“Does this dryer need a vent? If not will it make the room hot?”
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It ask for a vent yes but both me and a family member have one without it. We don't notice any extra heat even when you place your hand over the vent its just warm not hot.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.YES, it will need to be vented. Dryers need a place for the moisture in your clothes to go while drying. If you don't connect the vent port on the back to a vent on the outside of wherever you're using the dryer, it will heat, and make moist, the area where you're trying to dry. If enough of the moisture in the air coming OUT of the dryer gets into the front, it will have no way to dry your clothes, and it will just run and run and do nothing. (Think of the case of a dryer without the vent to outside in an enclosed room, like a bathroom or closet without a vent to the outside. Dryers are neat but not magical devices. They don't magically dry clothes. They just tumble them over and over, while forcing room-temp, cool, warm, or hot, relatively dry air into the chamber where the clothes are, where the air (hopefully) picks up moisture, and carries it out the back. There ARE ventless dryer kits available for purchase, but they don't really do anything about THIS problem. All they do is help keep any lint that makes it past your lint filter from escaping into the room. I SUPPOSE they MIGHT reduce moisture if you have one that you fill with water, by having the hot, moist air hitting a reservoir of cold water, encouraging the water to CONDENSE, but there's also warm air hitting a tub of water straight on... so I suspect it vaporizes and loses more water than it catches, unless you're venting into a big bucket of ice... hmm... that gives me an idea... If you took one of these drying kits and passed the warm moist air through a condenser... maybe. Actually, that's not THAT different from the setup I have with this dryer. I am in a place where I basically can't vent to the outside, so I have a dehumidifier set up right next to the dryer, with the dryer's output blowing near (though not directly ON) the intake of the dehumidifier. This sucks the water OUT of the air that the dryer PUT there using the water in the clothes. (I wish I could couple them directly but apparently the heat from the dryer might damage the dehumidifier if it were piped straight too it, because the output would be too hot.) There do exist VENTLESS dryers, which are basically the setup I now have, but instead of a vented dryer sitting side by side with a dehumidifier, these are single, self-contained all-in-one units, but they're huge and disgracefully expensive, and tend to have low user reviews and ratings. The cheapest one I've seen is something like 800 dollars, and I think that one was on-sale. The dehumidifier actually cranks out much warmer air than ambient, (it's essentially a refrigerator or air-conditioner which has the purpose of getting water in the air to condense out of it, and go down into a bucket,) so maybe it would be able to dry clothes by itself without the dryer, I just would need a way to get them to tumble over and over... The reason I am toying with this idea is that I recently bought this dryer and it has turned out to be malodorous. You know... stinky. I am going to return it as soon as I find a workable alternative, if I can before the return-window closes.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.This dryer will need a vent, otherwise it will make the room hot. There are kits that are available for purchase to vent the dryer. Thank you
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