Product review (4 stars): A neat little must have for winter, especially if you have a wood stove
This is an interesting invention. I like it so far, only reason for not a solid 5 stars is that it's difficult to get the top to snap on without fear of breaking the thing. I got this because the flapper on the outside of the house from the dryer vent was broke, and having a wood stove inside, that was a prime area for it to be sucking in winter air into the house, the laundry room would always be ~10 degrees cooler. Not anymore, this pumps the heat from the dryer back into the house. Come summertime, I'll hook it back up for it to blow outside. Just be careful, usually we have the laundry room door closed because of the noise, and doing that caused the walls to sweat from all the moisture of the clothes drying, have your furnace fan running or just a small fan going to blow the excess moisture out. With this indoor dryer vent, it's a win-win. No more cold drafts coming back in, or throwing hot air outside, and it's keeping the dry raw air from the wood stove at a nice humidity level, so we don't have to run the humidifier, drying our clothes now does the trick! Plus, now it smells like fresh clothes in the house too. If you really wanted, you could make an even a better contraption out of a 5 gallon bucket and some plumbing adapters, which I would think help catch all the dryer lint, this ProFlex is on the small side, so make sure it's half full of water, because even having water in it, it doesn't catch all of the dryer lint, only the majority of it. Overall, I'm happy I got this, took 5 minutes to install and there are more benefits to this than I thought there would be.