Dryer Vent Connector Kit - 90 Degree Dryer Vent Hose Connector for Tight Spaces, Space Saving Dryer Vent Elbow - DIY Toolless Design with Airtight Seal - STV-90 by Ziggurat Products

easy to hook up

Ingenious product! I fix a lot of things, and this product is a winner. I’ve repaired the dryer vent connection more times than I can count, and finally I feel like this time it’s going to be a good fix. I can’t yet speak to the durability of this, but the construction seems quite good. It might slip off with vibration, but it’s so easy to push on. Tip : before putting the snap on ring onto your vent hose, first stretch & flatten the hose in the last 1-2”, where the ring will install. That allows things to fit together properly. I didn’t do that the first time, and the pieces wouldn’t quite snap together.

I got this to avoid a tight bend in the dryer hose. I was able to install an elbow on BOTH ends, with the connections rotated opposite. One end on the dryer, one end on the vent outlet. Some points: *Put the silicone gasket on the dryer and the vent, NOT inside the connector, as one of the videos shows. If you put it on the connector it can get pushed out of place. *This will only work with the cheaper thin dryer hose. The connector fit is too tight for a sturdier hose. That's not too bad, because the connector prevents the hose from getting crimped. *This works perfectly if you have a correctly installed and perfectly round dryer vent. My builder did not get the hole in the brick perfectly round, and as a result, the dryer vent tube is slightly deformed into an oval shape, where it comes through the wall. Because of that, I had a difficult time getting the connector to fit all the way onto the vent tube. However, it's pushed on about 80% as far as it's supposed to be, and fits very tightly. *People who say this falls off or leaves gaps either have a smaller vent system than 4", or they are not installing it correctly. Installed correctly, the connectors fit very tightly and stay put. This is a good option if you have a vent system that can get crimped or has to make a 90 degree turn. It's better to have the turn on the smooth sturdy adapter, than in a dryer vent hose.

I had a new exhaust event put in on the side of my home, rather than having it running through the roof of my two-story home. The washer and dryer each are 30 inches wide so it left very little room to get behind to clean out the dryer vent hose and when I did it sometimes fell out when going through a few dry cycles. Needless to say with very little room to operate I needed something much more durable that would allow the vent to stay in place. Another product I purchased on Amazon worked, but it didn’t allow a 90 degree turn at the back of the dryer. This product solved all my problems and frustration! It was super easy to put in the foil vent into the housing and the design is genius and simple to keep it from falling out. The Amazon video goes through 4 simple steps: (1) put your existing or new vent hose into the plastic connector, (2) slide the connector into the plastic housing (mine was harder than it looked and I didn’t want to put a hole in the hose so I was careful), (3) slide the rubber seal onto the back of the dryer (make sure the rubber flanged end/stop is facing in the correct direction - check the illustration) and (4) slide the housing on the back of the dryer. Mine was a tight fit, but I know it’s not going anywhere. Now just slide the dryer back to the wall and ensure the housing slightly rests against the wall. The design is perfect and I’m confident the hose is no longer going to fall out. This new setup essentially allows my hose not to kink so I’m also confident the dry cycles will be more efficient and I’ll have less lint buildup in the hose over the same period of time. Overall it took my adult son and me longer to move the dryer out and back so I would say this is an easy DIY project. This particular model didn’t come with a new hose, but they’re relatively cheap. So if you have a plastic hose now would be the time to get an aluminum foil one!

I love the product. As anticipated it co.es with one 90 degree rigid plastic connector that prevents the dryer hose from kinking or getting crushed when you push the dryer back toward the wall. I bought 2 of them and used one on each end of the dryer vent tube. My connection come straight out of the wall (like most.) So I hooked one up to the wall and the other up to the dryer vent port. The hose gets locked into the well designed clips. Just follow the instructions and this product works very well. I watched the you tube video and it was very easy to follow. I would buy this any time I need to hook up a dryer that has any offset to the wall vent connection. 5 out of 5. This makes sure the link goes out and keeps the dryer working better.

Nothing makes me angrier than when I order a product--with videos, no less--that is so far and away WORSE than I can even imagine it to be! I am a hands-on, DIY gal who can usually figure out anything. After realizing that our clothes dryer is probably the culprit filling our home with dust, I got up at 3:00am Friday to peruse Amazon for a better duct/vent system for the laundry room. This looked like the answer right here! Not only is there a sort of demo video, there's also one with "the guy" showing me just how easy it is to install and how wonderful a product it is. As expected, it arrived yesterday--today, I thought while my husband napped, I'd get this bad-boy hooked up. O!M!G! In that video, the velcro straps look pliable and able to be cinched up tight: THEY AREN'T. They're rigid--and you cannot pull them tight enough to engage most of the velcro. Then, what bonehead decided that an oval vent was a good female connector for a wired round male hose? NEWS FLASH: IT ISN'T! Maybe, just maybe, if that cinch strap were made of fabric, you could tighten them around your foil hose enough to keep air, dust and lint from flying out there, but they're made of hard plastic, almost as rigid as the unit itself. Did they microwave or boil the straps in the video making them soft? I could make no headway no matter how hard I tugged. Then, with a string of irritating failures with this thing, the unit would not stay on the back of the dryer OR the stub at the wall. At first, I got out a roll of Gorilla Tape and started wrapping it every way possible--of course, by then my husband is up and wants to know why I am even doing this since it was "just a little dust." I was covered with lint and sweat--and I am no closer to solving this vent problem than I was Friday morning. Finally, I peeled off the yards of tape, picked this thing up along with those maddening straps--and put my old dryer hose back the way it was. I am calling customer service RIGHT NOW---normally, I would accept defeat and just throw the item away. This time, I want a credit or refund. I have never purchased anything less functional and less user-friendly. If other people managed to get it installed, my hat goes off to them. WORST PURCHASE EVER!

I needed this space-saving vent because the new dryer I purchased is about 1.5" deeper than my old dryer and therefore sits 1.5" closer to the wall. As a result, the installers ended up crushing my old 4" aluminum flexi-duct hose because there wasn't enough space for the flexi-duct to make a 90 degree turn upwards from where it mounted to my dryer. This space-saver vent helped fix that situation. Mounting the 4" aluminum flexi-hose to the big end of the vent was no problem. The hard plastic retaining ring holds the flexi-hose in place nicely. However, when it comes to mounting the unit to the dryer itself, there is an issue. The space-saver vent has a 4" plastic duct opening that needs to mate with the dryer's 4" aluminum duct. They were the exact same size. The 4" plastic duct doesn't fit over the dryer duct, nor does it fit inside the dryer duct. Apparently the clear silicone sealing ring was intended to hold the two together, but the 3/4" sealing ring is barely wide enough, leaving only about 3/8" of overlap on the plastic opening of the space-saving vent and 3/8" inch on the dryer's aluminum duct. Any little movement of the dryer will cause the space-saving vent to slip off the dryer duct. Besides being too narrow in width, sealing ring was made of a non-elastic silicone that wasn't very stretchable and did not offer a tight fit over the two 4" ducts that it was joining. The seal should be 2" wide to provide at least 1" of overlap onto each of the 2 ducts, it should be a bit more elastic, and there should be 2 hose clamps to permanently secure the silicone seal onto the ducts. What is needed to make this work right is this: Deflecto 4” Duct Connector, Aluminum with Bead and Crimp, Silver, 3” long (DAC4C). This adds another surface layer of contact that will help join the 4" space-saving dryer vent to the 4" vent on the dryer.

I usually manage to screw these kinds of installations up, but after watching the installation process on YouTube a couple of times, this was an easy and very straight-forward process - literally done in a few minutes with no tools. If for some reason it fails, I'll revise my review, but at the moment I'm both happy and relieved to have a working vented dryer again.

Needed to replace our dryer renting and this adapter made it a breeze. Took less than than 10 minutes to convert from start to finish.

Ahorra espacio

Exacto a las medidas, quedo perfecto y se ahorro el espacio, recomendado

Ce produit complète mon installation de sécheuse. Une rapidité de connexion et durable.

La salida de aire no entra ( recomiendo revisen el tamaño) antes de abrir el empaque.Buena calidad . No sirvió en mi caso; se maltrato al intentar instalar .. no solucionó mi situación del centro de lavado en espacio limitado