Tumble driers
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The most efficient is to hang your clothes outside. If a drier is a must heat pump models are the most efficient but they take a long time to dry a load, don’t work well below 10 degrees and a significantly more expensive to buy.
what part of the drier has died? most vented driers are very simple things that can easily be fixed rather than replaced.
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This. I bought a heat pump TD and while it can take 3-4 hours to dry a load, it’s extremely efficient.
Heat pumps start at about £400 now so it is getting tempting to switch.
Our vented dryer is rated at 6kw a cycle in the manual. We only use it to finish things off as they take forever to dry inside so probably using between 2-3kw.
Heatpumps seem to use about a 1/3 of the energy consumption of a vented dryer so as long as it doesn't break within a few years it could pay for itself.
Edit: might not work well in a cold garage though.
Our vented dryer is rated at 6kw a cycle in the manual. We only use it to finish things off as they take forever to dry inside so probably using between 2-3kw.
Heatpumps seem to use about a 1/3 of the energy consumption of a vented dryer so as long as it doesn't break within a few years it could pay for itself.
Edit: might not work well in a cold garage though.
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Our heat pump dryer is a cheapish Candy model and takes a couple of hours to dry a load. The clothes come out a lot softer than they would if they dried on the line. All the water collects in a container on the door and that just gets poured down the sink.
Very pleased overall
Very pleased overall
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