Heat pump tumble dryer

Sterlingtimes

The Candy heat pump dryer started on a journey to self-dectruction from day one. Fluff and lint build up in non-serviceable parts, and the machine becomes blocked. The service technician would visit frequently and do silly things such as blowing down a plastic pipe. After about six visits, the machine was written off. The replacement Hoover appears to be of an equivalent design to the Candy.

Now the Beko condenser is just wonderfully cleanable. All components that can be blocked are removable and remain serviceable by the user.  

The Hoover heat pump dryer is now on hot standby but is used infrequently.

There is great merit in simplicity and, to this extent, a comparison of costs on eco scores alone may provide an unsatisfactory answer.

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I can't understand why you are actually buying energy to dry clothes/bedding, especially at this time of year when it will easily dry in a few hours naturally either indoors or outdoors for free.

I don't have a tumbler drier, haven't had one for over a decade and never will have one either, they are simply unnecessary. I have a household of 4, all drying our clothes naturally all year round, with no issues whatsoever.

Mstty

[Deleted User] said:

I can't understand why you are actually buying energy to dry clothes/bedding, especially at this time of year when it will easily dry in a few hours naturally either indoors or outdoors for free.

I don't have a tumbler drier, haven't had one for over a decade and never will have one either, they are simply unnecessary. I have a household of 4, all drying our clothes naturally all year round, with no issues whatsoever.

Unusually for us it's allergies which means we dry indoors and put the excess(quite a lot in 5 tumble dryer loads each week). The upside is we don't have to use an iron and rated at 2600W and the fact that 5 dryer loads for us is less than 6kwh all the better.

We don't waste energy in other areas and our total energy usage for August was under 200kWh (roughly 6.5lWh a day)and that includes everything as we only have electricity so hot water/washing 6/7 loads a week/dishwasher on 6-7 times a week/tumble dryer on 5 times a week/cooking/vacuuming/fridge freezer indoors and a separate freezer in an out building/entertainment and two adults working from home full time with laptops and docking stations and monitors and a family lodger for who knows how long.

macman

Sterlingtimes said:

The Candy heat pump dryer started on a journey to self-dectruction from day one. Fluff and lint build up in non-serviceable parts, and the machine becomes blocked. The service technician would visit frequently and do silly things such as blowing down a plastic pipe. After about six visits, the machine was written off. The replacement Hoover appears to be of an equivalent design to the Candy.

Now the Beko condenser is just wonderfully cleanable. All components that can be blocked are removable and remain serviceable by the user.  

The Hoover heat pump dryer is now on hot standby but is used infrequently.

There is great merit in simplicity and, to this extent, a comparison of costs on eco scores alone may provide an unsatisfactory answer.

Hoover and Candy are both brands owned by Haier, a Chinese company.

[Deleted User]

macman said:

Sterlingtimes said:

The Candy heat pump dryer started on a journey to self-dectruction from day one. Fluff and lint build up in non-serviceable parts, and the machine becomes blocked. The service technician would visit frequently and do silly things such as blowing down a plastic pipe. After about six visits, the machine was written off. The replacement Hoover appears to be of an equivalent design to the Candy.

Now the Beko condenser is just wonderfully cleanable. All components that can be blocked are removable and remain serviceable by the user.  

The Hoover heat pump dryer is now on hot standby but is used infrequently.

There is great merit in simplicity and, to this extent, a comparison of costs on eco scores alone may provide an unsatisfactory answer.

Hoover and Candy are both brands owned by Haier, a Chinese company.

Yeah, there are only about 4 white goods manufacturers left - they just have several brands each.

Spies

I bought a Logik 8kg from Curry's, I've used it half a dozen times so far and it appears to work great.

macman

Spies said:

I bought a Logik 8kg from Curry's, I've used it half a dozen times so far and it appears to work great.

Logik is a Currys/DSG own-brand. So they're just generic machines badged up for Currys. Fine until you want to get spares in a couple of years when the warranty runs out. Let's hope you are lucky with it.

TrainDriver

[Deleted User] said:

I can't understand why you are actually buying energy to dry clothes/bedding, especially at this time of year when it will easily dry in a few hours naturally either indoors or outdoors for free.

I don't have a tumbler drier, haven't had one for over a decade and never will have one either, they are simply unnecessary. I have a household of 4, all drying our clothes naturally all year round, with no issues whatsoever.

It’s because people either don’t want or don’t have space for bedding or towels to dry naturally indoors when it’s raining outside.

Just because they’re unnecessary for you doesn’t mean everyone else can be bothered with wet washing drying all over the house.

Spies

macman said:

Spies said:

I bought a Logik 8kg from Curry's, I've used it half a dozen times so far and it appears to work great.

Logik is a Currys/DSG own-brand. So they're just generic machines badged up for Currys. Fine until you want to get spares in a couple of years when the warranty runs out. Let's hope you are lucky with it.

Spares are more likely to be available as it's a generic white good, if you know the other brands that share the same OEM, those parts also fit.

There is a Bush badged one which is identical except the compressor is slightly less efficient. 

Mstty

Spies said:

macman said:

Spies said:

I bought a Logik 8kg from Curry's, I've used it half a dozen times so far and it appears to work great.

Logik is a Currys/DSG own-brand. So they're just generic machines badged up for Currys. Fine until you want to get spares in a couple of years when the warranty runs out. Let's hope you are lucky with it.

Spares are more likely to be available as it's a generic white good, if you know the other brands that share the same OEM, those parts also fit.

There is a Bush badged one which is identical except the compressor is slightly less efficient. 

Doesn't the right to repair mean spare parts have to be available for 10 years. Or was that all just a dream I had?