Heat pump tumble dryers

matelodave

Do they really save you money? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz_YJsv9wTY

Scot_39

Think I'll stick to my airer racks and my big box chain iirc c£140 10l dehumidifier to help keep home dry.

I had a washer / condesning dryer unit - when it failed - after a year of the above combo - I decided no way was I paying the extra for a dryer I only used once in a blue moon.

Let alone the £100s extra for a heat pump version.

Now if I had a few young kids and really needed a dryer - that would be different.

HillStreetBlues

I've had two tumble driers both vented, the one from the the 80's the timer pack in so just use it now for drying dustsheets etc.

TroubledTarts

We noticed that using the tumble dryer has reduced our hayfever. No sitting on the washing line capturing all the pollen. We use it all year round

We have an old vented dryer it can fry the bedding in less than one hour at 2.1kwh or run at half the power for 90 mins for 1.8kwh for things that can't take full power.

Run at Octopus Cosy rates that's 27p or 23p.

We have an ASHP but couldn't be bother waiting hours for a heat pump tumble dryer to do its thing and as our vented tumble dryer only costs £160 to replace I think it's a no brainer for the practicality if fast drying and cheap to buy in the first place.

HalfFull

We bough a HP tumble dryer when we had 3 children under 2 all in non-disposable nappies. Over the 5 (I think) year warranty period, on projected usage the savings against a vented version made it pay for it's self.  Those children are now 18 and off to university, and it is still going strong.  Over the years I have "de-fluffed" it 4 or 5 times, I believe this is commonly called 'maintenance and servicing', and it's needed 2 new plastic door handles ( about 9.99 off ebay)

The low power setting is about 500W,so most days, even dull ones, it can run the 2-3 hours it take to do a dry off the solar PV for free. Finally in winter because it doesn't vent all the energy used heat the house too.

So yes they do save money,  by my very very rough calculations I'm about 3-4000 pounds ahead over the life time

TroubledTarts

HalfFull said:

We bough a HP tumble dryer when we had 3 children under 2 all in non-disposable nappies. Over the 5 (I think) year warranty period, on projected usage the savings against a vented version made it pay for it's self.  Those children are now 18 and off to university, and it is still going strong.  Over the years I have "de-fluffed" it 4 or 5 times, I believe this is commonly called 'maintenance and servicing', and it's needed 2 new plastic door handles ( about 9.99 off ebay)

The low power setting is about 500W,so most days, even dull ones, it can run the 2-3 hours it take to do a dry off the solar PV for free. Finally in winter because it doesn't vent all the energy used heat the house too.

So yes they do save money,  by my very very rough calculations I'm about 3-4000 pounds ahead over the life time

Our vented is on 7 days a week and that costs £1.75 a week or £91 a year.

How many years have you had you heat pump and what did it cost?

I reckon yours running the same on the same tariff as us would be £24 a year so two a saving of £67 a year. It's a good saving but probably not £3000-4000 that's a bit daily Mail headline imo.

Petriix

My vented dryer is on for ~ 10 hours per week for about half the year. It's permanently on 'delicate' mode using 1.4kW at peak. My smart plug says it used 37kWh in January and 33kWh in February but only 12kWh so far in March as it's been so mild. Call it 200kWh per year. At 7p per kWh that's £14.

Assuming I could pickup a second hand heat pump drier for £140 on gumtree and that it magically ran for free, it would only take 10 years to break even. 

HalfFull

TroubledTarts said:

HalfFull said:

We bough a HP tumble dryer when we had 3 children under 2 all in non-disposable nappies. Over the 5 (I think) year warranty period, on projected usage the savings against a vented version made it pay for it's self.  Those children are now 18 and off to university, and it is still going strong.  Over the years I have "de-fluffed" it 4 or 5 times, I believe this is commonly called 'maintenance and servicing', and it's needed 2 new plastic door handles ( about 9.99 off ebay)

The low power setting is about 500W,so most days, even dull ones, it can run the 2-3 hours it take to do a dry off the solar PV for free. Finally in winter because it doesn't vent all the energy used heat the house too.

So yes they do save money,  by my very very rough calculations I'm about 3-4000 pounds ahead over the life time

Our vented is on 7 days a week and that costs £1.75 a week or £91 a year.

How many years have you had you heat pump and what did it cost?

I reckon yours running the same on the same tariff as us would be £24 a year so two a saving of £67 a year. It's a good saving but probably not £3000-4000 that's a bit daily Mail headline imo.

The best part of 20 years,   20 years ago those sort of smart tariffs didn't exist, it was standard rate or E7, which we didn't have, so that skews it.
Also 3 babies in washable nappies ( We peaked around 12-5 terry nappies a day!) , then 3 children getting filthy at school needing a clean uniform washed and dryed by tomorrow, now 5 adults, The 4-6 load day in not unusual here at all. Say 15-18000 loads over the years, add to it the towels and bedding of our holiday lets, and it really mounts up. And at that rate even now you can't do all of that on 7p EV charge slots, so about 70% is at standard rate during the day, or free on solar  

I just checked our smart plug, a double spun load on ours is 0.5kWh, compared to 2.1kWh quoted above. That's a saving of around 30,000kWh so far. So at an average of 10p/kWr, over the last 20 years that would 3000, and I think I actually do better than that.

20 years ago a HP dryer cost 700UKP, and a vented one still about 150. We previously had vented ones, they never lasted and as the saying goes, buy cheap, pay twice, or in the case of dryers, three or four times...

Qyburn

TroubledTarts said:
Our vented is on 7 days a week and that costs £1.75 a week or £91 a year.

That looks like a very low price per kWh, are you running it overnight on an off-peak or EV tariff?