Please educate me about ventless dryers

Hoggirl
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:14:27 +0000

We’ve been in our condo about 16 months. The dryer vents for the building are in various shared, “stacks,” that go through the five stories of the building. There are only 18 units in our building.

Unbeknownst to us, when our unit was completely remodeled in 2011 or so, the owners rerouted the dryer a different way. The remodel was not done by our sellers but by owners prior to them. It’s a long story that we have had to work hard to gather intel on. My best guess is that the current venting is not up to code - it’s crazy long with several 90 degree turns.

I don’t want to put the venting back to the original, shared stacking, because I don’t think it works very well either. I think that is why they tried an alternative. The people who live both above and below us have given up replaced their regular dryers with ventless ones.

It’s clear we are getting some lint build up. I spoke to a dryer vent guy about trying to have ours cleaned out, but after talking to him, it seems to me that a ventless dryer is the way we really need to go given the circuitous and likely non-code venting system we have. We had NO idea our unit was the only one in the building that was different than the others. There were apparently issues with what they did at the time with the POA, etc. It’s all rather frustrating.

Please don’t suggest alternative venting possibilities. I’m pretty convinced that we need to go ventless, so please advise me on brands, how the work, and the good, bad and the ugly if you can! Oh. And we have to be stacked in a closet.