Most washer-dryers aren't good, but a few are. The only place I could find them reviewed was "Which?", so I joined for a month purely to find out which washer dryer to buy. I'd say which one I bought, but it was a slightly older model that is no longer available for a good price. This sounds a lot like an ad, but it's not!
I am both blushingly admitting, and also now ... accepting of myself.. to say I now have a tumble drier, after decades of not having one.
For decades I dried clothes by air. And for decades it was OK.. for decades of springs and summers... but for decades of wet autumns and winters....I dried clothes indoors and in hindsight, it caused a huge amount of condensation. I know this now that I am using a tuble drier, as my windows are no longer damp, the bathroom tiles are no longer damp either.
There are 3 types (as you will find out):
The most expensive are SOOO expensive that I'd never get my money back
The mide range technology is v popular but still big dough
The cheap version, which I purchased, throw the warm air out of the pipe and through a hole in your wall and therefore I am killing the planet more than the other guys.
But I also only paid £150 quid for it new and it's being used twice per week from Nov onward, using verty little electricity and it's got one other benefit.....
I can now tumble my waterproof clothes, reactivating the waterproofing
and THAT is actually why I wanted it![]()
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
I have a condensor tumble dryer, I use it every day.
Jon
I've got a condenser as no easy way to route the exhaust pipe out the wall from a non-condensing model however I try not to use it as its costs a fortune in electric. I tend to prefer a couple of clothes airers set next to each other so air can flow through the middle of both and then have a £100 screwfix dehumidifier blowing the dry air through the centre of the airers (It has a dry clothes feature that wafts the air). This usually does the trick if I don't hang the clothes too tight.
This setup means I only need to tumble dry bedding/towels as they are pretty awkward to hang (A towel in a load is supposed to make a tumble dryer more efficient apparently). I couldn't have managed without the tumble dryer when the kids where babies though - Sometimes clothes needed washing and wearing twice a day!
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