Dryer box

I'm having a hard time working out exactly what that product does. Are you looking for a venting kit? Something that vents to the outside of your house? You can go to Clive Peeters or Harvey Norman for a univeral dryer venting kit. Or you can buy them online.

After I posted my message I looked a bit further and asked my other half what the hell the box does. And then it became clear to me that in fact these seem quite useful. I never really thought about the fact that there is that bulk on the back of the dryer. Hmm you got me thinking about this now!

Before we knocked our old place down, we ran the plastic ducting through the wall cavity like this. It had to run 45° because we had to put in a beam half across the laundry for our fridge alcove (it used to sit against the wall)
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Also when we bought it it did come with a formed duct to run the ducting behind it (was quite thin profile) but we lost it.

New house will be similar but will run to vent through external wall rather than into ceiling and then to eave or through roof. The new ducting will be covered in by plaster (like a mini bulk head)

When we cutout the holes in the wall we just fed the ducting through by hand. It was a bit hard as there was a water pipe behind the plaster (that we knew of so we knew to be careful and not cut through it.

This looks like it would be great if it were the right price but if it as more than say $50 I'd still do it our original way.

Looking at the specs though they may not fit a regular Aussie house wall as I think ours are 90mm thick including both sheets of plaster. These have a wall cavity depth of 90mm so it would stick out a bit.

A very good idea though and I'm sure as someone said, you could make up something to suit with out too much drama.

I'm just re checking this for details so I'll answer some of your questions Rick,

Tumble dryers are a popular back up for clothes drying, but most of the Aussie Population that lives in Suburbia would use a clothes line/Hills hoist/out door line.

Our "standard" wall studs are usually either 70mm or 90mm thick with 450mm between studs. 70mm is the most common new build for internal walls unless specified. I'm not sure what the measurement is for steel frames.

Internal Laundry is standard for all run of the mill new houses and I think has been since the 70's at least.

One problem you may have to address is most new houses are built on concrete slabs here and with timber frames you need to find a way of getting through the timber top plate without cutting a piece out(no point having a big gap in the thing that holds you r house up is there)

Also it very common to wall mount (inverted/upside down) our dryers here.

Yes it would have been, but we modified it slightly.

We found that there was still a considerable amount of lint getting caught in the ducting with the moisture that is also vented.

To fix this potential issue we made a mesh screen to sit between the dryer and ducting against the wall.

Just lift/tilt the dryer toward the ceiling and pull out the screen, clean it and put it back. I used a fabric mesh that was similar to that of the lint catcher in the dryer.

I'll be using the same sort of set up in the new house.

Also the plastic ducting did get warm but not hot. In my opinion the extra lint trap removed 95% percent of the issue of potential fire hazard.