When you live in WI and the ambient is -20F with a wind chill of -40F, you'll know if those louvers are closing or not when you go into the laundry room. We set the thermostat back to 50F when we went away for Thanksgiving our first year in the house, and when we returned the water lines on the washer had frozen and split open in an interior (laundry) room.
That's why I went that route. It's also why we've always specified a floor drain in the laundry room in every house we've built. That foresight saved us from some serious water damage. -D ________________________________ From: Mercedes <mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com> on behalf of Allan Streib via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Sunday, December 5, 2021 1:18 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Allan Streib <astr...@fastmail.fm> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT mouse capital punishment I've seen those, but the one I got has plastic louvers that look a bit like venetian blinds. They seem to close up pretty well, of course that may change when the lint starts building up. It only protrudes an inch or so from the house. On Sun, Dec 5, 2021, at 9:27 AM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > For what it’s worth, when I lived north of the Mason-Dixon Line I used > a dryer vent that was made of plastic and shaped like a 90 degree elbow > facing up with a cap of sorts that was lifted off by the pressure of > the dryer blower. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
