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Condensor or vented dryer-Whats best?

  • 19-05-2010 8:21pm
    #1
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,858 ✭✭✭✭


    As above,which is better and more reliable,a normal vented dryer or a condensor dryer.

    Or are they both the same with regards reliabiliy and drying performance?
    Thanks.:)


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  • #2
    Billy Bunting
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Billy Bunting


    Reliability, a box standard reverse action vented dryer. A condenser, imo, is good for those people without an outside wall for a vent pipe, other than that they are more complicated and as such more trouble. Performance. i would say the conventional reverse action dryer would have it just so long as the filters and vent pipe are kept clean, the condenser are normally not quite as simple to keep lint free for any length of time as there are far more nicks and crannies for crap to get caught up in.


  • #3
    UrbanSea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,335 ✭✭✭✭UrbanSea


    Ya,if you have already had a vented one I'd go for one. Generally less problems with them than the condensers,plus much cheaper.


  • #4
    exaisle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭exaisle


    greetings wrote: »
    Ya,if you have already had a vented one I'd go for one. Generally less problems with them than the condensers,plus much cheaper.

    Much cheaper? I disagree.....running costs are a factor too.

    Vented dryers are generally more expensive to run. You're basically expelling the air you've heated out the wall of the house. The most efficient dryers use heat exchangers and heat cold incoming air so less energy is used by the heating element.


  • #5
    UrbanSea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,335 ✭✭✭✭UrbanSea


    exaisle wrote: »
    Much cheaper? I disagree.....running costs are a factor too.

    Vented dryers are generally more expensive to run. You're basically expelling the air you've heated out the wall of the house. The most efficient dryers use heat exchangers and heat cold incoming air so less energy is used by the heating element.

    Sorry I meant in the original cost. Many of the condensers are cheaper to run,B ratings are very common now.


  • #6
    exaisle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭exaisle


    Yes...I understood the original cost was what you meant....I was taking a broader view....including running costs also. Usage of tumble dryers can vary hugely and if the OP has a lot of young kids (or a wife and daughter) then its likely that it'll be running quite a lot! ;-)

    Great site here:

    http://www.sust-it.net/

    You can include ESB rates at July 09 to work out running costs of appliances.


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  • #7
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,858 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    Thanks for the advice and link too.:)


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