Gas Tumble Drier...

Gerry1

Highland76 said:

And the top of range Miele heat pump tumble dryers are A+++ rated. Obviously not cheap...

£2499 for a TWV680 WP Passion.  The label says it uses 177kWh of electricity whereas mine uses about 261kWh of gas.

An extra £2120 for a dryer that will use electricity costing £21.44 annually instead of gas costing £6.19?  Hmmm... that's a difficult one.

coffeehound

Also, time spent in tumble dryers damages clothes, so expect your clothes to look worn out quicker.

stewie_griffin

What's wrong with a good old fashioned clothes horse 😂

Gerry1

stewie_griffin said:

What's wrong with a good old fashioned clothes horse 😂

You get mould on the walls and they don't win any races...

Cardew

Gerry1 said:

Do heat pump dryers suck heat out of the room, making it colder and making the CH work harder?  Sounds like robbing Peter to pay Paul !

Heat Pump Tumble Dryers

Tumble dryers can be an essential piece of machinery in any home, and they are one of the top appliances for people to purchase. They get our clothes dry through all seasons, so we don’t need to wait for the rain to stop and the sun to start shining. You may have heard of heat pump tumble dryers, the latest craze in the home appliance world. You may have even been wondering if they will make the right fit for your home. Here, you will find all the information you will need to decide if you want one for yourself.

What is a Heat Pump Tumble Dryer?

The heat pump tumble dryer has been widely used in Switzerland and Germany for the past 13 or more years. The technology was produced to help conserve energy. You see, while conventional models of tumble dryer release the hot air that is used to dry clothes, heat pump technology works to conserve and reuse it. Here’s a little more detail about the process.

Hot air passes through the drum of the machine, absorbing the moisture from your clothing. After this, it passes through a number of filters, where the air is partially cooled and the moisture removed, The water that is collected is then deposited into a water tank (using the same process as a standard condenser dryer). As this is occurring, the warm air is heated back up, and circulated back to the drum. The fact that the hot air is reused means that the energy is kept within the machine instead of being allowed to escape. This process drastically reduces the energy required to operate the machine, thus reducing operating costs.

tim_p

Gerry, give up!  You can’t buy them any more and unless you’ve got a handy gas pipe and a tame Gas Safe engineer friend then they would have cost a small fortune to install and possibly need an annual check to satisfy house insurance companies ( no doubt you’ll come back and say this isn’t a requirement!) 

MWT

It is all a bit academic at this point.

The gas option has gone it seems.

The electric options are getting better and even if you ignore the expensive A+++ electric options and settle for a sub-£300 A++ version that will use around 211kWh a year you are still only talking about spending less than £30 a year on energy for it so not really much to be saved there any more.

matelodave

I was quite keen to get a heatpump dryer when we replaced our ailing one last year but there was no way I could persuade SWMBO that spending twice as long to do the drying was a good idea so we got another one like we already got. We don't have the option for gas even if they were still available

TBH spending another £200 on a dryer to save save £20-£30  a year in leccy, costs might save the planet but not my pocket

MWT

matelodave said:

TBH spending another £200 on a dryer to save save £20-£30  a year in leccy, costs might save the planet but not my pocket

Agreed, but when the difference is down to £100 and it is using only half the electricity then it starts to get more practical.

Time is an issue though, I just looked at the times on the rating sheet for a full cotton load for the lower end of the price range for standard vented, condenser & heat pump, all 7Kg loads.

Vented - B - 472kWh - 113 mins - £179

Condenser - B - 504kWh - 125 mins - £189

Heat Pump - A++ - 211kWh - 155 mins - £299

coffeehound

^ It's surprising how little difference there is between vented and condenser there.  Hardly worth all the extra complexity and emptying.