiling of the landing, which would
> be half the distance from the floor to the ceiling of her apartment
> and his. 
> 
> When she first said closet, I thought clothes, boxes, and storage.
> Not utilitiy closet.   So I agreed that it was bad.    But how bad is
> it to vent the dryer into this space?   What reasons?    There is some
> sort of condo association with rules, but of course, it if gets that
> far, one usually has to explain why something is really violating the
> rules.

Dryers work by removing water from the clothing.  Just where is all that
moisture going to go?  Is the dweller attempting to make it rain inside
his closet?  Does he want his windows coated on the inside with rime
during the winter months?

Go dump a load of clothes in a wash tub.  Pour in 2 buckets of water.
Now remove the clothes and wring them out as best you can with the water
wrung into the wash tub.  The difference in water is what is left in the
clothes.  Now take that same amount of water to put into a bucket and
hurl the water into the closet (or the room if the closet isn't sealed).
Was that a good idea to do every week for a load of laundry?  If the
dweller does N loads of laundry at a time, fill the bucket with N loads
of water that was left in the wrung out clothes and hurl that into the
closet.  Good idea?  No.

Just where is all the water getting dried out of the clothes going to
go?  Into the closet to soak its airspace and condense on the walls and
drip onto the floor and leak out into the room and create high humidity
problems there?  Is this dweller cultivating mold?

So there is a utility access across floors.  You think electricity and
plumbing need outside air access?  Why would that utility access have
any outside air access?  So instead of hurling water into the closet,
this dweller is hurling water into a closed flue.  If the landlord is
concerned, have him/her call the housing inspector and fine this abusive
dweller that made changes without a valid permit and possibly without
any permission of the property owner.  You said landlady which means the
neighbor does not own that property that he modified.  Just because some
boob wants to modify their residence doesn't grant them permission to do
so nor does it mean they know what the hell they are doing.

Then there is the lint.  No dryer catches all lint from the dried load
of clothing.  That means lint will accumulate in the utility access
which becomes a fire hazard.  Lint expelled outside wafts around and
should not collect (else it is a fire hazard).

If you are going to dry inside, get rid of the dryer.  Just use cords to
hang the wash.  That would be slower evaporation so humidity may remain
low enough not to damage the sheetrock walls, rust the pipes or any
electrical panels, or whatever else lines or is inside the utility
access.

And, of course, none of this has anything to do with the topic of THIS
newsgroup (anti-virus).
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