Needed Replacement

We finally got around to running a new dryer vent.For those for you who have not heard me lament the dryer vent, the previous owners installed a dryer line that was about 35 feet long, not counting elbows. 90 degree Elbows are equivalent to five feet of straight pipe. They put in 4. So my dryer vent was almost 60 feet long. It should never be longer than 25 feet.

We re routed out the front of the house. Now the line has 3 elbows and 12 feet of straight pipe. Yes, I know that's 27 feet of pipe, but it is as short as we could make it. The good news is that now I can hear the air whooshing out the vent like air out of a jet engine. And that's when I'm inside.

The other good news is that now we can dry a load in 15 minutes, as opposed to, and I am not kidding, 120 minutes.

The bad news is what the old vent pipe looked like when I pulled it out.

Pretty sure that having an inch of built up lint all the way around the inner diameter is a fire hazard. Or was that high risk for heart attack.

Maybe it was high risk for dying of heart attack when the house burned down.