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This article series describes good practices for clothes dryer vent installation, lint traps, wall vents, filters, and screens.
We include a list of clothes dryer fire safety hazards and other clothes dryer installation or maintenance mistakes that are either unsafe or that interfere with effective, economical dryer operation.
We discuss types of dryer vent ducting and dryer vent doors or opening protection devices.
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Clothes Dryer Installation & Operation Manuals
Above and below: Do's and Dont's of clothes dryer exhaust venting routing as suggested by GE, cited below.
ALLIANCE LAUNDRY SYSTEMS Speed Queen DRYER INSTALLATION GUIDE [PDF] (2014), Alliance Laundry Systems, Website: https://alliancelaundry.com, retrieved 2018/12/07 original source https://www.winningappliances.com.au/public/manuals/Speed-Queen-ADEE8B-9kg-Dryer-Installation-Guide.pdf
Amana ELECTRIC DRYER INSTALLATION MANUAL [PDF] (2017), Whirlpool Corporation, Website: www.whirlpool.com retrieved 2018/12/07, original source: https://amana.com/assets/amana/pdfs/INSTALLGUIDE/NED4655EW_Installation%20Instruction_EN.pdf
GE ELECTRIC CLOTHES DRYER INSTALLATION MANUAL [PDF] 500A436P005_Rev0 General Electric Corporation, Appliances Division, Tel: 1-800-GECARES, Website: www.GEAppliances.com (US) retrieved 2018/12/07, original source: https://www.canadianappliance.ca/pdf/ge/front-load-electric-dryer/DWSR463EGWW-installation-instructions-canada.pdf
GE ELECTRIC CLOTHES DRYER INSTALLATION GUIDE [PDF] 234D2318P001 31-16755 (2015)Op. Cit. retrieved 2018/12/07, original source: https://images.homedepot-static.com/catalog/pdfImages/b8/b8e3d1e2-e914-4916-9c80-b1d6cbdcc6e0.pdf
Excerpts:
This dryer MUST be vented to the outdoors.
Use only 4” rigid metal ducting for the home
exhaust vent.
Use only 4” rigid metal or UL-LISTED transition duct
to connect the dryer to the home exhaust duct.
DO NOT use a plastic vent.
DO NOT exhaust into a chimney, kitchen exhaust,
gas vent, wall, ceiling, attic, crawl space, or
concealed space of a building.
DO NOT install a screen in or over the exhaust duct.
DO NOT use duct longer than specified in the
exhaust length table.
Watch out: Failure to follow these instructions can result in
death or fire.
[2] "Overheated Clothes Dryers Can Cause Fires, CPSC Document # 5022 Updated June 2003", U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, www.cpsc.gov., websearch 11/25/2011, original source: cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/5022.html
[3] "Electric and Gas Clothes Dryers, Staff Evaluation and Contractor Report", US CPSC Memorandum, 25 Feb 2000
[4]"Report on Electric and Gas Clothes Dryers", U.S. CPSC Memorandum, 25 Feb 1999, the Clothes Dryer Project, March 1999
[5] UL Standard 2158, voluntary standard for electric clothes dryers
[6] ANSI Z21.5 1 (CGA 7.1) voluntary safety standard for gas powered clothes dryers
Clothes Dryer & Dryer Vent Temperatures
This discussion, now found at CLOTHES DRYER TEMPERATURES gives the various temperatures found inside of clothes dryers, in and at the clothes dryer tumbler or drum, heater, and in the dryer exaust vent during both normal safe operation and during unsafe conditions that risk a dryer fire or building fire.
We include a table of the tempeatures that occur inside of clothes dryers at different places in the equipment and in its venting system and we describe unsafe dryer operating temperatures.
Clothes Dryer Exhaust Vent Installation, Dryer Temperatures, Dryer Fires Research
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