Dryer flex pipe

[sciphi]

I'm not liking dryer flex pipe at the moment. The semi-rigid aluminum stuff has been a real bear to work with. Getting it to stay on rigid pipe or elbows has been a challenge, and I end up wrestling with it to get it to seal well. The next time I need to mess with dryer ducting, it'll be replacing the semi-rigid duct with rigid pipe. For my particular application, it's simply the wrong material. The dryer sits right below the outside vent pipe, so it's a simple matter to run a piece of straight pipe with two 90* elbows at each end.

OTOH, there are some situations where it's invaluable, such as in my old apartment. Rigid pipe would have been a very hard/expensive solution, and a piece of flex pipe was exactly what was needed to vent the dryer to a vent placed in an odd spot.

 

[Joe_Power]

Nice story. Very touching.

 

[JTK]

I hear you sciphi. Plus the more you mess with it, the more it unravels on you and boogers up the ends. I've got a first-floor laundry, with the washer and dryer raised up on a ceramic tiled step. Whoever built the setup had to make an access notch in the floor to reach the exhaust pipe that's lower than the dryer, so the aluminum flex has to do a drastic S-curve. It's a real good time. I dread having to slide the dryer out for anything. I've got those 4" spring clamps holding it at both ends. For areas with good access, aluminum tape works wonders.

 

[Donald]

I have a situation where I want to replace my dryer with a newer one with a rear vent vs side vent. The vent now only goes maybe 2". The new vent will go less than a foot. But I cannot get behind it or anything so I will need to use flex pipe to connect it with it slid out a foot or so, then slide it back into position.

Or I will figure out a better way.

 

[JTK]

Donald, it's not bad if the alum. flex hose doesn't have to do drastic bends. Interesting though, I've never seen a side exhaust dryer.

 

[Donald]

Originally Posted By: JTK
Donald, it's not bad if the alum. flex hose doesn't have to do drastic bends. Interesting though, I've never seen a side exhaust dryer.


Its an old GE dryer. I'd guess 20 years old. Still runs. It measures the clothes dryness by measuring the exhaust vs the newer way of having a sensor in the drum.

I bought a "close" elbow so I can get the dryer back as far as possible.

 

[Doog]

I have 4 feet of flex hose on my dryer so I can pull it away from the wall to clean behind it. It is attached to the dryer and rigid pipe with SS worm gear clamps I bought at AAP. I cranked them on there about 5 years ago. The GE dryer tech came to do a warranty repair and took a photo with his phone. They don't come off.