Hello, My wife noticed it was taking forever for the dryer to finish a load so I figured I should check the duct and vent. My dryer vents straight to the wall where it then goes down into the unfinished basement and out of the foundation. Once I went under the house the problem was immediately clear. As you can see from the attached photo the duct is a flexible plastic tube and when I lifted up on it I could feel it was full of water in the elbow and functioning like a sink drain: blocking most or all of the air. When I detached it and carried it out to dump in the yard I noticed two other issues: 1. The vertical metal tube that goes straight up to the floor above was not permanently attached by anything and was loose with lint blown along the basement ceiling where it connected to another tube dropping down and 2. the opening of the horizontal pipe that goes straight out of the foundation was almost entirely blocked with wet lint. My question is, should I replace the plastic elbow that connects the vertical and horizontal pipes with a rigid metal one and seal or otherwise better attach the vertical tube, or try to have a new vent installed that goes straight out of the house from where the dryer is without going down through the basement? My preference would be to not install a new vent since it would involve drilling through a part of the 110 year old house that has siding, etc. But I don't want to have this issue keep coming up. There is no telling how long the issue has been developing...I've never cleaned the duct in the 2.5 years I've lived here so it is very possible that it's been building up for 10 or more years. Any advice will be appreciated.

I have a Kenmore topmount model 363.9664781. No ice maker. No water connections at all. There is a tube from the middle of the rear that drains down to below the compressor. There seems to be leaking from elsewhere since there is dampness above the bottom of the tube, near the top of the compressor. I noticed dripping in the basement. That's how I found it. There is not pan to collect water. Some of the electrical connections are wet because the leak is above the bottom of the tube. When I pulled out the fridge I noticed that I had written some notes on the back with arrows pointing to the tube and where it is supposed to drain. The notes are there because I had this happen sometime in the past. I did not write any notes about what caused the leaking or what I did about it. Smart, huh? Anyhow, Can anybody provide some insights? Why would there be a drain tube and no pan? If the manufacturer expected drainage, why were there no installation instructions to provide a place for the water to go? I'll try to attach a crude drawing.