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Our Beko Heat Pump Tumble Dryer is doing a grand job - 4 1/2 years old and still going strong.
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it really doesn't. besides we don't heat our conservatory in winter anyway unless we specifically plan to use it.
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Ordered my LG heat pump yesterday mid-day and its arrived at 8am 
I mean... why wouldn't it work? People are using heat pumps outside to heat their homes. Sure its a bit less efficient but should still work.
A heat pump dryer uses a compressor like a fridge to condense the moisture from the internal hot air, then uses the heat from that compressor process to warm the incoming air to reduce the heating needed. It's basically reclaiming the heat rather than venting it to the outside. It will still use a heating element when required if it has one although the input air being warm already will reduce the heating required.
The output exhaust does have some residual moisture and heat. I know this because if the room is cold it will have condensation on the windows and it is warmer. However the heat pump reduces the energy required.
In terms of getting a dried result - all I can say is from experience the Bosch heat pump doesn't have a problem in an unheated conservatory. The program adjusts for the level of dryness of the clothes and doesn't purely go off programme time so it doesn't bake them. So good performance and lower energy use - makes it worth it in my opinion.
Oh and the Bosch has three filters - two in the chamber at the base of the door - those are the ones you can just pull out and clean between washes. They're a double layer filter basically. The third is a block of foam behind a square access panel on the front. Simple to open the panel and then 1/4 turn on the locks and the filter comes out. Just use a hoover on the foam block and use hover on the element just to clean it all up and jobs a goodun - only need todo that once in a blue moon.
The output exhaust does have some residual moisture and heat. I know this because if the room is cold it will have condensation on the windows and it is warmer. However the heat pump reduces the energy required.
In terms of getting a dried result - all I can say is from experience the Bosch heat pump doesn't have a problem in an unheated conservatory. The program adjusts for the level of dryness of the clothes and doesn't purely go off programme time so it doesn't bake them. So good performance and lower energy use - makes it worth it in my opinion.
Oh and the Bosch has three filters - two in the chamber at the base of the door - those are the ones you can just pull out and clean between washes. They're a double layer filter basically. The third is a block of foam behind a square access panel on the front. Simple to open the panel and then 1/4 turn on the locks and the filter comes out. Just use a hoover on the foam block and use hover on the element just to clean it all up and jobs a goodun - only need todo that once in a blue moon.
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Any recommendations for a heat pump that doesn’t take forever to dry a load of washing? Bought a Hoover one when money was tight and the old condenser one died but it averages 3 hours for a load. With kids it is slowly driving me insane.
Faster and heatpump just don't go hand in hand. Mines typically 3h to 5h but uses almost no energy.
I suspect that the larger load capacity may mean a larger heat pump that may help. In the end it not how much heat it can cook the clothes but rather the speed it can condense the moisture. If you just up the heat but it will have an upper humidity limit anyway so the better condensing the faster it will be.
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My LG one in the conservatory doesn't take 3 hours. Also, what drum speed is your washing machine?
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Some types of tumble dryer will not work in cold locations. Check the minimum operating temperature.
I have a simple vented, but that's because it's in a cold garage.
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Our condenser drier was terrible. Kicked more heat and moisture out into the room than the condensate pipe/tank. It was only a cheap model though, so maybe higher end condenser driers are better?
I've since replaced it with a Hisense heat pump drier and it's much better in terms of energy use and excess moisture/heat. As above, takes maybe 3 hrs instead of 2,' but this doesn't cause us any real issues and it's gentler on clothes as it runs much cooler.
I've since replaced it with a Hisense heat pump drier and it's much better in terms of energy use and excess moisture/heat. As above, takes maybe 3 hrs instead of 2,' but this doesn't cause us any real issues and it's gentler on clothes as it runs much cooler.
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We had a Hoover condensor and it took forever to dry stuff.
We replaced it with a Sharp KD-NHH0S7GW21 when the Hoover started making death squeel noises and it's very rare the replacement takes more than 2 hours to dry pretty much load we've thrown at it
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5 hours? I’m a single dad I’d never get the washing through on a weekend
It’s a fairly decent LG, no idea what speed but the clothes come out pretty dry.
Seen some reviews with people saying they’re doing loads in an hour but tend to trust opinions on here over review sites.
All depends on the setting used, you can use a faster setting and a full 9kg load will take 1h but use a load of electric, but if your doing that all the time you might as well have just got a condenser dryer. The 5h time is for the no heat setting which I guess is similar to a room with a dehumidifier in it.
This is where i'm at right now, it would take 10 years of cost with my current vented one doing 3 loads a week to match just the purchase price of a heat pump drier. Maybe one day my 20 year old drier will pack in beyond repair..
We've found splitting the load in half works much better than trying to dry the lot in one go: we pull bigger items out and hang on an airer, put the smaller stuff in the dryer first. Once dry, put the bigger items in.
We've got a 12kg washer and 10kg dryer (both Hisense) - sometimes we'll split the wet loads and give them an extra 1400rpm spin to remove as much water as possible.
Heat-pump dryers are frustratingly slow, but we've found they're so much cheaper to run that we can afford to use it pretty much 24/7.
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Just noticed the LG heat pump i bought end of Jan is now £150 more