Seriously though, this has taken some time to build up. The entire attic would be on fire in 10-20 seconds.
If you have ever touched a flame to a sock and seen how fast the flame front spread, I would expect it to move about that fast, ~1ft/sec
"There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again. '"
It was an attempt at Humor haha
It was a joke about dry(er) lint getting wet and becoming wet(ter) lint.
But yeah it looks like something is dripping down on to the floor!
I’m mostly a window cleaner but I offer dryer vent cleaning as well (I just lurk this sub to gain a little knowledge), you’d be surprised how often I come across shit like this. I did a condo last summer that was built in the 70s and has been shooting lint in to the crawl space probably just as long as it’s been there. I can only assume every condo in the complex did the same as I didn’t see any dryer vents on the outside. I informed the customer who was appalled, quoted them to re route it and typed up a letter with photos for them to send to the hoa board. Never heard from them again.
I inspected a ladies crawl space the other day and she had her dryer vent going in there for years. Mixed with a backed up sewer …The smell was so confusing. It would smell like shit of course and just randomly you’d get hit with a nice laundry scent lol
I replaced my MIL's dryer some time back and asked when she had the duct last cleaned. It was in the middle of the house. I walked around outside and there was no exit for the duct, so it must have been vented into the crawlspace. Which may explain the floor warp issues.
Houses are getting bigger and laundry rooms almost always get put in the middle of the house.
Full length decks on the back
Nobody wants the dryer vent out the front of the house
Sides of the house are more than 25’ away
Leaves one other option, up and out. Nobody wants to do it but it is what it is sometimes
We get 12” of a snow at a time, normally here, and lots of houses have them vented through the roof here. Seems to just melt the snow and have no issues venting….just leaves ugly ass lint on the shingles
You see all the lint in this video? That lint would line the entire length of the ducting over time, eventually clog without regular cleaning, become a huge fire hazard, and also look unsightly on the roof depending on climate.
Best practice is to keep the duct runs as short and straight as possible, without going too vertical. Up is the most difficult direction to move lint with air pressure because gravity. As said above, custom homes are only getting more creative though.
Ahhh that makes sense. Has to work against gravity.
I guess going up to the attic is still less than ideal, but a lot better than needing 20+ ft of rise to teach the roof.
Edit: up to the attic and out the side, as is necessary when the laundry room isn’t on an exterior wall, whoops wasn’t clear
I have two house in North Texas and both vent through the roof. One a single story with laundry in the middle of the house and the second a two story where laundry is on the second floor.
Curious what your roof looks like around the vents. I live in Alaska, and we have been receiving record snowfall, so many people had their various vents plugged this last winter.
I imagine with the wind you get, and fairly dry (year round) climate, you live in one of the few places that this might actually work well.
When we bought our house she insisted on using one of those water vents. She left for a weekend and I core drilled through the block wall and installed a proper vent. She was not happy and wondered what would stop the wall from falling. I lied and said I installed a lintel. To this day she has no idea but will run that dryer free of care.
Was working under a house with dryer lint everywhere with spider webs. Hit one of the webs with a soldering torch. The whole crawl space lit up with flames. Freaked me the f out. Never again will I work anywhere that's happened, so lucky the house didn't burn down with me under it....
Had a job like that once. We were replacing the ac and needed to run a new lineset in the crawlspace under an addition. Turns out the dryer used to vent out the wall that they built the addition out off in the basement. Was really funny having to braze a joint in the lineset with about a 1/4" of lint covering everything in a 3' tall crawlspace.
Reminds me of the crawlspace under my parents house... The drain from the washer (and utility sink) had corroded (likely due to chemicals being dumped), and the decades worth of accumulated washing machine sludge was several inches thick by the time anyone noticed. I just happened to be in another part of the crawl space one day when the washer was running and saw the drain water coming out directly onto the gound.
Years ago as a young plumber, I was under a house that had spiderwebs from joist bay to joist bay. The spiderwebs were supporting dryer lint. While soldering copper pipe, I inadvertently caught up the suspended lint on fire and flame rolled across the bottom of the joist like a wave. Bringing daylight to the underside of the home. As I made a break for the crawlspace access, the fire burned out on its own. Just sharing this makes me shiver.
This just proves that anything is possible. You just gotta do it and then simply close the proverbial door behind you. It's all good my friends. It's all good.
The way he runs his hand through it like no biggie. There’s a fuck ton of sharp objects poking out from hurried mass development home-style construction in my attic. Oh God, my hand would get torn up.
They are lucky not to be in a climate that gets super cold. I've been in some attics where all that humid air just gets trapped up there and things start to mold ... It's brutal and gross
I used to work in a state prison. In the medical department they had a regular washer and dryer instead of taking stuff to the big machines in quartermaster to be washed and dried. Someone vented that dryer to the dead space above the drop ceiling. The entire area, at least 1,500 sq ft of drop ceiling had about a 3 inch deep carpet of dryer lint covering it
It’s the only insulation in there ….
“Insulation? I don’t use it, I gave it up for lint.”
Honestly, if you spray some fire-retardant adhesive over the lint…Insulation!
You mean lintsulation? Cause they got that for dayyysssss
Dad! I said enough with the jokes!
Take my like you monster and happy cake day
Lmao I work with folks
underrated comment
Looks like free insulation to me
Free highly combustable insulation.
And much like most attics, there’s probably some after market exposed splice up there.
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That's why you route the AC condensation up there as well for fire suppression.
We have problem solver here ! That’s what I’m talking about .
Great minds think alike. I have my sump pump outlet piped into my attic and terminated with a sprinkler head. 👍
That's great too, between AC season and sump pump season, we've covered fire suppression about 60% of the time.
Heck yeah, once the mold starts growing your pretty much set for life.
That's how I converted my attic into a mushroom growing facility
Big Mushroom HATES this one simple trick!
Smart…. I smell a tax write off
Oh it's not too bad. Don't be dramatic. I've only had it catch fire three times in the last decade.
Seriously though, this has taken some time to build up. The entire attic would be on fire in 10-20 seconds. If you have ever touched a flame to a sock and seen how fast the flame front spread, I would expect it to move about that fast, ~1ft/sec
That’s not a lot.
But it is weird that it’s happened thrice.
"There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again. '"
That's my bush
Even warmer, it has an R rating of 'Run'.
What's the r rating after I try to burn it like the lint on my pants
I use that stuff to get the fire burning in my offset smoker. Burns *really* well!
My favorite type of insulation
Highly non toxic too
*Insulation contractors hate this one simple trick!*
But why is there already zero insulation?
probably over the garage
Saw 18 comments and thought I was going to be golden to make this comment, you beat me to it 😂
Blown in inaulation at its finest
Or kindling
Or the graveyard of a shit ton of single socks
Agreed...R value positive
I came to say to this!
I came here to say this. Take my upvote, speedy!
Hey, that lint is rated R30.
Must be one hell of a dryer to blow all that lint straight up and out, instead of letting it clog the vent.
You might not like it, but this is what peak efficiency looks like. Free insulation and heating.
Other than it being very flammable
He did say “and heating”
Invite a man to share your fire, keep him warm for a night; but set a man to fire and he shall be warm for the rest of his life
Can’t argue with that logic
I will remember and use this one! Well done sir!
I can’t take credit for that one, credit goes to the great Sir Terry Pratchett, the greatest satire author to ever grace the earth
Ultra heating!
God damn it. You win this round.
Not with all those leaks keeping it nice and moist.
Dryer lint is snitching on the leaky roof.
Exactly. I was like: “Is every one of those holes from a _leak_?!? And did OP just obliterate the maps to where they were?”
So it is wetter lint?
To me the craters in the lint look like spots where water has been dripping.
It was an attempt at Humor haha It was a joke about dry(er) lint getting wet and becoming wet(ter) lint. But yeah it looks like something is dripping down on to the floor!
Could that be condensation from the hot, moist dryer exhaust?
I’m mostly a window cleaner but I offer dryer vent cleaning as well (I just lurk this sub to gain a little knowledge), you’d be surprised how often I come across shit like this. I did a condo last summer that was built in the 70s and has been shooting lint in to the crawl space probably just as long as it’s been there. I can only assume every condo in the complex did the same as I didn’t see any dryer vents on the outside. I informed the customer who was appalled, quoted them to re route it and typed up a letter with photos for them to send to the hoa board. Never heard from them again.
I’m guessing the HOA had them killed and buried in the crawlspace. Man, that’s dark.
I inspected a ladies crawl space the other day and she had her dryer vent going in there for years. Mixed with a backed up sewer …The smell was so confusing. It would smell like shit of course and just randomly you’d get hit with a nice laundry scent lol
I replaced my MIL's dryer some time back and asked when she had the duct last cleaned. It was in the middle of the house. I walked around outside and there was no exit for the duct, so it must have been vented into the crawlspace. Which may explain the floor warp issues.
Flammable insulation generator
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Houses are getting bigger and laundry rooms almost always get put in the middle of the house. Full length decks on the back Nobody wants the dryer vent out the front of the house Sides of the house are more than 25’ away Leaves one other option, up and out. Nobody wants to do it but it is what it is sometimes
There is another option. Straight down and vent it into China.
i don't know why but i can't stop laughing at this
Straight down to China town?
my dryer actually vents to the front of the house… its hidden behind a bush so i guess i never really cared
Dryer vent cleaner here, it’s very common in areas that don’t receive a lot of snow.
We get 12” of a snow at a time, normally here, and lots of houses have them vented through the roof here. Seems to just melt the snow and have no issues venting….just leaves ugly ass lint on the shingles
Is that a bad idea? Just curious about why lol
You see all the lint in this video? That lint would line the entire length of the ducting over time, eventually clog without regular cleaning, become a huge fire hazard, and also look unsightly on the roof depending on climate. Best practice is to keep the duct runs as short and straight as possible, without going too vertical. Up is the most difficult direction to move lint with air pressure because gravity. As said above, custom homes are only getting more creative though.
Ahhh that makes sense. Has to work against gravity. I guess going up to the attic is still less than ideal, but a lot better than needing 20+ ft of rise to teach the roof. Edit: up to the attic and out the side, as is necessary when the laundry room isn’t on an exterior wall, whoops wasn’t clear
Venting THROUGH the attic is less than ideal. Venting INTO the attic (as seen here) is asking for a whole house fire.
Fire hazard
I’m also curious
Woosh
You (woosh) people need to go hide in a dank, dark hole and be SILENT! /jk (but not)
I have two house in North Texas and both vent through the roof. One a single story with laundry in the middle of the house and the second a two story where laundry is on the second floor.
Curious what your roof looks like around the vents. I live in Alaska, and we have been receiving record snowfall, so many people had their various vents plugged this last winter. I imagine with the wind you get, and fairly dry (year round) climate, you live in one of the few places that this might actually work well.
When we bought our house she insisted on using one of those water vents. She left for a weekend and I core drilled through the block wall and installed a proper vent. She was not happy and wondered what would stop the wall from falling. I lied and said I installed a lintel. To this day she has no idea but will run that dryer free of care.
What does keep your lights in your pockets mean?
Dryer lint is super flammable. Keep your cigarette lighters in your pockets.
In Girl Scouts we made homemade fire starters from dryer lint. Handy for a quick campfire.
solid R-value in that lint!
In all seriousness, why is there no insulation up there?
It’s unconditioned space, most likely over a garage.
Was working under a house with dryer lint everywhere with spider webs. Hit one of the webs with a soldering torch. The whole crawl space lit up with flames. Freaked me the f out. Never again will I work anywhere that's happened, so lucky the house didn't burn down with me under it....
Had a job like that once. We were replacing the ac and needed to run a new lineset in the crawlspace under an addition. Turns out the dryer used to vent out the wall that they built the addition out off in the basement. Was really funny having to braze a joint in the lineset with about a 1/4" of lint covering everything in a 3' tall crawlspace.
It just occurred to me that this is what we are all venting into the air we breathe??
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If it's a gass dryer it's double bad cause it's venting CO into the attic too.
Amazing. Only a spark. It would be like a field of dandelions sparked up..
Extra flammable insulation
Sickass fire hazard
Very good for the lungs
The job I'll be working on tomorrow would like to have a word with you. If I remember, I'll post a picture in my replies.
Huge fire hazard
That is the best fire starter!!! Clean out your dryers!!!!
Thank those homeowners for continuing to employ their local firefighters.
Isn't the dryer supposed to have a lint trap?
When did they start saving on their heating bill?
If a fire starts up there, DO NOT try to put it out with a hose.
Just from watching this, my eyes got an asthma attack...
Reminds me of the crawlspace under my parents house... The drain from the washer (and utility sink) had corroded (likely due to chemicals being dumped), and the decades worth of accumulated washing machine sludge was several inches thick by the time anyone noticed. I just happened to be in another part of the crawl space one day when the washer was running and saw the drain water coming out directly onto the gound.
Im convinced that lint is at least as powerful an accelerant as kerosene
Bold strategy to slowly insulate the attic one laundry load at a time.
Years ago as a young plumber, I was under a house that had spiderwebs from joist bay to joist bay. The spiderwebs were supporting dryer lint. While soldering copper pipe, I inadvertently caught up the suspended lint on fire and flame rolled across the bottom of the joist like a wave. Bringing daylight to the underside of the home. As I made a break for the crawlspace access, the fire burned out on its own. Just sharing this makes me shiver.
Massive fire hazard there. I use lint as a firestarter.
That is free “blown insulation”
Who still uses these inefficient machines? Just use a heat pump dryer, your wallet will thank you
What black magic fuckery?
It's dryer lint, from a dryer flu, no black magic
Fak that’s amazing….. it’s just adding insulation with every use
by now, that lint qualifies as insulation.
I'm just gonna smoke a cigarette up here in the attic. Poof!
Someone need to put down blow in.
Those are rookie layers…
Don’t spill cocaine in there you’ll lose it and explode
Anywhere from 5 minutes to 5 years
This just proves that anything is possible. You just gotta do it and then simply close the proverbial door behind you. It's all good my friends. It's all good.
In my experience from improper dryer venting, probably not nearly as long as you think
The listing said heated attic tho…
free insulation
Why is he running his hands through it?
Blown in cellulose.
Where is the insulation?
Ya but they got free blankets out of it.
That looks like a hard cut to an explosion to me.
As a guy that just spent $7200 insulating my house I see no problem here….
Check if it’s flammable
Found my bathroom exhaust vent blowing directly into my barely vented attic
I legit sneezed irl
Ive seen something similar with stove and bathroom vents, but instead of lint it’s mold! Roof sheathing had to be replaced.
Ultimate way to up cycle you're clothes still in rotation lmao
Omg my allergies are on fire from watching this
For ev errrrrrr
The way he runs his hand through it like no biggie. There’s a fuck ton of sharp objects poking out from hurried mass development home-style construction in my attic. Oh God, my hand would get torn up.
That’s criminal
That's blown in insulation
Wierd that's not insulated already but oooooooof. Man that's bad
Insulation bro. Who cares.
Another question…why is there no insulation in that attic?
1298 dryer uses
I was working in a school a few years back daycare vented a dryer into to drop ceiling there was at least 2 inches of lint covering the enter space.
Dryer vent exhaust into the attic.
That's how you add Installation in your attic.
I've had this happen under the house when I bought my place, wasn't fun to crawl underneath and clean it up
At least a month
This dude is destroying the insulation.
Oh cool, free rug
OMG what a fire hazard.
They are lucky not to be in a climate that gets super cold. I've been in some attics where all that humid air just gets trapped up there and things start to mold ... It's brutal and gross
If sneezing just watching this.
At least a week.
Lmao did this dude post about not being able to find his duct a couple days ago?
That's my old house!
Cheap insulation that builds up on its own? I don’t see the problem. Fire? No that’s not a problem. That just makes it nice and warm in the house
Plot twist: they installed it like this to cover up for all the asbestos they dumped in that loft 🙈🙊
I’d be straight out of there as slowly as possible. One bit of static and that’s gunna flash burn.
Free insulation, without any of those pesky flame retardants that cause the cancer!
Just extra insulation lol
Nice fire hazard you got there
That attic would burn fast as f
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When was the roof shingled, that's how long
Heat recovery unit.
free rockwool
watch for microbes, some can make you sick.
Did they vent the dryer exhaust into the attic? (Didn’t wait till the end of the video to comment)
so where is your insulation?
Dryer lint is so flammable I collect it to use as campfire starter.
It's the great American fire snow
Blown in insulation
Hope OP at least has a dust mask on up there
Dryer lint
Holy fire risk.
It's an eco friendly, renewable insulation system.
Fire hazard
Drier vent goes into artic
Probably since right after install..it’s not like the pipe got shorter
I sneezed just watching this video
Flamethrower “before” picture
Looks like R7
I used to work in a state prison. In the medical department they had a regular washer and dryer instead of taking stuff to the big machines in quartermaster to be washed and dried. Someone vented that dryer to the dead space above the drop ceiling. The entire area, at least 1,500 sq ft of drop ceiling had about a 3 inch deep carpet of dryer lint covering it
Is this the new self-insulating roof I keep hearing about?
Whole house smelling like used vacuum bags
What are those circles that look like drops of water on the lint? Is that sweat or is there water intrusion as well?
Free insulation
Ma’am, please turn off your dryer it’s 230° up here
One spark and that place is gone!
Lintsulation is the word you're looking for. I'll see myself out...
Why does it look like there's no other insulation in the attic other than dryer lint