Tumble Dryers

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Lona my neighbour calculated that it cost just as much to iron every item than it does to tumble dry and hang or fold straight away!

(she would have done the calculations properly too!)

Thank you GrandmaKT, I didn't realise they cost so little, but I've no room anyway.

Lorna, the cost is between 13p and 35p per hour. My tumble dryer dries a full load of towels in 45 mins! Two or three times a week that doesn't break the bank...

GrandmaKT
Even if I had enough room, which I don't, I couldn't afford to run a tumble dryer! I'm not Amish, just not too well off!

I have an AEG condensing tumble dryer. It's the first one I've had where I haven't had to iron anything. I only use it when I can't hang washing out.

I have a tumble drier but only use it when I can't hang things on the line. The window that I stick the hose out of (or from which I stick the hose!) has jammed, so I bought one of those box thingies that you fill wth cold water and attach the hose. It works really quite well.

If you have any sort of chest complaint, such as asthma, you should not dry washing indoors.

You are lucky petra, as I don't know where our nearest launderette is, or even if we have one these days.

NudeJude Its not often that I'm in the situation of too much washing to cope with, but when I am I just go to the launderette.

I gave a "maid" which has four salts and US hoisted up high in the kitchen loaded with wet washing. Dries overnight

I have a condenser dryer and everything gets put in it. Mine is a Hotpoint and has been modified by the manufacturer but never leave it unattended.

I have a Zanussi condenser tumbler which lives in the Garage as no room in here. I like to dry outside as much as possible, just finishing off in dryer if I must, if things are not too bad after the line I hang them on a clothes horse inside if we have the healting on, gives a nice fresh washing smell too as I only use unperfumed laundry stuff.

I hope I am not tempting fate here, but we have had our dryer for 17 yrs now, so has been a good buy.

GrandmaKT I use mine all the time ,NEVER hang washing out ,even in summer .the isssues with the ones that go on fire is not resolved there are thousands of people still waiting for modifications and people who have had really bad fires who have had no help from the manufacturers ...or their insurance.So I would be careful about which model/make you buy Jalima

I always used to line dry and had a tumbler for emergency use only. However since moving to sheltered accommodation I have communal laundry facilities and tumble everything except one or two extreme delicates, which I dry on an airer in the bathroom.

Towels can take a lot of drying in a tumbler if you don't have a high speed spin on your washing machine - they do come up lovely and fluffy though. If you're not hyper-fastidious about ironing then tumblers can greatly reduce your ironing time - just make sure you hang everything as soon as you take it out or fold it neatly.

I wouldn't buy a combined washer-dryer unless you had lots of money and extremely small drying space - my DS had very high bills when he lived in a furnished inner-city apartment complex.

Overall, make sure you have good ventilation for moisture extraction - all that moisture from damp washing has to go somewhere and you don't want it in your living space.

What are you all? Amish?! You'll be telling me next you take your washing down to the river and beat it on stones! Yes I have a tumble dryer and yes I use it! The only things I don't put in there are 'delicates' which I dry in the airing cupboard. In the summer I hang things out, but not in the winter. I can't imagine why you would have a house full of wet clothes when you have a tumble dryer?

I first bought one 40 years ago because where we lived it was impossible to get nappies dried. We don't use it as a matter of course as I try to line dry but I wouldn't be without one. I always 'bash' the towels around in it for about 10 minutes before they go out on the line anyway.
Have just ordered another one as the present one which we were given a few years ago is very noisy.
We chose a condenser model (Bosch) and you can check the decibel level.
DH doesn't like his socks dried in the tumble drier as he said they shrink! Just check all the labels on clothes - although some can be tumble dried even if they say not to.

We asked the sales person about them catching fire and he assured us that the problems have been resolved.
However, we didn't buy that make anyway.

I use a tumble drier, a Bosch condenser, and use it a lot as I don't have anywhere convenient outside to hang things. Some things are dried over an airer in the utility room, where the boiler is. I don't dry clothes in the house because I don't want to encourage any damp or condensation.

Love my tumble drier..particularly towels come out soft and fluffy. Would recommend getting one that vents outside and nothing fancy....just a hot and cool setting.

I too dry clothes on an airer on the landing and put large items over the banisters. I had a tumble dryer for a short while but it packed up and I didn't bother to replace it.

just be careful of the make,mine burst into flames two years ago and I bought a diffferent make only to find that several are the same dryers with a different label on them check the lists of the affected ones online.I've just swapped with my son as his hasn't been modified and mine has ,so its not a hazard now...or so they say.I never leave it on when I'm not around the house though and I will get it modified but the waiting times are quite long

I don't use a tumble dryer - after seeing what happened when my neighbour's caught fire!!!

We have a Lakeland airer as well and it sits in our very large utility room, so we are lucky not to have dripping stuff round the house.

I don't have a tumble dryer. I use a clothes airer on the landing and put larger items over the bannister. I sometimes put things on the radiators and if my sons want to wash the same day as me I use the second clothes airer in my bedroom though it takes longer to dry there. I had a tumble dryer years ago but feel it's expensive to run and bulky to store.

Yes Kittye I use mine a lot too, it certainly does cut back on ironing. Magic! Drying clothes on radiators promotes mould growth which produce spores, not good for the chest.