Condensed tumble dry VS heatpump

fireisdangerous

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In the market to get a 9kg tumble dryer. I can get a 9kg heatpump dryer for 280 or there is the same dryer but a condensed version for 229.

Is the heatpump worth the extra. They save energy but take longer to dry is what I keep reading online.
 
heatpump - cheaper to run, low temp so can dry delicates
- more expensive to buy, more complicated so more to break + more costly to fix, longer drying times

where are you getting a heatpump dryer for 280?
 
I don't find our heatpump dryer to take much longer than the older condenser dryer tbh. Mixed cycle is about 1hr10m.

Much cheaper to run too.
 
fireisdangerous said:
Really how comes? that's where I intend to put mine
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Due to the way the heat pump/refrigerant works, Google will explain better than me I'm sure!

If I was you putting it in a garage, I'd get a vented dryer. Don't want the condensed moisture in the house or garage tbh.
 
That's first I have heard that so got book out and looked - must not be in a room that's less than 5c or above 35c - My AEG Lavatherm 59850 Condenser heat pump dryer has been in my garage for last 7 years and it seems to work OK - It will have to stay there as we do not have the room to put it in house.

Good thing with it is once clothes are dry it stops the cycle.

Learn something new every day which is read the book first :rolleyes:
 
The Craig said:
Due to the way the heat pump/refrigerant works, Google will explain better than me I'm sure!

If I was you putting it in a garage, I'd get a vented dryer. Don't want the condensed moisture in the house or garage tbh.
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The moisture is collected in a container or they can be plumbed in.
 
DXP55 said:
That's first I have heard that so got book out and looked - must not be in a room that's less than 5c or above 35c - My AEG Lavatherm 59850 Condenser heat pump dryer has been in my garage for last 7 years and it seems to work OK - It will have to stay there as we do not have the room to put it in house.

Good thing with it is once clothes are dry it stops the cycle.

Learn something new every day which is read the book first :rolleyes:
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I imagine they will infact work, just will require more work from the machine. Then you have the issue of increased chance of failure and potentially guarantee being void. I imagine this (generally) cancels out the energy savings of heat pump vs condenser/vented driers
 
Mine works just fine in the garage even through winter. Never had other dryers so dont know how long they take but normal drying takes about 2-2.5 hours. But you can do a quick one in 1 hour. The quick one does work better in winter as im guessing it acts more like a standard condensing dryer. The normal one takes about 3 hours in winter.
 
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I'm getting a dryer for the garage. Not sure why you'd bother getting a condenser or a heat pump to put in the garage? Surely vented is the way to go? Cheaper, simpler, much more efficient (not so heat pump).
 
The Craig said:
Due to the way the heat pump/refrigerant works, Google will explain better than me I'm sure!

If I was you putting it in a garage, I'd get a vented dryer. Don't want the condensed moisture in the house or garage tbh.
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I got rid of my condensor in the shed for this very reason, it was making everything in the shed mouldy :(
 
TripleT said:
I'm getting a dryer for the garage. Not sure why you'd bother getting a condenser or a heat pump to put in the garage? Surely vented is the way to go? Cheaper, simpler, much more efficient (not so heat pump).
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If they were more efficient, wouldn't vented dryers have a higher energy rating? I'm sure they dry a lot quicker, but a heat pump dryer uses less energy per cycle than a vented or condenser dryer.
 
panthro said:
If they were more efficient, wouldn't vented dryers have a higher energy rating? I'm sure they dry a lot quicker, but a heat pump dryer uses less energy per cycle than a vented or condenser dryer.
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Sorry i meant they were more efficient than a condensing dryer, heat pumps are more efficient than both.
 
We normally put washing on outside rotary dryer but if it needs to be brought in and put in dryer the dryer recognises that it's dry before the 1.40 min cycle is up and turns off and just turns drum every few minutes to stop creases.
As I have a condensing boiler in garage with a waste pipe I have plumbed dryer into that as well - used kit that came with dryer -

This is the first dryer we have ever had so can't compare - Sister in law always buys cheap ones and they do the full cycle time even when clothes are just damp which to me is wasting electric.
 
fireisdangerous said:
Well I don't want to have to drill a whole in my garage for the vent.
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Seems backwards to pay around £100 extra for a less efficient machine which is also more complicated and suffers more failures (generally). You could pay someone to drill the hole for less. Or just use a window like a lot of people (if you have one in the garage). You could probably get away with not bothering in a garage (size and contents dependent) although obviously not ideal.

Trust me I want an all singing all dancing Heat Pump one but then it doesn't really make sense. If you're installing one in a kitchen or utility then yer, but a garage? Drilling a hole seems easier to me.
 
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