Tumble Drier - £200 or £750?

Sterlingtimes

I have Mrs Sterling's Indesit on a kWh a meter from today. Currently projecting 2 kWh per load, 21 loads per week. About £250 per year running cost. Once that is checked will need to review machine options. Insurance is £4.91 per month.

jjlandlord

The issue with vented dryers is that you need to take of the vent, i.e. probably drill through the wall, etc. to do it properly.
On the other hand, you install a condensing dryer anywhere you want as you would for example a fridge.

On power consumption, a priori I would agree that a condensing dryer would be less economical than a vented one just looking at the way it operates.

chickens11

I bought a White knight secondhand dryer over 22 years ago and it last until 2012, I gave £45 back then , so 20 years on a second hand dryer I couldnt moan about that..........I replaced it with a new White knight dryer 2012 and its brilliant too, cost me £149...Dryers dont seem to go wrong like washing machines do , so from my experience id say go for a cheap one ....

nearlyrich

We have a White Knight gas powered tumble dryer purchased when we moved in here in December 1992, still working fine we have spent a little on spares over the years. It dries clothes around 50% faster than typical electrical TDs and has certainly been worth whatever we paid for it all those years ago...if you have the capacity for a gas supply I would go for one of these...


http://www.crosslee.co.uk/english/whiteknight/gasdryersinfo.html

worried_jim

Nilrem wrote: »

We've tended to buy White Knight tumble dryers for the last 15-20 years and they've lasted something over 5 years each, which given they were usually the cheapest wasn't bad, especially given how much heavy use they get in our house.

As has been said, if you spend £750 on one that lasts ten years, it'll work out cheaper to buy two or three that cost £200 each and last 4-5 years.

Got mine for less than £100 and 7 years later all I've had to do is replace the element for £14 and 20 mins. Would recommend.

sparky260500

get a Samsung heat pump a++ energy rated and auto dry so it stops when clothes are dry so doesn't keep running yes very expensive but well worth it cause of the a++ rated

thescouselander

sparky260500 wrote: »

get a Samsung heat pump a++ energy rated and auto dry so it stops when clothes are dry so doesn't keep running yes very expensive but well worth it cause of the a++ rated

I'm not convinced it's that clear cut. The Samsung dryer looks to be around £500 in the cheaper places which makes it at least £300 more expensive than a bog standard vented dryer.

At 12p a unit for electricity £300 = about 2500 units. Just estimating from the numbers above the difference between the two technologies will be around 2 units per dry (and I believe that to be pessimistic because our dryer uses nothing like that) so the break even point will be 1250 loads - that's quite a lot.

I don't know how typical we are as a household but I'd say we do about 2.5 loads a week on average.

1250 / 2.5 = about 500 weeks or nearly 10 years before break even is achieved. Granted this doesn't take into account price hikes in energy bills but its still going to be a long time before the money is recouped. Who's to say these newfangled machines will even last that long?

tired_dad

we bought a Bosch from JL 3y ago. Love it. It is a condensing but is connected to the sink drain via a thin tube. Asa result we don't need to empty it of water.

It is quiet. The heat generated enters the room warming it up rather than out to the atmosphere.

Also sensor technology means it stops when it dry enough and you choose how dry.

ispookie666

My Tuble dryer has not been used for 5 years. ;-)
Got a dehumidfier and have have stuck that in the coldest part of the house along with the clothes. They dry in 24 hrs. the dehumidifier has frost protection and hygrometer. Its not that efficient at low temps. Also, I get deionised water - for use in steam iron, aquarium and screenwash.

Generali

Tumble driers are generally pretty reliable so it's probably not worth going for the top priced ones.

I'd go for a Zanussi. IME they are reasonably priced and very well made.