Tumble dryer: recommendations?

digital

Just realised, I should have started a new thread rather than continue my Condensing Tumble Dryer thread.

So...

...and now my aunt wants a vented tumble dryer!

Any recommendations on this?

Anyone know what the Which? best buy is/was?

TIA.

quoia

Get a GAS one !!!

We've had 2.
Both White Knight.

Only replaced the 1st one with the "mark 2" version of the same model really.
Nothing wrong with the first one, just came across the other one at a bargain price and thought "it must be better".

It was "high speed" (1 hour timer instead of 2) and was "reversing" as well. Other than that they were identical.

Sold the original for more than we had paid for it 3 years earlier!!!


With GAS it costs about 5p to dry an entire load - probably 6p with the increased gas prices.

Same load in an electric was about 40 pence when we first got it, must be 50 pence or more now.

GAS tumble driers are more expensive to buy than the cheaper/cheapest electric ones, but pay for themselves in about 2 years of using them with "average usage"

Can't fault White Knight - no faults of any description in all the time we've had them.

culpepper

Get one with cool as well as hot setting.
Useful if you have woollens or brushed cotton pyjamas as they will shrink on the hot setting.

spankymonkey_2

i have a white knight A class. which is as economical as you can get. tells when the washing is dry by using a sensor, and then stops drying accordingly. best dryer i have used by far!

quoia

i have a white knight  A class. which is as economical as you can get.

I believe that there are dryers with A++ or AAA class ratings.

However I understand that to achieve this very low level of electricity usage, drying times are between 12 and 24 hours.
This is because the heat source is only about the same as a 60 watt light bulb.

albalad

digital , have replied on you're other thread - with the "which"report on vented tumble driers .......had'nt noticed this new thread until now :-/

scattycat_3

White Knight are made at the old Philips Washing machine factory in Hipperholme, Halifax and have a good reputation.
The workforce got together to buy the place when Philips closed them down years ago.

We had a very fast spin automatic washer made there, which lasted 24 years, as compared to our last German?/Italian Philips which became "beyond economical repair" at 2yrs 5mths old, followed two weeks later by its sister tumble dryer ::)

So much for progress and accountants.

Scat

PS does your aunt like steam?, better to get a condensing one, try harder to convince her.

digital

White Knight are made at the old Philips Washing machine factory in Hipperholme, Halifax.

Made in Yorkshire! That's got to be the one!

NDK49

Get a GAS one !!!

Nothing wrong with the first one, just came across the other one at a bargain price and thought "it must be better".

So where was the bargain price? Is it still on or likely to be repeated?

So far I have only been able to find one or two online stores that sell them and they were expensive.

quoia

So where was the bargain price? Is it still on or likely to be repeated?

So far I have only been able to find one or two online stores that sell them and they were expensive.

Sorry, had this 2nd one for about 2 years now.
It was a bargain price because it was a clearance item from a gas showroom.

Yes the gas ones are relatively expensive given that you can get an "unbranded" electric one for under £100.

The basic design of both are the same, drum, motor, timer, blower etc, and these bits cost a similar amount. Unfortunately the heat source in an electric one is cheap because it is just a coil of wire similar to that in a fan heater or hair dryer.
A gas heat source needs the burners, and ignition device, a gas valve instead of a switch, a flame failure device and a few more bits of metal rather than a few wires.

However when you take into account the running costs, 6p for a load in a gas dryer and 50p for the same load in an electric dryer, it doesn't take too many cycles to recoup the difference. From then on you are saving money and not wasting it.

Just 2 loads a week over a 2 year period would cost £104 in electricity but the gas one does it for £12.

JIT_3

Do you know of any websites selling the gas dryers?