Gotta' rant for a minute

Build a box with screens & filters
Run the electric dryer vent in it in the winter.
A Humidifier & no wasted heat .
I did it with the electric, then NG showed up

 

We use one of those new fancy clothes rack

 

That's what we do. There is no way I'm paying to heat air and the blow it out of my house! Ain't happening no way no how!!

 

I do my own laundry, I've got a clothes line strung from the joists in the basement, the females refuse to air dry their clothes.

 

I found myself doing things like that on my job. Looked all through my pockets and then walked over to my truck looking for my pen. I was holding it in my mouth...bad habit anyway.

 

DaveG… Yikes… no clothes dryer! That would not go over well in my house… Here's a couple ideas. Dryer vent hoses in basements (could do it anywhere, as long as there's room) can be routed inside, shooting straight down, into a bucket half full of water. Add a little screening around the vent hose at the top of the bucket, to filter air coming back up and out of the bucket. The water catches most, if not all of the lint… you catch all of the heat. In the winter, when we like having more humidity in the air, when we take a shower, we put a small ceramic elec heater on the bathroom floor (ceiling vent is sealed up), right where the door is open about 6". We point the heater into the bathroom, and the back of the heater draws air from the hallway floor. It does good things… heats the bathroom a little… removes the humid air from the bathroom (mirror doesn't fog up) as it is forced out over the top of the heater and out the door to the hall… keeps the heat inside instead of shooting it outside. During the summer… we open a window… now, back to our regular scheduled program…

 

Thought about doing something like that but would be limited on what could fit. Door to attic is about 22x24 or so. Then with all the webs of the trusses, it would be really tough to build some kind of false floor.
The insulation in my attic is about 18-20" thick, R60.

 

They make an insulated Igloo shaped cover to go over attack ladders