How To Vent A Dryer Through Concrete Wall

Use the concrete hole saw attached to the drill to make a 4 1 4 inch diameter hole in the foundation from.

How to vent a dryer through concrete wall.

Use the drill and concrete drill bit to drill a pilot hole through the foundation from the inside to the outside. As a professional dryer vent cleaner we see many of these useless vents. Piping through a basement slab foundation or crawl space to the exterior. It is better to go straight up the wall and through the attic and vent on the roof rather than go through a slab.

Locate a place on the wall where the dryer vent will go through the foundation. Check with your appliance dealer or local building inspector for recommendations about the best roof vent cap to use. Transfer that measurement inside if necessary to mark the new dryer vent center. Use a 4 1 4 inch hole saw to cut the vent opening.

This job required a hole for the vent to be cut through concrete block and brick in order to. Venting the dryer outside in cold weather wastes a lot of heat. Installing a vent hole through a concrete cement or brick wall. Homeowners should budget an extra 50 to 150 to cut a hole through concrete cement or brick.

To make the dyer more efficient you can buy an inexpensive heat diverter and install it in the exhaust duct of electric dryers only not gas dryers you ll save about 50 worth of heat per load in the winter. Vent a dryer through the roof only as a last resort. Surprisingly the vertical vents work well. Therefore in order to operate correctly and be up to code you can only have a vent of 5 feet or less.

The entire 25 feet of the vent pipe from the old dryer location to the exterior vent hood was choked with lint. Cleaning lint buildup from roof vents is difficult and nesting birds and squirrels often find roof vent caps irresistible. A brief pictorial of a new vent going in where none was before.