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Help with DIY Dryerbox
I'm planning out a laundry room renovation and I can't figure out how to handle a dryer vent. I am trying to get the dryer as flush to the wall as possible for an over the washer/dryer counter install, but the current vent is requiring the dryer to be pushed out from the wall. I have an idea in mind but not sure if its a good idea. Dryer is against an exterior wall. Existing vent to the exterior is just a horizontal vent going straight through the exterior wall to an exhaust hood. The vent in the wall is about 10 inches to the left and 8 inches above the exhaust on the dryer unit, both are between studs Pics attached. I know the existing flex vent is bad, trying to fix that permanently with this part of the laundry room projected. Recessing some of the duct into the wall seems like a way to go, but Dryerboxes from hardware stores seem to only vent out the top/bottom, so that won't work. My thought is of having a custom recessed box between the studs with wall vent > 90 elbow > rigid vent tube > 90 elbow magvent coupling > dryer. First, I'm not sure if that is safe? code? Or what specifically I'd need to make it legit. Second, would it be best to either make my own 'dryerbox' with drywall(finished/painted) or fabricate my own metal box out of rectangular hvac duct? Any advice is appreciated. As a DIYer, I'm pretty capable at the 'doing', but my 'how's are sometimes questionable. https://preview.redd.it/9chaq9l2h4ne1.jpg?width=2263&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14d92f595ac4da26dd77b5c36f0dfbfec25dc1b9 https://preview.redd.it/u0grgcl2h4ne1.jpg?width=1728&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=448fcb06cd9db4a5027f53de24e78f3a7306d0c0 submitted by /u/happyjacked [link] [comments]
| | I'm planning out a laundry room renovation and I can't figure out how to handle a dryer vent. I am trying to get the dryer as flush to the wall as possible for an over the washer/dryer counter install, but the current vent is requiring the dryer to be pushed out from the wall. I have an idea in mind but not sure if its a good idea.
Recessing some of the duct into the wall seems like a way to go, but Dryerboxes from hardware stores seem to only vent out the top/bottom, so that won't work. My thought is of having a custom recessed box between the studs with wall vent > 90 elbow > rigid vent tube > 90 elbow magvent coupling > dryer. First, I'm not sure if that is safe? code? Or what specifically I'd need to make it legit. Second, would it be best to either make my own 'dryerbox' with drywall(finished/painted) or fabricate my own metal box out of rectangular hvac duct? Any advice is appreciated. As a DIYer, I'm pretty capable at the 'doing', but my 'how's are sometimes questionable. [link] [comments] |
