MagVent MV-180 Magnetic Dryer Vent Coupling

My metal dryer duct goes down thru floor and very close to wall. This is a great product. Easy to install. Put part on dryer with magnetic and push back and lines up perfect. No more long extra white hose that bends and gets squeezed when pushing dryer back, Make it easy one a year to pull dryer out use blower on inside and clean out lint. Have used brushes on drills and regular cleaning, once a year for single person keeps bent clean, always hand clean outside flapper. This is a true time saver and allows one to push dryer back farther.

The Magvent MV-180 was easy to install and works great. My dryer is between a counter and my washer. Consequently, access to the rear of the dryer was restricted and I needed a 3' piece of expandible vent pipe to connect the dryer to the wall vent outlet. The vent pipe was always twisted up after I pushed the dryer back in place. The Magvent solved that problem. The magnets click-in perfectly when the dryer is close to the wall and the vent pipe is strait, no more twists.

Best purchase in a long time. I’ve never had a more solid dryer connection than this! I have them on all three of my dryers and they work great for new home construction and I’d say be simple to install on existing. The manufacturers built this thing sturdy and it’s a hard magnetic connection so I can just connect the dryer to it and slide it in place and the magnets will pull it directly into place and I don’t have to mess around trying to align two four inch pipes around each other.

Had my new washer vent coming out within 3 inches of the wall vent. Couldn't use elbows or flex because I had no access on either side and needed to get the machine all the way back. This works and solves the problem. Here are the comments: -Installs to wall very easy. Cut your duct flush with metal snips and this fits right into it with a cone shaped tail piece. Wall anchors included. Don't flex the backing plate out of shape when attaching to the wall. -Alignment - I was 2-3 inches lower and 2 -3 inches side to side away from the wall vent. Took a couple of tries to get the bends just right in the hose so it would hit close enough to attach. This was a blind installation. Took 3 tries and the machine (washtower) is over 300 pounds to move in and out so not easy. But you can "pre set" the magnet on the end of the hose in the general location of your wall plate if you measure and align. The hose is rigid enough to state generally where you set it. To help align it I looped a light weight long electrical cord under the flex piece attached to the machine and over the top of the washtower and when I got it about 2 inches away from mating, I realigned by carefully lifting and moving the magnet flange over to where I needed it. Used a mirror to see from the top. Hard to explain but it works. -When attaching the duct to the dryer, the dryer outlet was a little smaller than a typical 4" pipe so on the first try of clamping the metal pipe to the dryer pipe, the metal flex pipe ripped badly right near the hose clamp. Had to cut about an inch or 2 off the metal flex pipe with snips and on try number two I put a larger diameter coupling over the dryer pipe end then clamped the flex down over it. This helped but still had slight tearing where the clamp gear is on the hose. Likely needs some tape over the clamp and hose on the end near the dryer. Wish they had made the end of the hose an aluminum coupling that could be clamped on instead of clamping the hose. - Hose is not replaceable so if you tear it bad it is gone. I would be very careful with the hose. It is metal but it is very thin. - Magnet holds pretty well but you dont really know (if you cannot get to the back/sides of the machine) if it is properly connected and sealed. Hard to see from the top of the machine with a mirror. Overall a very good idea that needs a little more improvement to make it 5 stars mostly on the quality of the hose and where it connects to the machine.

This is such a winner. We have a very small space to work with behind our dryer. It's impossible to have a proper-length short hose because you can't get in there to attach it with the dryer pushed close to the wall. And our clothes weren't getting dry in one cycle because of the crimps and clogs in the way-too-long hose. Putting in a shorter hose has cut our drying time in half by the load, and this magnetic system made it not only possible, but really easy. There is less lint leakage and less in the trap as well, keeping our laundry room cleaner. Installation couldn't be simpler, and took all of 10 minutes tops. The hardest part will be if you need to trim the vent pipe in the wall, or bend it back. Get yourself some tin snips if you don't have any. Then just attach the flange to the wall using the included screws and anchors. Clip in the magnetic mount. Screw the short hose onto the back of your dryer in the usual way. Then push the dryer into position and watch the magnetic halves find each other like cosmic soul-mates (with a little nudge from you, if necessary). The "180" model works for vents that are perfectly aligned with the dryer exhaust, or offset up to 3 inches in any direction. Ours was exactly 3 inches offset vertically, and about the same horizontally (measuring center to center), and this worked perfectly for us. But MagVent does make other configurations for bigger offsets (like the "90"). I can't tell you how many hours of my life I've spent struggling with cleaning and reattaching dryer vent hoses. I wish I had found this sooner. It makes installation, attachment, and periodic cleaning extremely easy. I would absolutely buy this again, and will recommend it to others.

Our house has a small, cramped utility room. When the house was built 20+ years ago, the builder and I attempted to place the wall mounted dryer vent such that our dryer would plug "straight in" since access for a connection was absolutely impossible. This has never worked well and always results in a very leaky connection. Every few years, we would pull the dryer away, climb in behind it, clean up the lint mess, and try yet again to "dock them" hoping for the best. After its most recent cleaning, I did some "YouTube" research and found this MV-180 Magnetic coupling. I knew immediately this would work! It is a genius idea! I bought one. Installation instructions are clear and there is also a YouTube video that I watched. It looks clean and high-tech when installed on the wall. Very secure. The clips that capture the wall mounted magnetic ring were a little awkward, but I was able to pry them into position using a large screw driver. I did not bother caulking the installation for pretty-ness because the caulk I had is only rated to 100F and no one will see it anyway. I have attached some pictures, as well as a suspenseful and exciting"docking video" that I captured by holding my iphone over the backside of the dryer as I pushed it into position (this is impossible to view without a camera or mirror). They do state that the dryer and the vent duct need to be within 1-2 inches of each other (left/right, top/bottom). This is going to depend on the separation - the more you have the more room the units have to find each other. In our case the alignments were within 1/2 inch and things worked great. This is because we want our dryer as close to the wall as we can get it to maximize our usable space.

I don't leave many reviews but this product deserves to be noticed. It is good quality, easy to install, and the self alignment feature is very helpful. With the MagVent 180 I was able to get my dryer about 4in closer to the wall and eliminate a couple turns in a flexible vent. I didn't have to work hard and now the dryer doesn't have to work as hard either.

Great product and worth the cost. It’s wide collar works even if the vent hole was cut out badly by previous workmanship. I’m not a fan of the screw drywall anchors that are included, but I know other DIYers who like them so to each their own. I’ll be buying again if needed on another project.