Venting Your Dryer Into The Attic

Dryer lint is also highly flammable.

Venting your dryer into the attic.

Dryer vents don t need cleaning. Venting your dryer to the attic is not only a potential fire hazard but can result in moisture problems which causes more problems. The dryer vents into the attic and not outside. Your dryer only has the power to push that heavy wet lint so far so it s inevitable that some of it is going remain behind in the vent pipe.

A dryer vent should be vented outside. The international residential code allows you to run a dryer vent through the attic but you can t terminate it there. You can buy a box called an indoor dryer vent kit at home improvement stores and it manages to control most of the lint but not the water dumped into the air. In these cases it may be necessary to vent your dryer through the attic.

Not all dryers will allow for this so be sure to check the owners manual to ensure it can be vented in this manner. Some homeowners use a much simpler system of venting down into a bucket of water like in the photo at the top of this page. As seniors cleaning out the vent is a hassle because we can t climb into the attic or move out the stacked washer dryer to get to the vent. Cindy asks my dryer vents into my attic.

Sometimes such as in town homes or condos it s not possible to vent a dryer through a wall outside. Our association will not permit any outside venting. We are wondering if there is any other way to vent the dryer which is gas.