Been wondering about this, though I'm not in a hurry to try it. Was just thinking to myself, what if a radiation cloud covered the city or some other such disaster where opening a window is a bad idea. Could the dryer vent handle smoke from say...a Solo Stove or other small wood stove? How about a propane stove? Any thoughts?
I could go into a long winded response here, explaining how chimneys, stove pipes, attic guards, and all the other components work to keep your house from burning down, but I can sum up a response this way...
If you don't want your house to burn down...no.
I know we have all heard about apartment preppers wanting to vent a stove out a window by cutting a hole in a piece of plywood and passing the stove pipe out through it, but this is one of the worst and most uninformed ideas I have ever come across in the prepper community.
If you do this you WILL CAUSE A FIRE.
Chimney gasses often reach 800 - 1000 degrees. Chimneys are designed to prevent materials close to them from bursting into flames, when installed properly.
Also, a chimney needs to reach 3 feet above the highest point of a roof line to draft properly...dryer vents are usually only a foot or two above ground level.
NO!
Great explanation !
Dryer vent won't handle the temperatures you need for a fire. You don't necessarily need to get above the roofline for a temporary pipe if the building itself isn't making a downdraft- even then you can possibly make it work with a "T" end cap.
You do need a sufficient vertical rise to get a proper draft. And of course you need enough length of pipe so you don't have live embers exiting.
I won't say never do it but it's certainly not the kind of thing you want to cobble together at the last minute without any proper experimentation.
DISCLAIMER
I suppose, given the number of wood burners I've played with, that I take it for granted that everyone has a basic understanding of their function - if you don't, please don't mess with it.