to think tumble dryers are a waste of time - towels and bedding aside?

[principalitygirl]

I recently bought one, hoping it'd be life changing. But turns out that loads of what I wash can't be tumbled...?? Most of my
little ones tops, vests and babygros are 100% and are labelled do not tumble dry?! I've ignored it, dried them on low and now they've shrunk. Jeans shrink too. Feel totally misled!

I can't bear stuff all over the radiators, I don't think mine are clean enough (and the floors definitely aren't). I don't think combined washer-dryers are any use though, the dryer part is like a hotel hairdryer.

I agree with the poster who said you are buying the wrong clothes :) I'd blame the clothes for shrinking rather than the dryer! I do use the low setting for anything that looks delicate, and take it out early.

Do they cost £1.00 per load?

I thought it was 40p

Everything except fleece goes in mine. I'm also guilty of putting stuff in there for 10 minutes "for a warm"

Lakeland say it costs less than 5p / hour to run (isn't that about the same as a slow cooker?).

I usually have mine only half open, against a wall, so it doesn't take up the full space.

I'd hate to be without ours...... the school uniform/DH's shirts and trousers all go in. It's so nice not to have stuff hanging round drying for days

YABU. I have an airer which is used for jumpers, t shirts and some non drier underwear, everything else goes into the TD. When the drier broke a couple of months I ago I refused to do anymore washing until the drier had been replaced, I hate having washing hanging off everything taking 2 days to get dry.

I couple of years ago i would have disagreed OP but then my tumble drier broke and i couldnt afford to replace it. I started using my dehumidifier (originally bought for previous damp house). I got one of those tower airers and put it in my airing cupboard with the dehumidifier. One wash dried over night, everything can be dried by it. Cheaper per load than tumble drier, no washing hanging about the radiators, no moisture in the air. I loved it. And then it died after about two years of 4/5 weekly use and i am gutted. I now have no choice but to have washing hanging around the house and i hate it. Plus the house is definitely colder. The only thing i would say is the tumble drier would be useful for fluffing up towels and finishing off things for 15 minutes to air them through. Im saving up to get tumble drier fixed. Dehumidifier is fucked sadly. My dad says theyre not made for daily use. I tjought that was the point of them!

YABVU we one in a tiny house and in the winter we wouldn't manage we literately would have no were to dry the cloths

We have a drying rack but it takes 24 hours for the cloths to dry and even then still damp and we pretty have no were to put it

I have a teen a baby and a husband who has to have a clean uniform every day YABU

Couldn't be without ours. Lived in a flat for a while without one and the damp was thought to be entirely due to the washing drying inside...

... we got a condenser dryer moving back down here (doesn't need a vent to outside) and gosh. If you look in the water container after a load you can see WHY drying inside is bad for your health. There is just SO much water per load that its just like painting your walls with water if you dry inside.

I had no idea it was a pound a load though. Still better than living in unhygenic mouldy house in our case!

I remember visiting singapore and being told the people living in the flats just had to hang clothes over their bannister/wall outside for 5-10minutes and the clothes would be dry!

In the summer the cloths rack is stood outside and there is no issue but no fun havering a teen and a oh who smell of damp clothing

Yabu I'm afraid! Bedding dried on a rack just isn't the same. Has to be done in the dryer or on the line in summer! I only put delicates on the radiator or shirts that need ironing get put on hangers in the airing cupboard. Everything else in the dryer! I find Gap, Tu and Next stuff is fine. Have lost a few John Lewis babygros so just stopped buying them. George is brilliant - keeps shape and colour really well

After I had a second child my house started going mouldy from the extra laundry drying. It used to take a week for a single load of laundry to dry in winter so I used to have huge overflowing piles of dirty laundry which I couldn't clear until the
summer and hardly ever changed the bedclothes. I love my tumble dryer.

Our dryer has two temperature settings, so towels & bedding go on hot, everything else on cooler.
Don't know what I'd do without mine, didn't have one when we first moved into the flat and had to dry everything on a line, which made it damp and clothes smelt.
All of DD clothes go in the dryer, sleepsuits, vests etc and never shrink.

YANBU. I only use mine for towels and bedding and I could live without it. I tumble dried a load of clothes labeled as being tumble dry-able but they all shrank! That was on low!

I tumble dry everything except expensive woollens. I've never even bothered to check labels really and nothing has shrunk.

GoodnessIsThatTheTime, we have a condensed drier too and I was equally shocked when I saw how much water came out of one load. It collects about a litre or more each time. Our walls used to feel cold and wet in the winter but not anymore.

I think drying my washing compensates for the incredible dryness having the radiators on, causes. We have a lot of wood in our house and it stays in good condition! The walls are certainly not wet.

Also ds1 has eczema so it is not good for his skin to dry out too much.

How can it be the dryer's fault if you put stuff in that says do not tumble dry. Your own fault really, no?

Erm, so you put stuff in the dryer that said do not tumble dry? Not really the dryer's fault is it, no?

YANBU. We had one for a while in a rented house. We haven't had one in years. I can't say at any point I've thought that I need or want a tumble dryer.

I love my tumble dryer. My last one was rubbish and did shrink things/take hours to dry.

I hated the Lakeland heated thingy.

Dear GOD! I couldn't cope without a tumble dryer! There are basically 4 adults in our house, so tonnes of washing and very little drying space.
Its soo fecking windy here that washing blows away and whirly gig lines get destroyed. And, it has rained pretty solidly since November!
pretty much anything will tumble, you just have to be sensible. don't dry everything to a crisp and use lower temperatures for delicate stuff.

I love my spin dryer, never had a tumble dryer

I never check labels, it just goes in.

The only things that don't are jeans and mine and dh's t shirts. All the dses stuff goes in. They only shrink a bit once ime and not much.

I don't think it is as much as £1/load for mine.

It is 3.7kw and a kw/h (unit) = approx 15p on most suppliers. A load takes approx 45 minutes in my new one (was hours in the old one).