In my experience the flexible aluminum or foil ducts provide the best experiences and with annual cleaning of that duct as well as your PVC pipe run will provide you with the best and safest results. Again, just in my experience.

I think that is what we are going to end up doing, although I was under the impression that they weren't ideal. But I'll have to make sure my husband cleans it out every year.

Honestly, I love my house as far as its location and neighbors, but then things like this have my scratching my head. The house was built in 1999, so it wasn't like the laundry room was added at a later date or something. Why not put it on an outside wall?

When I hit the lottery, and can afford a kitchen remodel, I may re-locate the laundry room. If I basically put it directly across from where it is, it will be an outside wall. Might take some $, but I think it will be better overall.

My laundry is in the middle of the house, but we have a basement. My guess is, they figure you want the outer walls of your home for windows that open to spaces you use more than a laundry room. So look at it that way.

That would be a good theory Cedric, but the outer wall that would have made the most sense for it doesn't have any windows. Actually, we have an entire side of the house that doesn't have a single window. And that wall is where the kitchen and dining room is....a window or two would be great on those walls.

I probably won't add any windows at this point. I don't want to get into something more expensive than its worth. We may be here 5 years or 10, we don't really know.