The Dreamwidth Journal of zdashamber

I had some similar issues when I bought my house - the gas pipe and the dryer vent were about 15-20 feet apart. The previous owner had use copper flex pipe and tapped into the black gas piping with it. He also had a really long length of vent ducting coming out of the dryer. When my appliances were delivered, they actually refused to hook up the dryer because of the length of copper flex piping used (which it turns out was also *kinked*). I wound up hiring someone to run the black pipe out further (basically, we changed out an elbow joint for a t-joint and added some pipe on), and then used a very short flexible pipe to cover the distance from the wall to the dryer. I also put a cabinet in between the washer and the dryer to get the dryer closer to the vent, so I could shorten the vent ducting. The cabinet turns out to be a handy place to keep detergent, fabric softener, etc.