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Indoor Venting Stories . . .

Reprinted with permission from APPLIANCE SERVICE NEWS, January/February 1998 issue.

DRYER VENTS TO NOWHERE, FAMILY POINTS TO ILLNESS

A Virginia family claims that they were forced to flee for their health because a builder forgot to install a dryer vent in their Manasses home.

Because their dryer was connected to a duct line, Kyle and Brette Gillman assumed that the unit's exhaust was vented outside. But the duct ran only to a back wall, causing warm moist air, lint and dust expelled from the dryer to blow through the walls and floors surrounding the home's bedrooms.

Most affected were the Gillmans' three children, who were chronically ill with respiratory problems. They reportedly required 200 visits to doctors and emergency rooms during the seven years the family occupied the home. Their conditions would subside after taking antibiotics, only to recur later.

Only after Kyle discovered that the home had no outside dryer vent, prompting his tracing the duct through the house, was the problem uncovered. He found the inside of walls coated with lint. The warmth and moisture expelled from teh duct also promoted extensive growth of three types of mold associated with allergies and asthma, according to McLean, VA-based testing firm Alpha Environmental Management.

After the family fled the home, the children's health has made a dramatic improvement. The builder has refused to admit fault, but has offered to pay for repairs to the home.