Diesel  wrote:

> Yep, and good luck to the OP. If they don't have renters insurance, 
> they might want to consider it. That way, if/when something burns, 
> they'll stand a chance of being reimbursed for the losses.

Since the utility access is a common or shared building portion, this is
for a multi-unit dwelling.  So the ignorant renovating resident is going
to #### over the other residents in their shared dwellings.  Consider
this abusive dweller the same as some ####### that runs a meth lab in
their unit: their dwelling and the surrounding ones will get destroyed
(even if only partially to remove the shared walls) from contamination.
The renovating boob doesn't give a #### how he ####s over the other
residents.

Too bad this boob doesn't exhaust into his bedroom.  Then we'd be read
about the boob at Darwin Awards (http://www.darwinawards.com/).

The landlady has grounds for evicting this ignorant tenant (unless she
or the property owner were also stupid in granting his change of what is
NOT his property).  Evict, have him fined for code violation, and charge
for the cost of repairs to bring the unit back to code.

Micky never mentioned where is this boob.  He should do a search on
" housing code violation report" to find out where to tell the
landlady to sic the inspector on this boob's ass.  If he's done this
#### with just the dryer, he may have been "creative" with the exhausts
from the water heater and furnace, too.  If his dryer is electric, turn
off his electricity until he re-renovates to bring the unit back into
code compliance.
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