How to Use Excess Heat From Clothes Dryer to Heat Spaces
- 1). Purchase approximately 20 feet or more of metal vent pipe, according to your needs. This is important as it has to be of the metal variety.
- 2). Channel this metal vent pipe through a basement or a crawl space, and exit it out of a basement, utility or access window. The pipe will warm the space it runs through by convection heating each and every time you run your clothes dryer.
- 3). Attach a consumer-made "heat keeper" between your vent pipe and window exhaust vent. This works best with vinyl vent pipes and, by using a scissors to cut the vinyl, you can clamp the heat keeper device into place. Ideally suited to heating basement spaces, they have a baffle inside that can be activated to allow some or all of the dryer heat directly into the room where the dryer resides. Humidity will also be vented as well, but in very dry basements during the winter, this device will come in very handy to supplement both heat and humidity.
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