My great tumble dryer debate

matelodave

If you really want to know how much the dryer actually uses then you need to monitor its consumption over the whole cycle, not by just taking a spot measurement and then extrapolating.

A TAPO P110 energy monitoring power plug will give you much more info https://www.tapo.com/en/faq/239/

you can get a P110 from Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-Tapo-Monitoring-Required-P110/dp/B097YBXHTW?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1, they were only £9.99 last week

PennineAcute

Heat Pump all the way.  My last dryer took approximately 2.5 kWh of electricity to dry an average load in about an hour (heat sensor).  My Heat Pump dryer uses approximately 1 kWh of electricity to dry an average load in two hours.

I will take the extra hour of time for using less than half the amount of electricity any day. 

I will add that I only bought it as I came into a little bit of money.

SAMSUNG Series 5 DV80TA020AE/EU 8 kg Heat Pump Tumble Dryer - White - £580

QrizB

Leew1988 said:

What am I missing here? Quite eye opening or just confused im not sure

The "price per cycle" in the article that you quoted seem to assume 2 hours of drying in the vented or condenser machines, to dry a full 8kg load of laundry.

That's consistent with your current dryer.

The reason your dryer seems to be cheaper is that you aren't running it for 2 hours. But then I very much doubt that your full bed set is 8kg of laundry!

fryedslyce

The best way to reduce the cost of tumble drying is to purchase a spin dryer 2800rpm, this will extract far more water from your clothes meaning they will require significantly less time in the tumble.

Qyburn

Leew1988 said:

I guess what I am wanting to know is my tumbler as stupidly expensive as these articles make out with it being a vented or is mine fairly cheap because it seems fairly cheap to me? I can put a full bed set in mine on high heat for 60 minutes and its bone dry

Yours is the most expensive type to run on a like for like basis. Whether it actually costs you that much depends on how long and how often you use it.

We have a condenser dryer, nearly as expensive to run, but it's not worth changing because we don't use it much. 

Reed_Richards

matelodave said:

A TAPO P110 energy monitoring power plug will give you much more info https://www.tapo.com/en/faq/239/

you can get a P110 from Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-Tapo-Monitoring-Required-P110/dp/B097YBXHTW?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1, they were only £9.99 last week

Yes, I bought myself another one last week for £9.99 and was appalled to see that they had gone up in price by 35%!

markin

People on the forum did tests last year, measuring energy, the water extracted and reduced dryer time, Doing a second spin is worth the energy used. 

The vented vs condenser saving won't show up on direct use, They will show up as a Gas heating reduction as the heat stays in the house, and you aren't blowing out your heated room air.