To wonder if a washer/dryer works properly?

[Charliegirl21]

Years ago DH and I had a washer dryer. I am talking 15 years ago, it was pants. It washed ok but drying was rubbish.
Fast forward to now and we are having a new kitchen but very tight on space. Kitchen man has advised getting a washer dryer so not trying to fit in two appliances but I don't want to get one if the tumble drying doesn't work. Kitchen man says they gave come a long way and some of them especially Bosch are really good.
AIBU? Online reviews are really mixed.
Thanks.

Apparantly some had faulty sensors/circuit boards....

Ouryve, I know but the OP is having a new kitchen. The designer could perhaps work on this method.

I've given up using ours for drying - took hours and even then wasn't dry. Our kitchen is also tiny so I have our dryer in the garden in a waterproof keter cabinet - a bit of a faff when it's raining but no noise, no dust and no worries about condenser v vented tumble dryer.

For the price of the miele (which does work btw) you May aswell buy a shed and put a tumble dryer in it

I have a washing machine in the kitchen and a tumble drier in the bathroom upstairs. It is not as unconvenient as I thought when we moved in.

We had one in a previous house and it was fine as long as we didn't over load it; ie if we wanted a load to wash and then follow straight on automatically with a drying cycle, we'd bung on a half load in the morning, go off to work and then have it all dry by the time we got home. If we wanted to fill the machine we'd have to do a wash and then take stuff out for drying so we tended to do full loads at the weekend. But as a way of getting day to day stuff washed and dried without hassle while we were at work- no problem. I think it all comes down to your needs. Two children later, I'm glad of separate washer and drier simply because of the amount of washing we get through

Wow thanks so much for the replies! I really appreciate it!

Seems it is a bit of a minefield, but having kept a tally the vote seems to swing against washer dryers......

Stacking separate appliances is an option (thanks whoever said this) kitchen man was not keen as it will take up one corner of the kitchen and he said it wouldn't look nice, will reduce work top space and also said putting a cupboard around it (so it just looks like a cupboard) won't work as it needs air around it (?!)

I want the kitchen to look nice but above all I want it to be practical. We could put the dryer in the garage but I don't really want to, I know who will be traipsing out there in all weathers - me - and we had a dryer in there before which died quite quickly which I always wondered whether it was because of the cold.

I am going to have to tell kitchen man that washer dryers are a no go I think, and ask him to start again!

Thanks again for all the replies.

If you are looking into stacking a dryer on top of a washing machine, you'd need to check whether there is some sort of universal joining kit (to stop the dryer from coming off the wm) or whether you need to buy from the same manufacturer and use their kit.

As for your kitchen designer, don't let him dictate what you have - it's a good challenge for him to come up with something workable.