On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:39:50 +0100, Grunff wrote:
I know this has come up many, many times before; I've spent the last
hour or so reading about it, nut I'm still no closer to an answer.
We will soon be purchasing a tumble-dryer. It will be installed in our
utility/leanto. This is a poorly insulated, unheated room. I have easy
access to an outside wall for venting, and to a drain for condensor runoff.
I'm trying to decide which to go for. Main argument for venting is that
it seems to make more sense. Evaporate water, blow steam outside, end of
story. It feels right and sensible.
But, a condensing dryer would chuck out lots of heat into the room. This
is very desireable in this situation, since it would warm up the utility
room. My only concern is performance, they seem to get rather mixed reviews.
So, has anyone experienced both types, of a similar quality? Which one
performed better? By how much?
TIA
I can't comment on condensing dryers because I've never had one, but I
understand that the air vented tends to be somewhat humid, even so.
To answer your positioning question, I can comment on the Miele vented
dryer that we've had for over ten years - you're not surprised that
this is what's in use are you? :-)
Four good things.
We have the washer with the dryer stacked on the top. Because of the
weight of the washer, there is no movement of the stack, even when the
machine spins with a load of towels.
The stacking kit is excellent and has a very solid pull-out shelf,
which is really useful for parking a bowl when loading and unloading
the dryer.
The vent pipe is a tee arrangement at the bottom - i.e. you can vent
directly out of the back by aligning the port with a hole in the wall,
or you can have the vent on either side open instead so that you can
vent sideways (if in a corner).
The washer has similar good pipework arrangements and the result is
that you can put the entire stack right back against the wall so that
it doesn't project in front of a 600mm worktop.
..andy
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