Does anyone have a Hoover wash and dry 350 washer dryer? Help!

[MorrisZapp]

We've just got this machine. Washing is fine but I cannot work out how to get it to dry without a wash cycle. The instructions are so useless! I'm sure it's simple but I can't work it out, all I want is to tumble dry my jeans! Thank you all Hoover owners :)

Bump!

my old hoover W/D couldn't just dry (or if it did I never worked it out!) - had to run a rinse cycle, open door, put stuff in & do it that way

Really?? I mean it has WiFi but you can't dry 😂😭 thanks anyway!

Bump because I need to tumble dry my blimmin jeans

I have a H-Wash&Dry 500 but google tells me the dial is pretty much the same on the 350, but the display is slightly different.

I just turn the dial to either high heat (2 suns) or low heat (1 sun) then choose the time by pressing on the t-shirt-with-sun picture above the display panel, until the display says the time I need. I can't see a clear picture of the 350 display but if you don't have a t-shirt-with-sun button there will be another way to choose different drying settings/lengths.

As an aside, it's absolutely shite at drying. Everything comes out mega creased, to the point the lines are embedded in heavy materials like jeans. And it takes absolutely ages to properly dry things, maybe because it's a wet heat rather than a dry heat? I dunno. My sister has a really basic £150 dryer with no fancy bits, it's basically on or it's off, and it dries a load in about an hour. This Hoover fucker can be on for 3 hours and the clothes still come out damp. Have tried only putting in similar materials, halving the load... nope.

If you manage to get it working and your jeans aren't a damp crumpled mess, please tell me how!!

Ahhhh yes my worst fears are confirmed! I suspected as much. That's exactly what I've tried already but it started filling with water which last time I looked is the opposite of drying 😂

I think I have reasonable grounds to return the machine but it'll be a bitter fight with DP because he chose it.

Thank god it's sunny for the foreseeable!

I have one and can definitely just dry. Is it really filling with water or just sounding like it's filling with water? - start of my drying cycles sound 'wet' but aren't.

I have one and I think it sprays some water on at the start as a safety feature so you aren’t burning already dry stuff? That’s what Google told me when I got it a few years ago anyway! But then it isn’t good enough to dry the existing moisture let alone what it’s adding so it just makes it worse

Right, DP finally cracked it! Yip, the drying process starts with a not negligible spray of water 😂 But Hoover do not want you to know this, so they don't tell you.

The icons with the sun, an iron etc offer very long drying programmes, but if you keep pressing on 'dryer selection' it presents new, unadvertised options by time, the shortest being 30 minutes. So use that.

I haven't had a chance to test it on my jeans yet (I air dry them then tumble to get them soft and tight) but I will report back.

How odd for a manufacturer to make it so fucking complicated to work out how to use it's product!

I’m moving house soon and leaving mine behind and I think I’ll have to leave instructions for the buyer or the poor sods won’t have a clue what to do with it