How To Install A Dryer Vent Through Vinyl Siding

Then use a siding zipper and unzip the pieces of siding the dryer vent goes through and carefully nail it in place.

How to install a dryer vent through vinyl siding.

After the hole is completed get the dryer vent hood into place from the exterior of your home. There is a minimum of twelve inches above the block wall before you can place a hole in the vinyl for the vent. Insert the duct pipe on the vent hood through the hole. This video will show you how to install a new clothes dryer vent through a laundry room wall to the outside.

You may need to scribe and trim the edges to precisely fit your siding profile. Secure the dryer vent hood to the siding on the home s exterior using wood screws. Position the assembly so that the opening faces toward the ground. In this video i install a new metal range hood exhaust cap.

The first is to install a vinyl surface mounting block shown here that fits over the existing siding. There are two good ways to install dryer vents through vinyl siding. I replaced the old plastic one that. The put some flat aluminum stock under the bottom flange of the vent down onto the snaplock of the piece below so when water passes the trim ring it will run into the bottom flange of the lower piece and out the closest weepholes.