We had a condensing tumble dried from Bosch. After 22 years of service, I mistakenly thought it died and hastily ordered a new one from Bosch, this time with a heat pump. Then, before the new arrived I realised that I only needed to replace the plug on the old one and it was still working perfectly. We didn’t cancel the new one, and instead put the old one for free on FB. It was gone in 30 minutes, and probably still happily dries someones clothes, but for a huge amount of energy.
The new one isn’t made in Germany and will probably not last over 20 years, but it dries more clothes, loses less heat to the room, doesn’t fill the room with garment fluf, doesn’t cause condensation of water on the walls, displays how long is left for the cycle and beeps when it’s done. Most importantly, taking into account the energy it saved compared to the old one, it probably already paid for itself. I feel a little uncomfortable for the trojan hourse I gave some poor stranger.
On a completely different issue, I have a standaloan freezer from Beko in tha garage. Gave zero problems in the ~9 years we have had it.
