So there is a nest of birds in our dryer duct---in a really inconvenient place for us to pull the nest out and also in a place such as to fully block the air going out of the dryer (causing humidity in the dryer causing inefficiency and lackage of drying and probably also causing a fire hazard).
Well, laundry needed to be done again so we decided to investigate this nest of baby chirpies and of mother birdie's flapping wings. After pulling off the outside duct flap thing, which cracked so we'll have to replace it, we discovered that the nest is at the angle where the aluminum duct piping meets the wall before threading somewhere through the ceiling down to the shady pvc piping in our laundry room. I was all for getting a hanger and dragging the nest out because there wasn't any good way to blow it out or gently pull it out. Josh insisted that we run the dryer ducting from the dryer out the basement window and leave the birdies be for a few weeks and they'll leave on their own... He is the humane one.
So after loosening a very sealed/weather stripping around the window (from both sides) this is how I managed to finally be able to dry laundry again. I could have hung it up outside...but it can get windy and there was water drippage expected from the sky today.
Maybe I'll update in a few weeks if the baby birds managed to survive and find their way out of our dryer duct. I think that when we replace the outiside vent thingy, we will also try to get one that is much more bird proof.
Posted by Anna at May 23, 2009 06:50 PM | TrackBack