Heat pump tumble dryer

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Mstty said:

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?

It does, either 7 or 10 years depending on the appliance category.  It doesn't specify how affordable the parts need to be though.

Bizarrely, I seem to recall that tumble dryers were excluded from the legislation.

gazapc

My Beko heat pump dryer is great. I previously had a washer dryer and it dries more clothes, quicker, and cheaper. For a reasonable load it is less than 1 kwh.

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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.

For us it is mainly time. 10 minutes per load to hang it out and collect it vs 30 seconds to load the tumble dryer.

At 4 loads per week that is 2000 minutes (33 hrs) per year saved.

I'll be having solar/battery installed at somepoint which will reduce the cost.

To caveat, we are otherwise low users, about 2400 kwh per year. Dryer is one of the new rating A or A* ones.

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gazapc said:

My Beko heat pump dryer is great. I previously had a washer dryer and it dries more clothes, quicker, and cheaper. For a reasonable load it is less than 1 kwh.  Also easy to clean the innards where lint and fluff might gather.

Had my Beko heat pump dryer for 1 year - your usage figures tally pretty much with mine.  Compared to an old Beko condensor this is more efficient, costing less to run when required.  

MWT

Mstty said:

Our Indesit vented tumble dryer costs 1kwh for bedding and 1.2kwh for a full load on full roast temperature with two ecoeggs. It's a very simple machine no sensors or loads of settings it's either full roast or half roast and a dial for the time. We know how long things take .

I can't see a heat pump dryer saving us enough money. 

We also use a vented dryer and have similarly low power consumption, we just couldn't make the numbers work to move to a heat-pump dryer.

JohnPo

I replaced a failing 15 year old vented tumble dryer with a Beko Heat Pump Dryer in February this year.  I have not done a thorough analysis of the electricity usage but from I what I can it uses a third of electricity that the old Hotpoint one did.

Also worth noting a vented dryer draws air from inside and sends a majority of heat it generates externally, in winter when we use the dryer the most, all the energy utilised by the heat pump dryer stays where it is installed.  In my case that is in a utility next to the kitchen and therefore the heat stays in the house (I blocked up the old vent with insulation material so no drafts either, which we use to get).

DeeQS

I have a A+++ Samsung 9kg heat pump dryer. I’ve had no issues with it. It was pouring with rain on the south coast yesterday, so I couldn’t dry outside. A drying cycle took about 2 hours and used 500w of electricity.

Raxiel

We've had a 9kg A++ Bosch heat pump drier for almost six years now. It's had a lot of use in that time, even in the summer because it was so (relatively) cheap to run and convenient to load, we've been very happy with it.

We've reigned it in with the current rises & weather, but I don't think we'll be able to avoid using it during the winter.

One change I have made is to plug the outlet into the drain. We'll have to empty the reservoir into the sink when it gets full now, but at least that way it can cool to room temperature first and let us keep a little bit more energy within the house. Probably a trivial difference but its a trivial amount of extra work too. That water can do double duty as a pre-soak on the stuff waiting for the dishwasher too.

2pints

I own a Beko heat pump and according to the manual it's 2.47 kwh per full load, so I multiply that by the unit cost (52.6) to give me my price to dry the washing, approx £1.30 per load. Doesn't seem that cheap (hate using the dryer but don't have space to dry in the house come winter time)

macman

Mstty said:

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?

Manufacturers have a grace period of 2 years, so it won't be enforceable before July '23.

Spies

2pints said:

I own a Beko heat pump and according to the manual it's 2.47 kwh per full load, so I multiply that by the unit cost (52.6) to give me my price to dry the washing, approx £1.30 per load. Doesn't seem that cheap (hate using the dryer but don't have space to dry in the house come winter time)

That seems quite poor, mine is 1.89kWh but I'm yet to see it hit 1kWh even when drying towels on the highest dryness level.