Heat pump Vs vented dryer

hairyslug

We have a vented dryer at the moment, it decided to crap out as soon as we sold our perfectly good, newer condenser (vented one was a present from someone moving house)

Anyway. Looking for recommendations for a dryer, preferably vented and can someone tell me if the heat pump or vented is better.

OU812

Replaced a condenser with a vented earlier this year (candy 9kg model). Clothes seem to dry faster. Much happier with it

Tails142

hairyslug wrote: »

We have a vented dryer at the moment, it decided to crap out as soon as we sold our perfectly good, newer condenser (vented one was a present from someone moving house)

Anyway. Looking for recommendations for a dryer, preferably vented and can someone tell me if the heat pump or vented is better.

Heat pump are more efficient, I'd expect they're more expensive, we got one for 600 a couple of years ago. You can see by looking they are higher energy rating, e.g. A++, so cheaper to run. Less of a fire risk with heat pump too which is something to consider.

hairyslug

Tails142 wrote: »

Heat pump are more efficient, I'd expect they're more expensive, we got one for 600 a couple of years ago. You can see by looking they are higher energy rating, e.g. A++, so cheaper to run. Less of a fire risk with heat pump too which is something to consider.

Thanks, did you find they dried the clothes just as fast as a regular vented

DublinDilbert

hairyslug wrote: »

Thanks, did you find they dried the clothes just as fast as a regular vented

No they will take a much longer, they operate at a much lower temperature.

We Got a Bosch Heat Pump dryer today, highly impressed, took about 2 hrs for a full load and consumes about 500-600 watts, about half or less than a normal condenser / Vented dryer, It includes a pipe to connect to the waste so you don't have to empty the drawer. :-)

deandean

I have a rare animal which is a gas-fired vented tumble dryer. Very few of them around. It works really well, it has an automatic dryness sensor, it is fast, and cheap to run. And completely reliable 9 years later. Happy days! as long as you have mains gas into your house of course.

DublinDilbert

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We Got a Bosch Heat Pump dryer today, highly impressed, took about 2 hrs for a full load and consumes about 500-600 watts, about half or less than a normal condenser / Vented dryer, It includes a pipe to connect to the waste so you don't have to empty the drawer. :-)

Which model have you got? I have not been overly impressed with new Bosch heat pump dryer.

It's the WTH83000GB, THE BOSCH manuals are crap but I read that the Humidity sensor can be adjusted for those complaining of clothes not completely dry but that could be because they're not using the correct program.