How to Install a Dryer With a Steam Feature

Duct Installation

• 1

  Slip a 4-inch dryer clamp over each end of a 4-inch dryer duct. Choose a duct that best suits the location of your duct opening in the wall, either rigid or flexible. Use utility shears to cut the excess from the end of a flexible duct to avoid kinks and loops in the duct.

• 2

  Fit the vent duct and clamp over the exhaust pipe extending from the back or side of the dryer. Tighten the screw on the side of the clamp to secure the duct to the dryer. Squeeze the two ends of the clamp together with your fingers to slide the clamp over the exhaust pipe; release them to secure the duct to the pipe if using a 4-inch wire squeeze clamp.

• 3

  Push the opposite end of the dryer vent duct over the exhaust pipe in the wall of your laundry area. Secure the duct to the pipe with the duct clamp.

Gas Dryer Installation

• 4

  Remove the plastic shipping cap from the gas connection on the back of the dryer.

• 5

  Apply gas pipe thread sealant to the threads on your home’s laundry room gas supply. Twist a flexible gas line onto the supply line. Tighten the flexible line with an adjustable wrench.

• 6

  Spread sealant on the threads of the gas connection protruding from the dryer. Attach the opposite end of the flexible gas pipe to the dryer and tighten it with the wrench.

• 7

  Apply a mixture of 50 percent liquid dish washing detergent and 50 percent water around the gas connections on the dryer and supply line. Turn the gas onto the dryer at the supply valve. Leaking gas will create bubbles in the soap mixture. Remove the flexible pipe, add more sealant and re-tighten the pipe if bubbles appear.

• 8

  Plug the power cord from the gas dryer into a 120-volt, 20-amp grounded outlet. Your gas dryer requires electricity to power the control panel.

Electric Dryer Installation

• 9

  Obtain a dryer cord compatible with the 30-amp dryer outlet in the wall of your laundry area. Depending upon the age of your home, you need either a four-prong cord or a three-prong cord.

• 10

  Remove the electrical access cover from the back of your dryer that covers the terminal block. Removing this cover also exposes the circular knockout beneath the terminal block opening.

• 11

  Insert the threads of the strain-relief connector, provided with the dryer cord, through the circular opening in the back of the dryer. Twist the lock nut, provided with the strain-relief connector, onto the threads of the connector.

• 12

  Thread the terminal ends of the four- or three-prong cord through the strain relief connector. Attach the middle wire from the cord to the middle screw on the dryer’s terminal block.

• 13

  Attach the red and the black wires from the cord to the terminal screws located on each side of the center screw. Since both the red and the black wires are hot wires, either wire can connect to either screw on the terminal block.

• 14

  Locate the green-colored ground screw along the edge of the terminal block opening. Connect the green wire attached to a four-prong cord to this screw. A three-prong cord will not have a ground wire.

• 15

  Tighten the screws on the strain-relief connector to keep the dryer cord secured to the dryer. Replace the access cover. Plug your dryer into the 240-volt, 30-amp dryer outlet in the wall of your laundry area.

Install Steam Line

• 16

  Turn off the cold water washing-machine water supply. Remove the cold water inlet hose from the cold water valve.

• 17

  Insert a rubber hose washer into the female end of a Y-connector that allows you to attach two hoses to one valve. Twist the Y-connector onto the cold water valve.

• 18

  Insert a new rubber washer into the washing machine inlet hose and reattach the hose to one of the male ends of the Y-connector. Insert another rubber washer into the female end of the steam dryer water inlet hose. Connect this end of the hose to the remaining connection on the Y-connector.

• 19

  Place an additional rubber gasket into the opposite end of the steam dryer water inlet hose. Attach the hose to the inlet valve on the dryer. Depending on the manufacturer of your dryer, the inlet valve could be located on the rear panel at the top of the dryer or along the bottom of the panel.

• 20

  Tighten all the water inlet hose connections with an adjustable wrench. Turn on the cold water supply valve.