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?
Do not vent your dryer into your garage, unless you want a fine layer of lint on everything in there. My old house did that and I HATED it.
I’d be more worried about mold than lint.
Yeah, it’s not fun. I have a very rudimentary lint filter on the outside of the vent (in the garage) that helps somewhat.
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I’ve heard that the lint filters that are on the top of the drier and pull out upwards are supposedly much better than the kind that are just inside the door.