Venting Your Dryer Into The Attic

The dryer vents into the attic and not outside.

Venting your dryer into the attic.

Some homeowners use a much simpler system of venting down into a bucket of water like in the photo at the top of this page. Venting your dryer to the attic is not only a potential fire hazard but can result in moisture problems which causes more problems. Dryer vents don t need cleaning. Dryer lint is also highly flammable.

How can i vent it outside to make it less of a fire hazard improperly vented dryers and lint buildup cause over 15 000 fires a year. The international residential code allows you to run a dryer vent through the attic but you can t terminate it there. Doing so would fill your attic with. We are wondering if there is any other way to vent the dryer which is gas.

As seniors cleaning out the vent is a hassle because we can t climb into the attic or move out the stacked washer dryer to get to the vent. You can buy a box called an indoor dryer vent kit at home improvement stores and it manages to control most of the lint but not the water dumped into the air. Your dryer only has the power to push that heavy wet lint so far so it s inevitable that some of it is going remain behind in the vent pipe. Sometimes such as in town homes or condos it s not possible to vent a dryer through a wall outside.

Our association will not permit any outside venting. A dryer vent should be vented outside. Can a dryer vent go up through an attic.