Tumble-dryers

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What do you have and would you recommend it?

Watching with interest as I always get the urge to buy one once autumn starts.

Bumpage!

I recommend getting the cheapest, most basic one. All the complaints I ever hear are from people with fancy, sensor-drive ones that don't get clothes dry! I have the bottom Indesit model - I put stuff in, choose a time, and when I take it out, it's dry.

I have a Logik condenser dryer and it does have a sensor but it was cheap as chips and it does dry my clothes very well. So I echo get the cheapest one.

We've got a Beko condensing tumble dryer. Takes a big load and is very quick.

Hoover condenser dryer - about £200?

Has a sensor and is great at drying clothes.

I recommend my AEG all singing, dancing, sensor vented one. We've had it 12+ years, the only things you can't put in it are silk, wool and football socks, everything is perfectly dry every time, no shrinkage and its never broken down.

Yes!

My policy when buying things like this is to look at the cheapest and decide if it will do the job. Yes or No. If it won’t, I look at the next expensive until I find what works for me.

You really don’t need bells and whistles with a tumble dryer.

But if you have money to spend, I stayed with a friend that had Miele appliances and they were amazing! But more money than I would ever spend.

We’ve got This Beko vented one.

It does exactly what it’s supposed to, takes about 40-45 mins to dry a full load. If it broke I’d replace it with the same one

Meet - the fact your AEG is 12 years old is probably why it's so good! The drive to make things energy-efficient over the last few years has also made them less convenient for us, in my opinion. For example, washing machine and dishwasher cycles taking hours and hours, and tumble driers not actually drying stuff.

Indesit condenser, bung it in, turn the dial, it's done. Basic but efficient. Purchased via John Lewis so got a two year guarantee rather than the standard one year.

Just purchased very cheap, super basic whit knight vented one. It was avtually quite had to find one without a million programmes, sensors,smart technology etc! I wanted one you just bung clothes in and switched on.
Avoid hotpoint, indeset and Hoover all of which we've had before and have been rubbish.. Have had zanussi before which lasted ages.
Time will tell how long the white knight will last, but at least it was cheap!

I have White Knight - about 5 years old now and still going!
Can't live without it.

it's a condenser so just a water tray to empty. Went through two 'brand names' in no time and they were crap.

Would thoroughly recommend it :)

I have just bought a tinie winie iddie diddie Indesit vented tumble dryer machinie via John Lewis. Two thirds the size of a normal one, it's only 45 cms wide and can take a load up to 4 kg. It's perfect for me as I live alone (lots of dog blankets though). I prefer to line dry but this will stop me having damp pants over the winter. I tried a dryer/airer but it was meh.

I've got a John Lewis heat pump one. Cheaper and longer warranty than the aeg equivalent. It does the job, but it's losing efficiency over time as the condenser can't be completely cleaned.

We are hoping to upgrade ours soon, currently have one we were given free by a family member when we moved house. It's fine, but I hate that it has the exhaust pipe to go out of the window or attach to a box full of water. We will be looking for the cheapest possible condenser dryer, we don't need fancy, I just want to not steam the house up every time we turn it on.

Just got a Beko condenser with sensor drying as recommended on here. Very impressed so far and was only around £200

Very cheap Beko condenser one here too. Bought over two years ago for just over £200 and takes a real battering and it's fine. I find the clothes that can be dried with the two dots on the label dry exceptionally well on the hotter cupboard dry setting. The synthetic cooler dry setting takes the clothes with one dot on the label and usually needs two goes at getting it dry. I'm happy with it but I'll definitely get a heat pump one next.

I also have a Beko condenser one and it’s great, dries a large load in around an hour.

I have a 9kg beko condenser one about £239. It's great. My last beko one lasted 9 years and it broke before the summer so I have only just replaced it as I didn't need it over the heatwave. It does big loads and I love it.