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| If worse comes to worse, send me a list of the parts needed, and I can go menards and pick them up, then ship them to you.
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| quote: Originally posted by was0311:
Check to make sure it wasn't a 4" round stepped on to make it oval.
You can kill me after you kill that installed a 5" oval. Likely installed to get through stud space, never heard of such a thing.
Ha! No, this is actually manufactured like that. I've tried ovalizing the flexible aluminum duct but it won't get big enough and rips apart. This is the craziest thing I've seen. If they are going to make them this way, an adapter should be available at Home Depot or someplace similar. Floyd - that product on Amazon is the wrong size. |
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| Measure the outside width and height of the oval.
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|  Okay, man... Don't panic. We can make this work. To get your 4" round dryer tubing to fit the 5" oval vent, I'll just need a sleeve cut from a spacesuit, 3 and a half meters of coolant tubing, a roll of duct tape, two cellophane wrappers from meal packets, and the cardboard cover from your prelaunch checklist notebook. The instructions will be in 14 parts. Got something to write with? |
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| Home Depot carries oval to round 90* adapters. Had to do that & a sliding super slim fit box to get our dryer to fit.
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| quote: Originally posted by P250UA5:
Home Depot carries oval to round 90* adapters. Had to do that & a sliding super slim fit box to get our dryer to fit.
There's quite the controversy concerning Home Depot. They list that item on their website but say that it is not sold online nor can they ship to a store. Apparently, only a few select stores carry them and there isn't one within 100 miles of my location. |
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| Found a bunch of stuff like that at Lowes recently as well. quote: Originally posted by P250UA5:
Home Depot carries oval to round 90* adapters. Had to do that & a sliding super slim fit box to get our dryer to fit.
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| | | Posts: 3625 | Location: Cary, NC | Registered: February 26, 2013 |
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| your dryer is 4 inch round coming out the back , right? what kind of wall are you going through? block? brick? siding and ply wood? poured concrete ?
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| Just get any metal 5"x 4" duct elbow and bend the 5" part to fit.....that sheet metal bends really easy. |
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