Our builder put a little tiled tub with a drain in the floor for our washer and dryer to sit in. Good idea. Unfortunatley the tub is too small and the hot air outlet of our dryer is about two inches from the connection to the venting outside. It had been working OK, but my wife just repainted the laundry room, which required moving the dryer, and the new tubing (4 ft. expanding aluminum which I looped up and then down) is evidently kinked as only a small amount of hot air is coming out of the end of the vent outside. I tried a periscoping mount but even that is too wide, and the end of the vent leading outside is slighly deformed so that the smaller corregated end does not fit inside. The vent leads through a wall and directly into the garage. I am considering cutting a part of this venting in the garage and then bringing the flexible tubing through the wall and connecting it there. Is this a bad idea? Does anyone have a better solution to my problem?
I should also mention that the drier outflow vent and the vent to the outside are essentially at the exact same spot so it has to be some kind of straight connector.
Then this was NOT a ‘good idea’, why did he do that? Anyway, are you saying that the dryer vent is two inches BELOW the outside vent pipe? I assume that is the case with what you describe. How about blocking up the dryer so the vents match in height? Not elegant but a simple fix. Also, you want as short a pipe as needed, no looping and twisting up and down just because the pipe is 4’ long. Cut it.
It’s my personal bias to never use flexible dryer venting pipe.
It kinks, and even when it’s not kinked closed, the kinks trap lint debris and eventually clog.
Whatever solution you use should enable ordinary sheet metal smooth-walled vent piping (some examples here http://www.cornerhardware.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=6753_6995) or even large PVC piping. The main thing is that the walls be smooth and the turns properly made. You can even go to square or rectangular cross sections with the proper fittings.
Main thing is to avoid that flexible crap (example here http://www.cornerhardware.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=6753_6995 )
It’s flexibility is its major flaw.
Just my opinion. YMMV.
It seemed like a good idea, the thought being that should the washer ever leak the leak would be contained and drain. The two inches refers to the distance from the back of the washer to the wall containing the vent. They are almost on the same level.