Would you still consider buying a vented tumble dryer?

anon_ymous

I have only ever had a vented dryer when i rented a room in uni, ages ago

How impatient are people? I find that my heat pump tumble dryer didn't actually take much longer than my condenser

Also are you sure you want to pay the electricity prices of a vented one? Though this depends on how often you dry, and how cheap you can get your dryer. If someone is giving it away for free, then electricity costs matter less 

anon_ymous

ic said:

I got a heat pump dryer 18 months ago, A+++ rated, previous to that we only had a combined washer-dryer, which we only used for drying bed sheets.  Normally a load dries in about 90 mins - however it always shows a worse case of 4hrs when starting.  I can't compare to vented, but have no complaints - its also hardly registers on our electric bill so we are comfortable running it through winter - summer we use the line still.  If anything does come out damp, it dries in seconds/minutes given chance to air.  The dryer is plumbed to the waste, so we don't have to empty any tanks.

I also have an A+++-10% dryer here, and tbh it's made me lazier

I figure that "if one takes an electricity cost of 25p/kWh and given that my heat pump tumble dryer has used an average of just 0.5 kWh to dry my clothes, that's just 12.5p"

That's why I dry my clothes in the summer in the tumble dryer. It helps that my washing machine spins at 1600 rpm instead of 1400 rpm too