tumble dryer withdrawal pains

It's a Bush.
I bought it on ebay, from the ao outlet as a second.
It cost £110. Bargain!!

I just checked.
It was actually £119 and is a vented, graded, 3kg mini dryer.
I bought the condenser box thing on ebay too, so it doesnt needed a hose out of the window.

I love alone & have a tumble dryer but only use it in the winter for drying towels and duvet covers.
I have a JML Dribuddy that I use a couple of times per week for drying everything else - it's absolutely brilliant and stuff hardly needs ironing as it dries on hangers inside the cocoon.
Over the last year or so, I've recommended it to lots of people as it's easy to fold up and store for space saving and is really cheap to run.
There is a knack to organising stuff and maximising space inside - dressing gown on 2 hangers, smalls & socks looped over the arms, jeans hung over trousers hangers, etc but you figure it out.
In the summer, everything is dried outside, but on warm wet summer days, it'd be too hot for radiators, so I use my Dribuddy again.

I 'live alone' 🤣

I almost plumped for one of those, but reviews were very mixed, and the price difference between brands was bewildering.

Ours is sitting redundant in the garage as we don't have room downstairs. But we have a room upstairs which is perfect for a "drying room" in which we leave the window ajar and close the door. Perfectly dried washing, just like it's been outside!

MissAdventure

I almost plumped for one of those, but reviews were very mixed, and the price difference between brands was bewildering.

We have one, from Lakeland. I bought it when DD1 and family were living here for a few months, between houses, and they had clothes that couldn’t be tumble dried (they’re posher than us 😂). I’m not impressed. It takes ages to dry things, and even though the running cost per hour is very low, I worked out that it cost about the same to dry a full load as it was for the 70 minutes in the tumble dryer. I’m guessing it’s kinder on the clothes though.

V3ra

My Beko 8kg A++ tumble drier is 900w.

It has a sensor whereby it stops when the laundry is dry. I take things out, put them straight on a hanger and they're ready to put away.

My iron is 2400w.

So are you having to do more ironing because you're not using the tumble dryer?
There might not be much between them as regards electricity consumption 🤷

My friend did some calculations and found that it used less electricity and was therefore cheaper to put a load in the tumble drier, take it straight out and hang or fold it than to iron that amount of laundry.

Has anyone any experience with using a dehumidifier to help dry washing indoors?

I have heard they are excellent, and very economical.
I also watch a couple on YouTube who are very au fait with prices, and units, and all that stuff.

He says the cost is really tiny to use a dehumidifier.

Callistemon21 I am more than happy to believe your friend's calculations, well done them 😇

It switched off automatically when it decided my clothes we ' cupboard dry' they were far from dry!! I would switch it on again but it would only tumble for about 3 minutes before again telling me clothes were cupboard dry!? If I wanted to simply pop things in for a short time ( clothes that had almost dried on their own) it refused to do that .

Shelflife I use the "Extra Dry" setting on mine, rather than the "Cupboard Dry."
I think that might be the setting for things that go in the airing cupboard to finish off, though I could be wrong.
(I don't have an airing cupboard anyway!).

If I need to put things back in for a bit longer than the timer has decided they need, I have a 30 or 45 minutes option as well and I can decide for myself when to stop it.

www.gransnet.com/forums/house_and_home/1327783-Dehumidifier-recommendations-needed-please

Granmarderby10 here you are from last year.
Dehumidifiers for general condensation and laundry drying.

I use mine as little as possible but am reassured that it's there!
I would never leave it running if I'm not in the house due to hearing about 'dryer fire'. Also for same reason would empty as soon as drying was finished. This morning is gorgeous however so my TD will sit and sulk once again

When I needed a replacement fridge, AO had it at the cheapest price, however, I checked on the Boots site and it was on sale for the same price. Apparently Boots use AO for their electricals, who did the delivery. I also got all the Boots points to use when I needed stuff from Boots.

I’ve had a tumble drier all of my married life and do not begrudge the running costs even though the cost of electricity has increased. I thought it had given up the ghost recently and looked at replacement costs. What a shock that gave me, couldn’t believe some of the prices. Turns out that it was too cold in the garage for the tumbler to operate so I’ve not had to replace it thankfully. We used to have licensed premises so tumble drying the bar towels was my only option in the winter months.

I have one of those concertina airers in my large hot tank cupboard and turn on the dehumidifier in there if I'm drying anything thick. It's obviously slower than a dryer but does work pretty well and uses much less power. I think it cost around £50 in Argos some years ago.
If I do a towel wash I tend to use the bathroom towel rails once they're just damp.
I do have a tumble dryer with a heat pump which isn't too expensive to use, but I don't really feel the need as I never need things drying very quickly,

Ours is ancient, only 2 settings, hot and less hot. But I use it very little now - most washing is dried indoors (small garden, no washing line) and funnily enough, we’ve never had any damp.
Possibly that’s because we open windows a fair bit, but if we did have damp, I’d use a dehumidifier. We once had some damp in the loft and the amount of water the dehumidifier collected so quickly, was astonishing.

I coped quite well without a tumble dryer, but when we moved the previous owners had had one and I needed to buy one to fill the hole. It was quite basic, and for emergencies only, apart from fluffing towels. I tend not to put a wash on if the weather looks iffy.

Last year I asked GNs for recommendations for a spin dryer as my washing machine sometimes spun ...and sometimes didn't although it washed well. And I don't want to replace it just yet.

I bought an English Electric spin dryer on the internet as neither Currys nor J Lewis stock them any longer.

It's brilliant and even when the w machine has spun normally, it gets another pint or so of water out of the load. Then the washing has a blow in the garden if it's not raining and a quick air near the radiators. Done. It sounds long winded. But it suits me fine. Although it makes me feel a tad old fashioned.

Granmarderby10

Has anyone any experience with using a dehumidifier to help dry washing indoors?

Yes, me! When I downsized I decided not to have a tumble dryer. I did buy a washing machine with spin speed of 1600. I hang washing outside if it’s a fine day. If it’s not dry I put it on a rack in the spare room with my dehumidifier running on laundry mode. The washing is bone dry next morning and the dehumidifier has a bucketful of water inside it! Cost £180, but it’s cheap to run.

I have a tumble drier but my best purchase? A dehumidifier! I have an airer and I wedge it in the bath and put the dehumidifier in the bathroom (plugged into the socket in our bedroom). I switch it on for a few hours and my washing dries quickly without making the rest of the house damp. Apparently they are very cheap to run.

We generally have bought washer/dryers since the children left home! Now my OH has retired the main bathroom could be mistaken for a laundry room with washing everywhere. Mainly hanging from the long shower rail.

I miss my conservatory and clothes line more than anything but at least, hopefully, we won’t get marooned indoors or kept in hospital because of steps and stairs.

We brought one from our old house intending to use it here, but never did - nowhere to vent it to, so it stayed in the garage. Then it turned out to be one of the ones that were apt to burst into flames so that put the lid on it. I have a walk in airing cupboard that is good for drying washing, especially since we were able to have the tank removed and a radiator put in.

I’ve had my vented ecosense TD since 1994, it only has high and low settings and an end of cycle buzzer that I can turn off. 6 levels of dryness between dry and damp. Unless drying heavy cottons I use the low setting, it costs £1.34 an hour to run but drying times vary and it doesn’t run for anything like an hour at a time.
Having washing drying on radiators etc puts an awful lot of moisture into the air, could lead to mould.