The dryer is a greater concern. Your dryer blows air in considerable volume out of a four-inch vent. That exhausting air has to come from somewhere else first. If you're running it in a closet with solid doors closed, where will it come from? Don't know from codes about this, but I would advise louvred doors on any laundry closet excepting only if there is a very large make-up air intake as a substitute -- and I've never seen an arrangement like that.

Another solution would be to simply leave the doors open when the machines are running.

Oh, the doors are always kept open when I'm doing laundry (and I usually leave the dryer door open after everything's done and out to help the cool-down period, too).

I guess the manufacturer assumes that people shut the doors to keep the noise level down? It's never really bothered me--just the price of doing laundry, I think!

There you go. If your doors are open while the machines are running, there will not be a problem ever. Use the solid doors to cover the area when it's not runnng.

In this liability-sensitive age the manufacturer assumes you're a total idiot and therefore covers itself with every possible warning. Take a look at the manual that came with your machines. It's written for 3rd-graders, is it not?

Thank you, Asolo!

It's kind of like the fast-food restaurants warning drive-thru customers not to balance the cup of hot coffee between their knees!

It's kind of like the fast-food restaurants warning drive-thru customers not to balance the cup of hot coffee between their knees!

It only takes one multi-million dollar lawsuit by the idiot who "didn't know better" (unfortunately).