Tumble Dryers: how do you survive without one?

[Gall1987]

Doesn't a dryer shrink most clothes? Just hang them up, like most people and they'll dry fine

 

[Jambo]

This thread has resulted in me starting to use my tumble dryer. Happy Days!

OP, you could try a Dri Buddy from JML. It actually looks quite good.

 

[Jonnycoupe]

Since when? You have weighed up the cost of running the heating for the radiators to be on all the time? What about in March/April even summer when it's rainy and you can't use the washing line and it's too hot to have the heating on. Tumble dryers are convenient.

It heats the house with gas?

Not electricity that costs 4 times as much with limited air.

Maybe some people have enough clothes for more than 1 week?

 

[RadoX]

hmm who washes clothes anymore i just buy new ones every week from france, so easy to get there now ive got my jet.

 

[iamdjdz]

In uni we had a random Serbian man living in our house for about a month but he left when he realised he wasn't going to get a tumbledryer.

We recently had to change our tumble dryer at home and we went for one of the condenser models, way way better than the tube outlet ones, for some reason you never have to iron things out of it

 

[Angilion]

Yeah just been looking myself, seems they arn't bad to run these days,

http://www.sust-it.net/energy_saving.php?id=41

Not so bad to run, but the cheapest one to run costs £750 to buy.

 

[Angilion]

So saving approx £20 a month, £5 a week or approx 71p a day to have cloths drying off in the air, making the area damp, take an age to dry, bedding being a nightmare to hang around the house....

Is it me or does it not seem worth the saving?

I seem to have managed without those problems for the last 12 years. I'd like a dryer for the convenience, but I do a lot of washing and it would be expensive to dry it all in a dryer, not to mention the cost of buying a good one new with money I don't have.

When I take clothes out of my washing machine, they're only damp. I have several clothes horses and plenty of space, so that isn't an issue. The only trouble I have with damp in my house is in a small area in one room caused by the level of my back yard and a garden wall joining my house (confirmed by 2 different builders). Oh, and my very small bathroom if I don't use the extractor fan.