Dryer Vent hose options.

[joe_pinehill1]

Maybe a little off topic. Does anyone know if a dryer vent hose is available that has a spring force like a slinky toy? My dryer is in a laundry closet. The vent on the wall is a modern dryer wall box. When you attach a typical expanding hose to the wall vent and the dryer and push the dryer back into place, you end up with 5 ft or so of expanded hose from the bellows spring, that can kink and restrict flow as you push back. I was thinking it would nice to have a hose that the wire was more like a spring than a bellows. So when you pushed the dryer back, the hose pulls back into shape. Think of a slinky toy, you can expand to attach both ends when you are between the dryer and the wall, its mildly spring loaded so the hose contracts as you push the dryer back. Anyone know of a hose like this? Maybe I should file a patent disclosure.

The other lesson I learned, its a new house, the builder left a 4 inch duct at the wall. A male-male 4 inch union makes attaching the hose a lot easier to the all.

 

[tarbellb]

Maybe this would work? IMO better then the flexible duct work- LINK

2x90* telescoping duct

 

[BurtEggley]

smooth wall pipe is what I use. It has less restriction than the slinky or aluminum stuff. You may need to pull the washer out to get behind the dryer to attach smooth wall and clamp it. There are also systems that use magnets to hold the dryer to the smooth wall pipe. Slinky and aluminium stuff are lint traps. Example

 

[joe_pinehill1]

Maybe this would work? IMO better then the flexible duct work- LINK

2x90* telescoping duct

No, not in my application. Looks interesting, but how to you get between the dryer and wall to make the connections?

 

[Junkman]

smooth wall pipe is what I use. It has less restriction than the slinky or aluminum stuff. You may need to pull the washer out to get behind the dryer to attach smooth wall and clamp it. There are also systems that use magnets to hold the dryer to the smooth wall pipe. Slinky and aluminium stuff are lint traps. Example

The magnet works well, especially since he forgot to plug the dryer into the electrical socket, and will need to pull the dryer out again.

 

[joe_pinehill1]

smooth wall pipe is what I use. It has less restriction than the slinky or aluminum stuff. You may need to pull the washer out to get behind the dryer to attach smooth wall and clamp it. There are also systems that use magnets to hold the dryer to the smooth wall pipe. Slinky and aluminium stuff are lint traps. Example

That will to it, just need to add a few inches of straight with a 90 deg elbow to the duct in the wall box