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Long story short - my dryer is in the utility room of my finished basement. The room has drywall covering the walls & the ceiling.
The dryer is vented, or rather was vented, with a (crappy) vinyl flexible line that ran from a hole in the bottom of the drywall next to the dryer up 12 feet in the air to a small metal elbow pipe which is connected to the outside vent.
The drywall for the walls extends about 8 feet high to the ceiling of the room. It is then about another 4 feet up to get to the elbow pipe which is then connected to the outside vent in the front of the house. Actually I am not sure if the elbow piece is part of the outside vent or is connected to it. I am going to try to figure that out tomorrow.
The problem is that the flexible line FELL DOWN. From my view this was a crap job done with ridiculously bad design in the first place then covered over with drywall so whoever bought the house (me) wouldn't know (don't get me started on how many similar things like this were done by this builder), and now I am stuck with trying to figure out how to fix this and want to do so with the least amount of pain (or expense) possible.
I have about a 3'x4' acess panel into the drywall next to the dryer that gives access to the water shutoff valve otherwise I wouldn't even know what was going on back there. The drywall on that wall is about a foot from the front outer wall of the house (cinderblock in the basement). There are a lot of pipes back there running in various directions also seemingly complicating the picture.
I can't see any way to fix this without having a big hole cut into the drywall, either the wall or the ceiling, then trying to squeeze through there and pull the vent line back up and somehow do a better job reattaching it (or replacing it with better piping, but still needing to tear through the drywall). Then somehow patch/fix the drywall afterwards.
A friend of mine recommended trying to go from the OUTSIDE of the house through the existing vent, dropping a piece of rope down, tieing the rope to the dryer line/pipe at the bottom, pulling it up, and attaching it somehow while working from the OUTSIDE, and although I can see that working in theory as far as getting the dryer line back up top I don't see how the hell it could be attached to the outside vent or the existing elbow pipe up there FROM THE OUTSIDE.
Unless - is it possible to buy some kind of outside dryer vent kit that lets you do this??? Attaching the hose up top on the outside, pushing that through the front of the house, then dropping that down???? Is that even possible??
Obviously I have absolutely NO IDEA what I am talking about. I have no experience with anything like this whatsoever and I do not know what is possible/impossible. I'd greatly appreciate any advice. THANKS.
The dryer is vented, or rather was vented, with a (crappy) vinyl flexible line that ran from a hole in the bottom of the drywall next to the dryer up 12 feet in the air to a small metal elbow pipe which is connected to the outside vent.
The drywall for the walls extends about 8 feet high to the ceiling of the room. It is then about another 4 feet up to get to the elbow pipe which is then connected to the outside vent in the front of the house. Actually I am not sure if the elbow piece is part of the outside vent or is connected to it. I am going to try to figure that out tomorrow.
The problem is that the flexible line FELL DOWN. From my view this was a crap job done with ridiculously bad design in the first place then covered over with drywall so whoever bought the house (me) wouldn't know (don't get me started on how many similar things like this were done by this builder), and now I am stuck with trying to figure out how to fix this and want to do so with the least amount of pain (or expense) possible.
I have about a 3'x4' acess panel into the drywall next to the dryer that gives access to the water shutoff valve otherwise I wouldn't even know what was going on back there. The drywall on that wall is about a foot from the front outer wall of the house (cinderblock in the basement). There are a lot of pipes back there running in various directions also seemingly complicating the picture.
I can't see any way to fix this without having a big hole cut into the drywall, either the wall or the ceiling, then trying to squeeze through there and pull the vent line back up and somehow do a better job reattaching it (or replacing it with better piping, but still needing to tear through the drywall). Then somehow patch/fix the drywall afterwards.
A friend of mine recommended trying to go from the OUTSIDE of the house through the existing vent, dropping a piece of rope down, tieing the rope to the dryer line/pipe at the bottom, pulling it up, and attaching it somehow while working from the OUTSIDE, and although I can see that working in theory as far as getting the dryer line back up top I don't see how the hell it could be attached to the outside vent or the existing elbow pipe up there FROM THE OUTSIDE.
Unless - is it possible to buy some kind of outside dryer vent kit that lets you do this??? Attaching the hose up top on the outside, pushing that through the front of the house, then dropping that down???? Is that even possible??
Obviously I have absolutely NO IDEA what I am talking about. I have no experience with anything like this whatsoever and I do not know what is possible/impossible. I'd greatly appreciate any advice. THANKS.
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