Moving my clothes dryer

June 7th, 2007 by Kenric

I spent the morning mountain biking at Estrella Mountain Regional Park. It was a sunny 88 degree day, perfect. With the news that SFH#1 will close on Monday (fingers crossed) I went to SFH#1 to move out my remaining things. Since the buyer did not ask for the washer or dryer, I thought about selling the pair on craigslist. But while I was there, I decided to move my washer & dryer from SFH#1 to my current house. I was planning on taking 2 trips but I found out that my Toyota 4 Runner can carry both a washer and dryer in the back! Who would have knew?

My current house already has a washer & dryer, so I why would I go through all that trouble to move them over? It’s because the dryer at my new house sucks, it takes forever to dry a load.

Here is a picture of the dryer inside from the current house. Notice the metal hole thing on the left side. This is where the hot air is blown into the tumbler. On the right side is where the hot air exits the dryer and goes to the vent. In theory, your hot air can go from the left to right without ever touching your clothes.

Now look below at my dryer from SFH#1. Notice a big difference in something? The surface area where the hot air comes into the tumbler is massive compared to the other dryer. You get a huge uniform stream of hot air going into the tumbler. The hot air exits through the front door and out through the bottom. Thats why your lint trap is under your door on these designs. In this design the hot air is forced to go through your clothes from back to front. It’s no wonder this dryer drys so much faster than the other.

I have never looked at the inside of a dryer or even thought about their internal design before buying one. I usually go off the price tag and its list of features. The surface area of the metal holes things is never mentioned in its specifications. So if you are buying a new dryer, understand its design and take a look inside at the size of the metal hole things (I have no idea what it’s called). If you want further information on how a clothes dryer works, go to how stuff works, it’s a great site.

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