Product review (5 stars): Just What I Needed
I had just moved into this wonderful house, but as much as we love it, it is a "used" home which means that there are a couple of previous owner things that you wished they had done differently. In this case, the dryer vent. I believe that it was moved at some point so that in tead of being directly in back of the dryer, it's on the side of the wall in back of the dryer. Well, the washer and dryer was not included in the purchase so after the new one was delivered, they said that they wouldn't hook up the dryer vent using the previous vent hose. Okay, no big deal, I'll go get one and do it. The old one was flexible PVC and considered a fire hazard for electric dryers anyway. Off  to Lowes and $25.00 later, I have a somewhat flexible and very rigid metal vent hose, the only one that they sell. I quickly find that with the dryer outlet and the angle that I must do to get it to the vent is not going to be easy. An hour and some later, it's all attached. I'm not real happy with it and after pushing the dryer back into position and trying to see behind it, I cross my fingers and hope that it works.
  A month later  the hose  worked it's way partially off the vent, so I get on Amazon to look for an alternative, I quickly found this option and figure that this is just what I want even though it comes with those spring clamps instead of "real" hose clamps. No matter, I still have the ones from the failed hose. After this arrived, I noticed how flexible it was and how long or how compressed that it could be. It installed easily and the flexibility allowed it to be put on without the weird loop that the rigid one had to have. I ended up using the supplied spring clamps with it also. It's been over a month now with no issues at all. Very good product.