Dryer vents with screens are a hazard.
Flat roof dryer vents.
Dryer vents should always be vented through the side of the house and not vented through the roof and ideally the exit should be fairly close to the ground.
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Dryerjacks are the first roof vents designed to meet the more stringent venting requirements of dryer exhaust systems.
The new dryerjack is engineered specifically for dryers.
Unlike the vents shown above left the dryerjack affects airflow by less than 01 water column inches of pressure.
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The bk roof vent is designed for use with bathroom or kitchen venting systems.
These terminals need to be cleaned on a regular basis to prevent lint buildup.
1 inch up to 14 inches.
Per building codes there is no screen in this vent as it is exclusively designed for clothes dryers.
Keeping a clean dryer vent is much easier when you can safely reach the exit.
Considering that back pressure higher than 6 wci is generally recognized as inefficient you can see that venting through the roof with non dryer specific vents is immediately problematic.
These vents come with a damper to prevent backdraft and removable screen and with or without a stem for flex or hard pipe connections.
The vent you found is not the best for venting the dryer as it is hard to clean hard to see if it needs cleaning and has lots of obstacles that promote lint build up.
Until now however there were no roof terminations that met all of the stringent dryer venting requirements.
Active ventilation 4 in.
This one had 1 8 screen too.
Combustion air intakes for furnaces can only have 1 4 minimum so they don t clog and this was for a dryer which is only supposed to have a flapper no screen.
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For flat roofs with the potential of more than 2 inches of flooding due to scuppers or drains getting clogged a vertically extended vent will be required.
This medium sized galvalume roof cap has a plate flange size of 12 wide x 12 and the structure is 6 wide x 8 and about 9 high.
The jv roof vent is for use on any roofing material.
I finally replaced an old dryer vent that the roofer installed on a re roof job years ago.
It has a 4 12 inch diameter collar that excepts typical residential dryer exhaust conduit.
Shorter duct runs created by venting the dryer straight through the roof can improve drying efficiency and lessen lint buildup.
Everything from flat pitch roof flashing up to 12 12 pitch.
