Venting Your Dryer Into The Attic

Cindy asks my dryer vents into my attic.

Venting your dryer into the attic. 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. A dryer vent should be vented outside. Not all dryers will allow for this so be sure to check the owners manual to ensure it can be vented in this manner. We are wondering if there is any other way to vent the dryer which is gas.

Venting your dryer to the attic is not only a potential fire hazard but can result in moisture problems which causes more problems. Our association will not permit any outside venting. The international residential code allows you to run a dryer vent through the attic but you can t terminate it there. Dryer lint is also highly flammable.

The dryer vents into the attic and not outside. Dryer vents don t need cleaning. Sometimes such as in town homes or condos it s not possible to vent a dryer through a wall outside. 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.

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. Can a dryer vent go up through an 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.