I got tired of it! We have four kids, and it seems like the washer/dryer run all the time. I would look outside and see all that heat/moisture getting vented outside.... so I decided to put it to good use, instead.

Here's what I did....

Take a 5 gallon bucket and use a 4" holesaw to drill a hole in the upper side of it.

Insert a 90º fitting into that hole.

Pour a gallon of water in the bottom to catch most of the lint. (add bleach if you want, to keep it from possibly getting funky)

Connect dryer hose.

Place furnace filter material over the top, and attach with big rubber band. (zip ties will also work)

Note, I didn't bother cleaning the bucket, as it will collect a bunch of lint, anyway. (and the wife was in a hurry to dry her clothes) LOL

It works great! There's a LOT of heat and moisture that comes out of the thing. The filter material may need cleaned/changed from time to time, but that's no big deal. Total investment... maybe $10. :D

Here's the pics!

Good Luck!





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Mike Burch
66 mustang real street
302 4-speed 289 heads
10.63 @ 129.3
http://www.mustangworks.com/cgi-bin/moi-display.cgi?220

Cool. Not to be a smartass, but this is what I use:

http://www.buyhardwaresupplies.com/?t=5&m=g1&itemNumber=42227

Under $10.00 bucks and you just flip a lever and it vents either inside for winter, or outside for the summer

Mike's has more a rustic style. I'm not sure the water is necessary though with that filter. You can use the pleated filter material too and it's a bit more efficient, but what you have there looks pretty good.

The water catches the majority of the lint. It might also catch some of the moisture, but there's still plenty that gets released. It condenses on the nearby windows, but dries off pretty fast.

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Mike Burch
66 mustang real street
302 4-speed 289 heads
10.63 @ 129.3
http://www.mustangworks.com/cgi-bin/moi-display.cgi?220

I've used the commercial ones for about 10 years, nothing like recycled heat

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You can't condemn the bad if you don't commend the good

Quote Tom
"Mike's has more a rustic style"
Tom, how in the heck is a plastic pail rustic?

Mike used ingenuity in the way he constructed his heat recovery system

I thought rustic a better adjective than redneck or hillbilly as those may have cast a bad light on even some of my heritage as a Pennsyltuckian.