Cost to Run Tumble dryer

To work out the running cost of your tumble dryer or any other electrical item, first you need to look at your leccy bill and find out what you are being charged per/kilowat/hour. Then you need to find out the wattage rating for the appliance.
So talking in round figuers, if your charge rate is 10p per kilowat/hour, and you run something rated at 1000w(1KW) for 1 hour, it will cost you 10p plus VAT maybe ?
Hope my explanation is understandable.
Dave T

Almost impossible to calculate as it will depend on the heating losses in your house.

Also, you don't say what temperature you would otherwise keep your house at?

But based on my fag-packet calculations, I reckon it costs an average of £3 per day to heat my house, probably to about 20-21C. (Based upon yearly costs [less 10% for hot water] spread over five months. The differential cost of dropping 1 deg C is usually quoted as being about 10% so in the region of 30p per day.

So depending on what temperature you keep your house at normally, it's cheaper to use the tumble drier.

Millions of caveats to this, though

Yes, but this doesn't make sense. If I get you right, you're saying that you want to keep the house at 20C, they want to keep it at, e.g. 18C.

Your argument is that by having the house hotter you could dry clothes quick enough that you would not need to ever use the tumble drier. If that's the only reason you turn the heating up, then it's clearly wrong: it's far cheaper to use the tumble drier for an hour twice a week than to have the temperature higher whenever you have the heating on.

Many years ago when I was at university I shared a house with 4 others. The house had a coal fire but we couldn't afford coal. We had to sneak out at night to "borrow" wood wherever we could find it. The room would eventually reach a temperature high enough to melt the frost on the windows. There was no heating in the bedrooms so we would warm them (sparingly) with electric heaters before going to bed fully dressed.

I get the impression that life is easier for students nowadays.

I have no idea about kw and stuff

Oh, dear. Well just remember that knowledge is power. Without even a basic understanding of "kw and stuff" you may struggle and you certainly won't sound convincing.

A condensing tumble dryer is an electric heater and all the heat is lost into the house instead of through a vent pipe. If this does not heat your house enough then of course it will cost more to heat it than one tumble dryer alone. I think u'd need a tumble dryer continueously running in each room to heat the house. If they are big cocks then you could eat them instead of buying a turkey!