Our washer and dryer are in the main bathroom. We always crack the window while running the dryer, winter or summer, to keep the unconditioned air in the bathroom (door closed), instead of pulling it all across the house. Anyone else do this or similar?
You don't have a dryer vent? It doesn't make any difference to us but it does warm the room up a little.
I have a dryer vent. I open the bathroom window for an outside air supply, to supply the dryer with air instead of the dryer sucking a vacuum on the house and pulling outside air in any crack and crevice it can find, then having cold/hot air being drawn through my house to the dryer.
Fox, your idea is good to at least not remove all of the house's heat… here's another way to save that heat. 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…
The humidity added is not necessarily a good thing. Friend did that... His wife was on some deal that the air was too dry, humidity makes you healthy, etc... Ended up destroying the drywall in the laundry room. Also windows would be nearly iced over... Cold and dry outside... Hot and humid inside is a great recipe for condensation in the walls.
Where are you from? I haven't heard it called a washroom in years. Seems the "correct" term is laundry room.
I think is has more to do with how old you are. My grand parents had a warshroom. A small building out in the yard where my grandma hand warshed clothes for 15 kids. Of course the older girls helped. Later when they got a washing machine, the indoor laundry room became the new warshroom. ETA: They still had a outhouse in use until they died in the late 90's along with an indoor crapper.
Dunno, I'm 30ish and we called it a washroom. Pretty much standard name. Few other things but can't think of them right now. It's nice to go back to Maine and I can speak normally!
