Guidance for swapping down my fuel dryer myself

My (instead old) washer blew through to me a weeks that are few (Apparently this has been unbalanced for some time. Was included with the accepted destination and I also never ever thought an excessive amount of the vibration until it absolutely was too late.) and am getting a brandname brand new set delivered back at my new set (Washer HERE, petrol Dryer HERE) from Sears on Thursday.

They desired about $80 plus parts to put in them (I forget I declined having just disconnected everything myself, I figured it would be easy enough to set up the new ones if it was each or for both) and. I am not especially handy but I’m at about replace-my-own-ceiling-fan, remove-and-reinstall-my-own-garbage-disposal level.

I am not overly concerned with the washer, but I happened to be reviewing the manual for the dryer online and it offers me just a little stressed. It discusses needing to purge the gas type of air twice, utilizing teflon tape (i did not see any proof of that from the old install), etc.

Therefore I wanted to pose the question- is this a thing that some body within my degree are capable of myself or is there enough gotchas that i will cough within the cash?

EDIT: I succeeded thanks in large part to the answer here- thank you today.

I finished up buying ‘yellow’ gas-approved teflon tape and a fresh gas that is flexible (to be safe. It had been $30 though!). And a dryer that is new hose (also pricey) since evidently we required a steel one while the existing one was foil.

It had been about as simple as We hoped.

1. We connected the (new) exhaust vent hose utilising the stress coupling bands ( not yes the appropriate term) that was included with it on both edges- wall and appliance. The manual demanded to not ever make use of foil vent, therefore we used a steel one. (regrettably, caribbeancupid profile examples the most metal that is flexible we found pushes the dryer away too much from the wall surface for my requirements- i can not shut the doorway to my washing case now. Subject of another post i assume. I will decide to try a “periscope” dryer vent.)
2. We connected the gas that is new towards the valve from the wall surface, utilizing a layer of yellow teflon tape on the threads (even though the Home Depot man appeared to think I would just want it from the appliance part)
3. We connected one of many couplings that are removable the gasoline line into the straight back of this dryer (again, utilized tape despite the fact that maybe not necessary)
4. Switched on the fuel for a moment to purge the line
5. Loosely threaded the gasoline line into this coupling, additionally making use of tape as suggested; purged once more
6. Tightened by having a (newly bought) pipeline wrench.
7. Switched on the fuel and listened & smelled for gasoline at both connections – odorless and silen 🙂

Took possibly half an hour, almost all of that time ended up being spent wrestling the stress couplings and hoping to get the threads to take- ended up being attempting to be extremely mild.

Dryer began appropriate up no nagging problems and it also (and now we!) survived two test loads.

Therefore, went well, i discovered it not too difficult and would try it again. Thank you for helping me personally build my skillset!

(Including the photo that is requested though it’s a little belated. Note that we covered the hard-gas-line’s opening with painter’s tape and stuck it on/around the valve which means you can not notice it, but it is here. Wished to protect it from most of the lint and dirt going swimming down there.)