Venting Clothes Dryer Into Roof

After the snow melts below the vent it ll probably freeze again farther down on the roof.

Venting clothes dryer into roof.

When venting dryers for long distances use rigid metal pipe with as few elbows as possible. But we don t recommend it for two reasons. When bath fans and clothes dryers vent through the roof they melt a bunch of snow. This is one of the most common mistakes we see from people who are not experienced with air ducts.

Air velocity reduction from friction loss promotes lint build up and makes the dryer work harder to completely dry each load. The international residential code allows you to run a dryer vent through the attic but you can t terminate it there. If venting outside isn t an option you can vent the dryer out of the attic through the roof using a special roof vent to keep rain out. Every turn increases friction loss unless you use non restrictive elbows.

Venting the dryer outside in cold weather wastes a lot of heat. Doing so would fill your attic with warm moist air that could rot the framing. It is not advisable to vent a dryer through the roof. 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.