I'm not stupid but I've been caught out about rises in energy prices and the government's cap

Mstty

diystarter7 said:

Mstty said:

Our Tumbledryer costs us £1.68 a week on average for 5 loads. We have decided it's worth it.

Although we have gone down the brand's on the weekly shop. Less Heinz more shop own brand and so far we have offset all inflation costs.(so far)

Less of a lead foot on the car as well has increased mileage by 10 mpg which has offset the high fuel prices.

Really as cheap as that?

As per my previous posts we do not like to hand anything outside or inside other than the few bits in the integral garage that may shrink in drier. So 99.99% of all washing is dried via tumble drier. Speaking with my wife she said we use the drier on average 4.5 times a week. Three runs of 1 hour and two of 45 mins each. Its a B rated condenser drier. how much electric approx are we using?

Reading some of the info on Google link I thought we were paying about 1-80 per hour and now about 2300240p and hour

A bit more confused but it would be good id the drying for a 7/9kg load was about 170p an hour


NB/Edit -  Are you sure Mistty that it's not "1-68p) per load?

Yes and it's an older type vented two settings full blast and economy. 

Two important things we know how long our loads take, we know the bedding time is 45mins. It's not going full blast for that time and that cycle is 1kwh

So two loads of bedding a week 2kwh
3 loads at 1 hour (mixed clothes) 1.25kwh each total 3.75kwh

I shudder when people say they put it on a preset or the Tumbledryer tells them when clothes are dry. Knowing how long a load takes saves you a fortune.

We use two ecoeggs things for softening and it does reduce tumble dryer timing about 5-10%

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@Mstty

Please don’t shudder on our account. Our tumble dryer has a built in moisture detector and an energy monitor. It uses about 1.1kWh on a 8kg load previously spun at 1600RPM. The energy monitor is spot on: checked with a separate energy monitor. Embrace the science.

Alnat1

I find the moisture sensor in our Bosch heat pump dryer works really well and it can be adjusted by 6 settings from iron to wardrobe++.

I also use the dryer eggs and my experiment on the king-sized bedding load showed a 25% reduction in drying time.

Doing 2 loads of washing on the same day might work well as the dryer is already warm when the 2nd load goes in and so should use less electric (not tested that though) might be one for Dolor to answer.