Heartland Natural Energy Saving Dryer Vent Closure - Outside Heartland Dryer Vent Cover Adapts to Outdoor Siding

It’s the best design to seal off the elements and has no parts that can fail or not seat right to make a good air tight seal for letting cold air in during the winter and cold out in the summer to keep the bill lower.All homes should be using this type. My prior hime I sold came with tis design also and was the first time I’ve seen it and I liked it so much I search for one for my new home that had the standard tyke all homes have and it leaked Ari like a sieve and made my basement so cold. This was the perfect fox do that and I’m very happy now to not be cold down stairs and waste my money on heating to compensate a bad design that is not fail proof as this is.

Was replacing old dryer vent, and came across this one, a bit different but great design and does what it says. My goal was to keep outside air from coming in to the dryer, for us in TX, will be more noticeable for us in winter where it was most noticeable cold air in dryer. I will say it's rather large, so look at dimensions carefully. When I got it, comparatively, it's close to the size of a gallon of milk.The install was pretty easy, I did have to buy an 4" extension piece at the Depot, and it does sit away from my brick wall about a half inch (which I just siliconed up the gap nicely). The screws that came with it are pretty short, so did have some longer ones handy that I ended up using. I did use a drill to put the screws in, and did use an extension on my drill bit as getting the drill close to the lower curved pipe was in the way (wanted to get the screw in nice and square without stripping it).As it's an off-white color, it really stands out on the wall so I camo'd it using a red and burgundy Krylon spray paint for plastic (that came out okay but I'm no artist, wife was good with it so we're good) and I'll try to upload a picture so you can see it. I did see the comment on the lid flying off, and I can see where that might happen on a very windy day and it's not a lid you can find a replacement for (without buying a new unit) so I ended up putting a screw on the upper bracket to secure it a bit more in place (will try to put picture of this as well).Now just waiting for my neighbors to start asking what the hell that thing is on my wall... :)

Total success. I hate those metal louvered things, and big-surprise, they don't keep pests out of the house. A neighbor's dryer had stopped working entirely a few years back, upon his return from an extended inlaw visit (part of the reason I bought this, as you'll soon know). Due to his limited retirement income, I helped him pull the dryer out, and we poked around to see just what had the dryer belly-up. Maybe we two knuckleheads could fix it by accident? Anyway... Guess what will stop a clothes dryer? Answer: pecans - lots and lots of pecansA mouse (we guess) started putting back pecans for the winter, and by remaining steadily at it for we estimate the entire couple of weeks he was away, managed to get enough pecans into this dryer to jam up the whole works! I couldn't believe it, but true story.Anyway, fast-forward to me getting this vent thing and using it. It fits standard (4-in?) extension dryer pipe (solid kind, not flex/corrugated) that you would run through a wall, and sealed up perfectly just pushed in - you can seal further at your option, which I did. Then, you pop 6 holes in the side of your house, run in some screws, and voila! You have something I associate more closely to a "commercial-duty" vent solution than the old standard.Everything that's true about occluding pests is just as good for cold air. You don't stop it from being cold outside, but you stop cold air from pouring in through your dryer. In the right weather and prevailing wind, I could keep beer cold in my dryer (when not in use), to say nothing of the energy wasted by chilling that whole end of the house. This was probably far and away the largest inefficiency with my heating/cooling - you'll hear builders talk about 'the envelope'. Well, mine had a large gap in it, through which I was throwing money each month. Guaranteed, the first February alone, this paid for itself. I've never felt even a puff of moving air come back through this thing. It's still connected to the outside air, and not particularly insulated or anything, so it isn't magically warm ... but it's the air movement I wanted to stop, and that's what it did. I'm trying to guess just which way the wind would have to blow and swirl to defeat this design. My guess is, if that ever happens, you have bigger problems at that particular moment, considering shingles are held down on one end largely by gravity too...just sayin'.This is particularly important the closer to the ground or more easily accessible your vent location is. You cannot install this upside down or sideways though. The inner cap floats up and allows air to escape when the dryer is pushing air, and when the dryer is off, the cap floats back down and seals perfectly by being 100% in line with gravity (in contrast to a flapper that is based more on 'leaning' closed, rather than 'falling' closed). I say that to say this: critters know how to nose and pry their way into things, but don't generally posess thumbs and all the finer motor skills and intellectual prowess to arrive at "YOU MUST lift both sides of the cap straight up at the same time, or it'll bind in the housing". Truth be known, I've witnessed full many a human found wanting in that particular comprehension... Anyway, forced air does that nicely ... mice, not so much.BOILERPLATE: It beats the standard vent cap/flapper (which my neighbor had intact on his older home), and I dig it. It also doesn't rattle/flap in the wind, so it's the silent option. I generally go for the cheapest thing first if possible, but this seemed to be, and later proved to be so superior that I don't miss the extra duckets.

This was a replacement for an older one--the top broke due to limb or ? hitting it. Only replace the exterior portion that did not require removing the siding. Attractive appearance and keeps some of the cold air from entering through the vent.

I was getting a house ready to sell and the dryer vent of this style that we had installed over 15 years ago needed replaced as the duct tape holding it together was not pretty. I was not able to find the same manufacturer and this one was as close to the original as I could find. It was an easy installation as two of the holes matched up with the existing holes and we were able to drill through the housing easily to match up the other holes in the brick.This style helps to keep critters out of the dryer vent and it didn't run the risk of getting stuck open as the metal flap vents may do. My old one was taped together because it had a limb fall on it, not due to any defect. I also found t his style easier to keep clean which is very important with dryer vents and the risk of fire.