washing machine or washer dryers

sam2015_2

What is good? washer dryer or a washing machine and tumble dryer?
We only have washing machine so just wash and hang up the cloths to dry for few days.
Family is getting bigger and needed a new washing machine. So thinking of getting a tumble dryer to go with it then I found the washer dryer. made me think more now.

Do tumble dryers need water connection? How do they work?

keith969

Tumble driers just blow hot air into a drum with the clothes in. Then depending on the type, either that air is vented via a large-ish pipe to outdoors, or it goes through a condenser to remove the moisture and is recirculated, hence no need for a pipe to outdoors. A tumble drier doesn't need a water supply.

Advantages of a separate drier: you can be drying one load while washing another. Combined washer/driers are supposedly more unreliable. Disadvantage: separate washer and drier takes up more space.

EssexExile

Also washer dryers usually only dry half a load at a time. So wash, take half out, dry first half, dry other half. Half the day gone & you've done one load.
If you've got room go for separates.

macman

As above. They're also hideously slow (when acting.as driers) and are the most unreliable type of white goods. Avoid at all costs.
Remember that you can stack the two separate machines if space is an issue.

peachyprice

If you do a full load in a washer/dryer you'll have to take half out to dry it.

If a washer/dryer breaks down you're without 2 machines at the same time.

I can't understand why people still buy them TBH.

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peachyprice wrote: »

I can't understand why people still buy them TBH.

Space. If you only use it occasionally like in the depths of winter then it could make sense.

We have a condensor dryer in the bathroom to save us space in the kitchen which works for us.

iammumtoone

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We have a condensor dryer in the bathroom to save us space in the kitchen which works for us.

Sorry to hijack the thread but how does this work. I didn't think you you could have electrical sockets in the bathroom.

I really miss my washer/dryer replaced it with just a washer, big mistake I don't have any room for a separate dryer, but I could fit one in the bathroom.

Ebe_Scrooge

I've always had a separate washer and tumble dryer. Lived in a rented place for a while that had a washer/dryer - never again ! It was rubbish, took ages to dry stuff and never really got the clothes dry. A straightforward tumble dryer is also a very simple bit of kit - not a lot to go wrong, and cheap to fix if it does. Plus, if it's out of action for a week or so, it's not the end of the world, whereas being without a washing machine - especially with a family - is a lot more inconvenient.

Ebe_Scrooge

iammumtoone wrote: »

Sorry to hijack the thread but how does this work. I didn't think you you could have electrical sockets in the bathroom.

I really miss my washer/dryer replaced it with just a washer, big mistake I don't have any room for a separate dryer, but I could fit one in the bathroom.

You can't have sockets in a bathroom, but you can have electrical outlets - you just need to have them "plumbed in", so to speak, by a properly qualified electrician. But they're permanently installed, you can't just plug and unplug them.

EssexExile

iammumtoone wrote: »

Sorry to hijack the thread but how does this work. I didn't think you you could have electrical sockets in the bathroom.

Someone will come on with the rules later but basically as long as the dryer can't be reached from the bath (no doubt there are regulations about distance) & is hard wired not plugged in & the switch is outside the bathroom it's fine. I found this, it's a few years old so things may have changed:
http://www.amdea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Appliances-in-bathrooms_July09.pdf

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EssexExile wrote: »

Someone will come on with the rules later but basically as long as the dryer can't be reached from the bath (no doubt there are regulations about distance) & is hard wired not plugged in & the switch is outside the bathroom it's fine. I found this, it's a few years old so things may have changed:
http://www.amdea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Appliances-in-bathrooms_July09.pdf

We just use an extension which is well away from the bath..
Also a lot of people have their washing machines in the bathroom too... This actually makes a lot of sense if you have more room in there..