How To Fill A Dryer Vent Hole

Its about 8 at the widest point while the vent is 4.

How to fill a dryer vent hole. I then cover the outside with some sort of aluminum plate or plywood. With one home dead center in the triangle. Without a vent hose attached to your dryer lint can build up in your clothes dryer over time and cause efficiency and safety issues.

Move the tip of the caulk all the way around the dryer vent tube. Place the tip of the tube of caulk against the space between the dryer vent and the dryer vent opening. Drilling or cutting a 4 14-inch hole through the.

Then skim over that with course filler. Id wedge something like expanded polystyrene into it. Also if its a cavity wall do something to stop tons of foam escaping into the cavity as you fill the hole.

A simple piece of wood cut to size will fill the hole. Patch up any exterior material such as siding to. Slowly depress the trigger on the caulk gun allowing a bead of caulk to flow around the dryer vent tube where the dryer vent intersects with the dryer vent opening.

Installing new dryer vent but the hole that previous owners made in the concrete block wall is too big. Caulk around any gaps. I believe the gist of it is that I fill the hole with insulation and put some drywall on the inside.

I would propose cutting a circle of rigid foam to plug the hole sealing the circle in place with canned foam. My dryer vents out through the roof so I want to close and seal this opening especially before it gets really cold. Make sure you block off the inside of the external vent or remove it temporarily so it doesnt fill with foam.