Clothes Dryer Preference: Gas or Electric?

In My Humble Opinion
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I am moving into a new house in a few weeks. The house I am in now does not have natural gas, but the new house does have it, for the furnace. The new house currently has electric hookups for the range and the clothes dryer. I prefer cooking on a gas range so I am thinking about having that switched out. My question is whether there is any practical benefit to a gas clothes dryer over electric. I ran a quick energy tool that said the monthly cost would be comparable (gas came out cheaper by only a few dollars.)

Does anyone have any strong opinions either way?

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Anecdotally, IME gas dryers last longer than electric.

3

Gas dryers are a lot faster than electric in my experience, but you do need to vent the exhaust outside.

4

Do you not, with electric? My current electric dryer vents outside.

5

My small electric dryer has an exhaust (that we vent out a window).

6

With some smaller electric models you don’t need to vent them. They take longer to work, though. Alas, with my weird apartment layout there’s really no way for me to have a vented dryer so I make do with a ventless unit.

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With electric of course you have to vent the air from the drying process. With gas, you also have to vent the products of combustion.

Myself, I will not have gas in the house at all because I’m afraid of it.

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Only have to vent an electric dryer in the summer- it’s nice to keep that heat in the winter.
But given a choice, I’d like a gas dryer, gas stove, and gas water heater.

9

I don’t know where you live, but here in Nevada, that is a no-brainer; gas costs FAR less than electricity, which is why I have gas stove, gas heater, gas dryer, gas water heater…

10

I’m in Charlotte, NC. I did an online cost analysis that my energy company provides, and the difference is minimal.

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Don’t you get an awful lot of lint blown in?

12

You can’t trust the energy company on this that is a clear conflict of interests

13

They have systems where the exhaust is blown through a water bath. The water traps the lint.

14

What? Energy utilities publish their rates accurately.

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QFT

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As a kid we had electric. Ever since I have had gas. The gas dryers seem to last at least twice as long without needing any servicing, and it seems to me they work better.