White Goods - Tumble dryer

LMSC

Thx for the update Dave. I thought something is wrong my iPhone! 😊

John_Yossarian

DavecUK It is back, everything works 😀

DavecUK

John_Yossarian It is back, everything works 😀

It is, but sadly, no everything doesn’t work as it should…fortunately most of the things are invisible to you guys, but some of my levers no longer work as they should. Hopefully will be fixed in the fullness of time.

John_Yossarian

DavecUK I hope it will get sorted out.

PortafilterProcrastinator

DavecUK That’s interesting, we were warned of them by more than one outlet.

Oh well, maybe next time.

DavecUK

PortafilterProcrastinator If you had one in a garage or shed, then yes at about6C it won’t get got enough. In a homes utility room though, even if the house was unheated, that local environment would soon be warm enough for it to work.

I love mine…really good and with no fire worries or cloths damage…minimal creasing too.

LMSC

The current TD runs in the utility. It’s well lit and has a range of 10C - 13C in winter. The room is really warm when the dryer runs. The only challenge is a lack of ventilation as there are no windows. We open the utility door slightly to let some fresh air in when the TD runs.

John_Yossarian

LMSC A neighbour made a hole in the wall and installed extractor fan and solved the problem.

LMSC

John_Yossarian Thanks. That’s an option we are look into, given the lack of space for a window.

John_Yossarian

LMSC If you are going to move to heat pump tumble drier making a hole in the wall might not be necessary as we have got ours in the kitchen and never felt the need to ventilate the room.

LMSC

John_Yossarian That’s very useful. My family isn’t keen on breaking the wall for extractor fan. They think it will make the utility colder in winter and are ok to slightly open the utility door when the machine run.

I am waiting for parts to see if we can give it some life. Otherwise, heat pump is what we will get.

Will keep you posted. Thanks mate.

DavecUK

LMSC I am waiting for parts to see if we can give it some life. Otherwise, heat pump is what we will get.

My old tumble drier non condenser still works, but I would never go back to a non heat pump drier…

LMSC

DavecUK Just curious, if your old TD is still working, why did you buy another TD (heat pump)? Thx

John_Yossarian

LMSC Electricity bill? An old tumble drier can be up to (and more) 500 kW per annum, whilst a quality heat pump can be below 200 kW.

DavecUK

LMSC Just curious, if your old TD is still working, why did you buy another TD (heat pump)? Thx

The energy savings are enormous. I think the old one cost at least 3 times more than the current one and didn’t do the clothes any good. The old run ran into around £2.70 minimum per dry, even more in winter as it was in the shed. The heat pump unit costs around 70p and holds a much larger load. In 5-8 years it will be cost neutral, more convenient and better for clothes.

In the same way my 16 year old fridge still worked…but I purchased an inverter fridge (Samsung) for around £600 on a good discount (it was normally £850 or £900). It’s colder than my own fridge, which I don’t think was getting anywhere near cold enough. I did the numbers before hand and it’s saving even more energy than I thought (my fridge must have got inefficient after 15 years). Payback is likely to be within 4 years on electricity savings alone….and I have a better fridge while it pays back.

It’s not always cost effective worth hanging on to older tech or worn out stuff…

P.S. My old plasma TV being another thing I will never turn on again 47W per hour…no way.

Systemic

John_Yossarian LMSC Electricity bill? An old tumble drier can be up to (and more) 500 kW per annum, whilst a quality heat pump can be below 200 kW.

I was skeptical until I saw my son’s Grundig heat pump dryer in action - he lived in an apartment so drying was a problem. Machine was very efficient.

Nightrider_1uk

DavecUK Samsung

I would never ever buy another Samsung fridge. Had one of those American side by side jobs, (Quite expensive at the time £1100) utter rubbish, forever breaking down. badly designed. Put me off all sampson gear. White goods use Miele and Bosch now

Systemic

Cuprajake In march 2021 when we moved into our new house, we got a new hoover washer dryer, and a Kenwood fridge freezer. Both integrated.

I think developers do deals with manufacturers to the detriment of the customer. Same thing happened to us when we moved into a new house eons ago. We had no end of trouble with the integrated oven - Philips I recall. After the third fault, replaced it. Talking to neighbours - several had same problems. Coincidence?

DavecUK

Nightrider_1uk Put me off all sampson gear.

I bought Samsung…I think Sampson must be the chinese look alike brand 😜Seriously it’s my first Samsung product, early days so far, only about 5 months in, but it seems very good. I wouldn’t personally buy the “American Style” as I’m not sure the format works well using the standard parts (standard top and bottom FF) they still put in them?

That said the Samsung did arrive damaged, on the inside because a factory worker obviously didn’t get the memo and was taping the wrong places for transit. This meant the glass shelves would come loose internally,, go forward and damage the inner door skin! It was fractured and holed in 3 places. in fairness to Samsung, they had an engineer out with a new door within a few days. interestingly the engineer said he saw this a lot and was very used to replacing the doors. Clearly no feedback goes to the factory and this individual (doing the taping), is probably costing Samsung double what he gets paid each year.

Pompeyexile

We have an AEG condensing tumble dryer as we were not able to have an outlet - and did not want to have to open a window to put an outlet pipe out every time we wanted to use it - and have had it for over ten years and it has never let us down and does a stirling job. Having said that we try to use it as little as possible now given the hike in leccy.

We had an American style fridge freezer made by Samsung that had a flap in the door where you could get your milk or juice or wine without having to open the whole door. It lasted again easily ten years with no problems. When it did give up the ghost we tried for another but they didn’t do one with a flap in the door which we really liked so went for a Beko which did. Already after only two years we have had an engineer out three times had about four parts replaced - including the whole freezer door - and once it just decided to go into an auto defrost mode cycle it wouldn’t stop and defosted the freezer compartment. Apart from that it has been great…ahem!

DavecUK

Pompeyexile I will never ever buy another Beko product. Had a washing machine that literally took about 4 hours to wash, no quick cycle and within 18 months the drum fell off the spider. Beko, no help at all and didn’t want to know. I scrapped the machine as it never washed very well anyway, compared to the Miele that preceded it. The Mielie didn’t last as long as the Hoover that preceded it.

So I purchased an AREG for half the price of the Miele with a 5 year Warranty….I figure even if I have to buy 2 in 10 years, it will have lasted longer than the Miele….washes good too.

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