Indoor dryer vents: A brief discussion
The technological advancement has totally changed the scenario of global world. The want of comfort in all fields of life and nature to uncover the secrets of nature has taken the man to this advance step of progress. Could you ever think a few decades back to have the unclean clothing washed and more interestingly dried in a few moments? Yes, scientific researchers have invented such gadgets and are commercially available for domestic use. These gadgets are known as auto clothing washing machine, clothing dryer (available gas fuel based as well as electric powered) and outdoor & indoor dryer vents.
The subject of the article restricts, however it is worth exploring a bit about clothing dryer, ahead of proceeding to indoor dryer vent review. Whether the dryer is gas fuel based or electric power based the basic principle behind operation is to blow hot air on the wet attires. This hot air heats the water soaked in the clothing, thus by natural law heated water is evaporated and clothes are found dried out. The used hot air gets highly humidified and is disposed out of the clothing dryer. If the dryer is under operation in outdoor area, it is fine, but in case of indoors the hot and moistened air that also contains contamination of chemicals used for cleansing the attire cause the raised indoor temperature and also invites many health ailments for the residents. Thus for indoor use of dryer, this disposed air alternatively, needs to be vented out using any of indoor dryer vents dryer vent.
Now having a little know how regarding dryer vent, we should proceed for the subject matter i.e. indoor dryer vent review. Now we are mainly focused to vent out or purify the discarded air expected from dryer, which is dreadful for human well being. There are just a couple of options, firstly if residing open area zone, this air can be directly thrown out to open atmosphere using a proper hose pipe through a small opening or window with a small outdoor unit connected to hose pipe and mounted outside. Secondly, we can use an indoor equipment to purify the contaminated air to some extent and re-circulate in the room. This combination of indoor devices is named as indoor dryer vent.
There are some positive aspects also, concerning this. Unlike, outdoor dryer vent, the indoor device is environment friendly as harmful elements are captured in the purifier device itself, and do not pollute the valuable environment. At the same time, initial installation cost of indoor dryer vent is quite lesser than that of the outdoor unit.
There are three types of these purifier units, popularly obtainable at stores. First two are economical and have a middling quality of result. The first one bears a filter attachment connected venting hose pipe, that traps the lint as well the moisture to some extent and releases the filtered air out in the room. The other one contains a water filled container as filter attachment. The impurities, lint are arrested in the water for sure plus humidity and heat is also contained to some level. Both these require general maintenance as well as occasional hose pipe cleaning using dryer vent brush.
The last, most effective and environment friendly unit is the costlier among the all these. This device has a condenser that traps all adulterations plus condenses the moisture and stores in form of water in a tank provided. This water is then drained away, using a pump. In this case the conditioned air is in purer form, from other two types of indoor dryer vents.