Heh. It's upstate NY, and I'm not heating with wood. Granted, winters around Albany aren't anything near the winters I grew up with in the Adirondacks, but they're cold enough. I was thinking the window exhaust would be more applicable during the warm months. As for dust... well, the pollen around here's bad enough. Wash your car one day, leave it out the next, and it needs another wash, for those that still care.

We've got one of those dryer boxes, too. Internal lint filter, and the box has a baffle that's supposed to help, too. I'm hoping it'll keep the humidity level up during the winter (we're heating primarily with natural gas... I can put 2 liters in the heater's pan twice a day), plus reduce the NG portion of our utilities. If we're drying our clothes, we may as well heat the apartment with it, too.

I'll try the fan/filter concept.

: Don't know what the Winters (Summers too) and energy costs are
: there, but here that would show up very quickly on my energy
: bills. The neighbours may get antsy about the dust on laundry
: and car-washing day too :)

: We have a neat box on our drier exhaust that filters the hot, moist
: air and redirects it back into the house during the Winter.
: Every little counts.

: The furnace filter on the fan trick really works, the best filters
: have a pleated element; these were recommended by the guy who
: installed our new high-efficiency furnace - I think they
: generate static electricity from the air flow to retain the
: dust. One problem though: I was changing the filter and got
: lazy, tried to do it from a stool instead of a ladder (the fan
: is attached to the workshop ceiling which is fairly high) and
: ended up with 95% of the dust down my neck. The door was open at
: the time and the local kids found that hilarious.