Dishwashers and tumble dryers - yay or nay?

MABLE

A dishwasher and tumble dryer are a must. The alternative is just to much to bear.

good_advice

Nay.
I would see both dishwasher and tumble dryer as adding more £ to the electric bill.
Never owned a dishwasher. Lot of faffing about loading and then unloading. Long time spent in washing.
I wash the dishes several times a day and always rinse under the hot tap. It does not take long.

Tumble dryer, I do own. The poor thing sits on top of the washing machine and is lucky if used 3 times a year.
I line dry every day it is not raining or snowing. Then put the clothes on airer's to fully dry this weather.

Same with plug in electric fires. We own x4 rarely get used.

Cardew

Smiley_Dan wrote: »

Yeah, only 20x as much...

http://www.sust-it.net/energy-saving.php?id=41
http://www.sust-it.net/energy-saving.php?id=19

And those are the best performers!

Do you think those running costs are expensive?


Also sust-it used an electricity price of 15.2p/kWh which is considerably more than I hope most of us pay.

victor2

Another vote for the dishwasher. They use much less water than washing by hand. The cost of it heating that small amount of water will almost certainly be less than the cost of heating the hot water you would use washing by hand. There is of course the cost of dishwasher supplies, mainly the tablets, but you often get deals on those in the supermarkets. So long as you have enough crockery and cutlery to fill the dishwasher between washes, then for a couple you would probably only use it something like every other day.

Tumble dryers are relatively expensive to use, especially when you consider it is free to just hang the clothes to dry naturally - so long as you have the space. When we can't hang clothes outside in the garden, they hang in our utility room, where our very old boiler lives and due, no doubt to its inefficiency, it keeps the utility room very warm without a radiator!

Smiley_Dan

Cardew wrote: »

Do you think those running costs are expensive?

Do you think a cream egg at 59p is expensive?

Back to tumble driers, the financial cost is too high, for me.

The environmental cost is also too high, for me.

But those evaluations are based on the fact that:

- I choose a lifestyle than minimises outgoings
- I have a garden to dry clothes in
- I monitor house humidity so make decisions about when clothes can be dried inside (with a view to creating a drying room in the future)

If you don't do the above then your evaluation will be different. On the other hand, the lower cost and convenience of a dishwasher, especially since I run it when we are generating electricity, makes it "worth it".

But that's just my evaluation in my situation.

andypandy86

Yeah I think I'll likely buy some more crockery and then only use the dishwasher once it's full

Then for the tumble dryer I might purchase one but only use it when the weather isn't great - also, with us only being a couple I doubt we will run it that many times and therefore it shouldn't rack up too much of a cost overall

Cheers for the advice!

cajef

good_advice wrote: »

Never owned a dishwasher. Lot of faffing about loading and then unloading.

I wash the dishes several times a day and always rinse under the hot tap. It does not take long.

Less time to load and unload than washing and drying by hand several times a day.

Your second sentence just goes to justify having a dishwasher, how much hot water are you heating and do you think your are using washing dishes and rinsing them with hot water several times a day?

I would suggest changing your user name.:D

Also would not be without a tumble dryer, in winter ours is used several times a week.

Elli452

For me it comes down to time saved. I work full time and find my tumble drier invaluable because it means I can get stuff dry whilst I am work without risking coming home to wet clothes if it starts to rain, or damp ones if i finish late. Hoping for a nice dry weekend is a nightmare at best and impossible in winter. Also tripping over the airer can be a pain if the house is small. It's not cheap to run, but I find the time-saving and clothing budget saving (having ready clean dry clothes means no need for a large work wardrobe) to be more beneficial.

I wish I had a dishwasher.......

C_Mababejive

Tumble drier here but only for when the washing cant go on the line.

Dishwasher..never had one . There are only two bodies here and i could have them in a bowl and done by the time i have faffed around filling and unloading a dishwasher.

I have heard it said BTW that you should rinse dishes before putting them in the DW?

Smiley_Dan

Nah. Need to clean the filters though.