Super-Efficient Dryer Vent Saves You up to 10% on Energy Costs
by Northern Tool and Equipment
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Super-Efficient Dryer Vent Saves You up to 10% on Energy Costs
Customer Review: good product at a good price
Summary: 4 Stars
Easy to install and good price and good product. I really like the company's customer service as I contacted them about this product.Customer Review: The Bunny !!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Short Story, Rabbit went down dryer vent,died in dryer,at the height of decomposing we found out where the horrible smell was coming from, pulled the dryer away from the wall & there it was,tryed to clean up everything on the spot, BIG MISTAKE!!!! Make a long story short, new dryer #545.00 odor control $150.00 & a bunch of aggravation. We was not going to put the same cheap vent in again, Oh yea i forgot that everything we touched with the rubber gloves we had to throw out so we are close to a $1000.00 worth of damage.YOU CANT GET THAT SMELL OUT,came across this product, this was exactly what i was looking for,so if your vent sits close to the ground like ours, this is a great product to put in,& also the customer service is great to.Customer Review: Fantastic, Works fantastic.
Summary: 5 Stars
My dryer is in our bathroom and we always had problems keeping the cold air from coming back through our dryer vent, this product is fantastic, it actually worked. I was amazed at how simple it is and why I had not looked into something like this before. I have checked it several times being concerned about lint buildup and getting hung up but no problem. Why this product is not more available is beyond me. The other pieces of junk the home improvement stores sell should be banned. In a era of saving valuable energy this is a must have.Customer Review: Great Product
Summary: 5 Stars
My dryer vent was jammed open letting precious heat out and small critters in. The man at the local Lowes store showed me cheap replacement vents similar to what I had, but he told me his wife had bought a more efficient but more expensive device online. I found the product and ordered it. It arrived shortly and I installed it myself. It was easy and I am all thumbs. It works just great. However it is larger than the one I removed, so that could be a problem if you are working with limited space.Customer Review: clothes dryer vent
Summary: 3 Stars
The unit arrived in a timely fashion and was well packed for safe transport. Upon inspection I found that the unit was defective in design and manufacture since the "floating cap" would jam and not "float" and I quickly realized that the unit would not work as intended unless I made some functional modifications. Without making these changes the unit would in fact function far worse than the existing aluminum flap which I was replacing. This unit is designed to "float" or lift an internal vent cap unit by exhaust air pressure when the dryer is turned on. The floating vent cap is designed to be guided by vertical plastic fins which function to center the floating vent cap and to guide the cap to a close over the dryer vent opening when the dryer is turned off. The problem was that plastic guide fins were far too tight against the cap and the cap would not "float". Part of the problem was caused by the vent cap unit itself which should have been round but in fact was mis-shapped and was slightly out of round. The plastic cap unit was manufactured with a thin wall and I suspect that it became mis-shaped during the manufacturing process from being handled before it had completely cooled off and become set in shape. The cap unit should have been manufactured with some reinforement via a return or thickening at it's base to increase it's rigidity and help maintain a round shape but this was not the case. I concluded that getting a replacement unit from the vendor would likely not resolve the issues since these problems were essentially flaws related to the original design and manufacturing process. I resolved both issues myself however by using a dremmel tool to shave about a 0.25" off the thickness of the guide fins thereby increasing the clearance between the gude fins and the vent cap and by inserting a piece of rigid foam insulation inside the base of the cap unit to help the cap stay round and to somewhat increase its weight and assist it in closing. The unit now functions perfectly as intended. The cap no longer jams and it lifts effortlessly with air pressure when the dryer is on and seats itself properly when the dryer is off. I now have a warm dryer, warm laundy room and look forward to energy savings as well. I would say that this unit did not function as advertised out of the box. It's an excellent idea however and with the above modifications completed, the unit works very well indeed!