Spend 400-700 quid and you can have a heat pump tumble drier which will pay back over a decade or so
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What "man jobs" have you done today?
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Yup. I have a heat pump drier and it dries the washing, I'm not sure what else you need feature wise! It uses a fraction of the energy of a condenser drier which uses a lot less than a vented drier. The downside is they take a bit longer and they don't work well in an unheated outbuilding in winter.
They used to be expensive but not so much anymore. I just popped onto the Curry's website and they start at £265, the cheapest vented drier they sell is £190. They list 95 heat pump driers, 42 condenser driers and 9 vented, that probably tells you all you need to know where things are going.
That said, if you already had a working drier, I wouldn't spend the money replacing a functioning machine. £300 is a lot of electric to make up, even in this climate.
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It also depends on usage, our drier is vented but gets used maybe once a month so the payback time for a heatpump would be centuries .
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That hole in the wall is not going to be good for your energy consumption. If possible, I'd try and insulate it somehow. Neat job though!
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On the topic of insulation and energy usage, we have a small "utility cupboard" in our downstairs bathroom which houses our washing machine and the previous owners also had a dryer in here too. They left the big gaping hole where their dryer used to vent out through (much like what you have fit @UberTiger) which I have just sealed over using some silicone and a plastic cover i had lying around.
On the outside of the vent on the external wall there is a flappy vent where it vented out, would it be diligent to shove some spare insulation in the hole and then seal that side up too on the outside (with gaffer tape or a similar plastic cover)? it's already an abnormally cold room compared to the rest of the house so anything I can do to aid insulation and keep it warm(er) is helpful!
We aren't likely to get a dryer in the immediate future and if we did it would be a heat pump so no need to externally vent.
On the outside of the vent on the external wall there is a flappy vent where it vented out, would it be diligent to shove some spare insulation in the hole and then seal that side up too on the outside (with gaffer tape or a similar plastic cover)? it's already an abnormally cold room compared to the rest of the house so anything I can do to aid insulation and keep it warm(er) is helpful!
We aren't likely to get a dryer in the immediate future and if we did it would be a heat pump so no need to externally vent.
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We have a Bosch heat pump dryer, with a meter at the socket, never seen its power draw go above 450w. I know they take longer to dry, but my mate, a Bosch engineer says the warmer the room it operates in, the quicker it dries, strangely enough.... ours in in a cupboard, and dries bedding / towels in about an hour.
He also said never put in the garage, because it will be very poor performance in the winter. Heat pumps need a good ambient temperature to really function.
on my fixed rate deal (22.5p / kWh) costs about 10p per hour to run, not too bad I think.
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100% yes to that one.
Take the cover off the outside, spray in expanding foam, let it dry, trim the excess and put the cover back on. Job jobbed.
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Great shout, much better option. Will pick a can up one day this week.
This reminds me of when I drilled hole for oil boiler flue.Used a core drill bit to take out a big 114mm hole for a dryer vent.
Annoyingly a wooden gate frame had been secured to the outside wall exactly where I wanted to drill through, so had to gauge an angle and hope for the best that I'd come out in the right spot to clear the post. Seemed to work out just right though!
Also spent an entire 5ah battering getting 75% of the way through, so had to wait ages to get a full recharge to finish.
Borrowed work Kango and attacked wall then it stopped cutting just spinning -took me age's to twig the core bit was only half a brick deep and needed clearing out.
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Sorted out a stiff window handle by spraying some silicone lube through the little straw into the locking mechanism, sliding bits and also did the hinges too. The result was so satisfying that I went around the house and did the rest of the windows.
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The Mrs still complains a bit about our 150mm hole for our cooker hood (there's a set of flaps on the outside) The hood on turbo mode actually pulls open the French doors that connect the kitchen and living room Oddly we don't have condensation/damp issues any more I put in a 110mm hole for the bathroom shower extractor too which also gets comments.. however we do get some draught through the house if the doors aren't closed on windy days. The mrs opens all the windows often too.
We went for a Bosch heat pump drier too. Previously I've had a flue based. It really is good and saves drilling yet another hole in the house walls.
(there's a set of flaps on the outside) The hood on turbo mode actually pulls open the French doors that connect the kitchen and living room Oddly we don't have condensation/damp issues any more I put in a 110mm hole for the bathroom shower extractor too which also gets comments.. however we do get some draught through the house if the doors aren't closed on windy days. The mrs opens all the windows often too.We went for a Bosch heat pump drier too. Previously I've had a flue based. It really is good and saves drilling yet another hole in the house walls.
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Blistered my thumb and index finger clipping in electric UFH last night - should be tiled today - wish we'd taken it under the shower tray but we know that for the next one.
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More so the "landing" of the shower tray rather than where the actual showering takes place.
The two tiles in the top right hand corner of the photo are not heated, or under the shower heads, I'd have liked them warm.
The two tiles in the top right hand corner of the photo are not heated, or under the shower heads, I'd have liked them warm.
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I'm sure you can get sprung flaps (lol) so wind lifting the flaps (lol again) is less of an issue.
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Presumably you want the water to dry quickly after a shower and for it to be warm when you walk on it?