On 20/03/2020 22:30, Theo wrote:
Tim+ wrote:
Thought Id remind myself how much a heat pump based dryer cost from White
Knight (given the sterling service given by my old gas one) only to find
that although a company website for Crosslee and their White Knight
products exist, no dryers seem to be listed, just spares.

When I was looking for one last year, they only seemed to do vented dryers.
Seemed pretty stone age to me.

Feel a bit sad about that. Anyhow, any personal recommendations for a
class A efficiency heat pump based dryer? I think the old one is feeling
its age.

Ended up with one of these:
https://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/p...p-tumble-dryer
(although it was about GBP330 at the time, and ours has white not grey
buttons).

It... dries things. Takes about 1kWh per load (cottons, whatever fits in
6kg integrated washing machine). Hasn't burnt the house down yet. Not sure
there's much more to say.

Oh, the sensor drying is full of lies - it displays a time to finish
(usually 2h44 to begin with) but time slows, jumps, goes backwards...
I think they hired the people who wrote the Windows file copy dialogue.
But I'm not drying to a schedule, so I don't care. It seems to take about
as long as the washing machine so it's not a bottleneck.

Our washing machine does a normal wash in 53 minutes and a fast one in
24. Both would be 3 minutes quicker if the programs detected that the
drum had stopped and allowed the door to be opened, instead of keeping
the door locked for 3 minutes extra.

Our (vented dryer) typically take 60 minutes. Which is important to us,
because with three children, we often need to do two washes and dries in
an evening and often don't start as early as we should.

SteveW