EDIT: I’ve attached a rough map of the situation. The laundry room is the little room in the middle. The red dot is where the dryer vents into the garage.
My house is weird. Built mid-1970s. Upper Midwest.
One of the weird/annoying things about my house is the fact that the clothes dryer vent opens up into the house’s attached garage rather than venting outside. This is an electric dryer, so the vent is just hot wet air – nothing like CO or anything.
Ideally, I’d like the dryer to vent to the outside and not turn my garage into a stagnant humid swamp every time I dry clothes (most days, actually, because I have many children). But the laundry room isn’t situated in a way that makes outside venting easy. It’s on the main level, right in the middle of the floorplan. No basement access, so I can’t add ductwork through the floor. No usable ceiling access either.
What options do I have to make this mess annoying? Add venting to the garage somehow?
Slightly more serious thought, what about installing your washer and dryer in the garage, making it a shorter run for ventilation and such?
Seconding this. Ive got both of mine in the garage with a tube running underneath the crawlspace under the kitchen and exhausting out of the back of the house.
My thoughts exactly - Move the washer/dryer, make the laundry room a closet or small office.
Thanks for the suggestion. Not going to work in our situation. At least not for a decade or more when I possibly have more time and money to make that kind of change to layout. (Also the garage is currently at capacity with all of the kid gear out there.)