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Only one way to find out, should be cleaned out as well as the vent on the outside at least every year anyway. If it's inside a wall it needs to be solid metal pipe.
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The vent pipe enters the wall cavity that seperates the toilet and the bedroom and rises all the way to the building's roof, where it exhausts.
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The dryer is relatively new and we dont have any long drying time issues. What do you mean "can I feel the exhaust at the outlet?"
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exhaust = air movement
outlet = "... the building's roof, where it exhausts."
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A relatively new dryer, will have a relatively lint free blower. So its moving more heat through the duct. So your wall is warmer then with the older dryer.
Borrow an IR camera, and check the wall to make sure its not a separated duct.
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My dryer has a lint filter, which we clean periodically.
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No lint screen stops all of the lint.
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I'd have to go on the roof to check the exhaust. Been from the looks of it, the heat it centralized on the wall so I have a feeling the pipe is still in tact and simply sitting against the drywall on my bedroom side.
In other words, I only feel heat on the wall roughly the length equivalent to the diameter of the exhaust pipe that's supposed to be in the wall.
In other words, I only feel heat on the wall roughly the length equivalent to the diameter of the exhaust pipe that's supposed to be in the wall.
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When we moved into the home we never had/used a dryer so we have no reference point. This is a new dryer, about a year old.
The screen filter on the dryer doesn't catch all of the lint. Being wet, it has a tendency to build up on the pipe. If you have a good leaf blower, disconnect the pipe at the wall. Run the blower about 2-3" back from the wall opening to build a venturi effect which increases the volume of air and run it about a full minute. Now go check the roof for lint. If you see a bunch of lint on the roof, do it again. If the piping is VERY hot as you say, this is a recognized fire hazard and house fires happen far too often. It's a good thing to add to your spring cleaning to blow the pipe out and also the dryer. Just reverse the air flow in the dryer with the blower and then turn it on to blow the loose junk out. I do mine every year and it takes about 30 minutes tops.
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If I use my leaf blower to blow into the wall pipe, can it possibly clogs the exhaust with lint further or will it all come out on the roof? I hope to not have to go on the roof because it's quite a project. It's a three story building (triplex).
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So your advice is that this is "normal" to have the wall hot like this?
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Being a 3 level building the chances of the vent looking similar to this one is really good because of condensation, in my opinion, and a leaf blower ain't gonna do it no matter how much we would like for it to be that simple.
I couldn't sleep very well until I found the truth about the condition internally and it wouldn't be very smart for someone to say, yes it is normal for the wall to be hot being there was never an actual temperature mentioned.
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I used my leaf blower to blow into the pipe for a minute like someone instructed. I then stopped. A couple of minutes later, I went again for another minute and the instant I started for the second time, a pack of leaves came out of the pipe into the toilet.
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