Ideas for electric clothes dryer that vents into attached garage - eviltoast

EDIT: I’ve attached a rough map of the situation. The laundry room is the little room in the middle. The red dot is where the dryer vents into the garage.

My house is weird. Built mid-1970s. Upper Midwest.

One of the weird/annoying things about my house is the fact that the clothes dryer vent opens up into the house’s attached garage rather than venting outside. This is an electric dryer, so the vent is just hot wet air – nothing like CO or anything.

Ideally, I’d like the dryer to vent to the outside and not turn my garage into a stagnant humid swamp every time I dry clothes (most days, actually, because I have many children). But the laundry room isn’t situated in a way that makes outside venting easy. It’s on the main level, right in the middle of the floorplan. No basement access, so I can’t add ductwork through the floor. No usable ceiling access either.

What options do I have to make this mess annoying? Add venting to the garage somehow?

  • KuchiKopi@lemmy.worldOP
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Oh crap, I can see how lousy my drawing is. I tried to keep it simple but it’s so simple that it’s misleading.

    North of this drawing is a whole bunch of additional rooms. It’s not an exterior wall.

    • Hazdaz@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Oh! That changes everything. So are there more rooms “north” of the garage? You can’t just add a 90 degree elbow and go through that wall?