To want a tumble dryer in the bedroom?

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We have a utility room with a (pointless) sink which means there’s only room for a washer dryer. It’s rubbish. Eventually I want to redo the whole thing and put a washing machine and tumble dryer in there.

The dryer bit of the washer dryer isn’t working. I’ve had a quote of £90 to come and have a look, that’s without any parts.

I think it would be better to get a tumble dryer now, a heat pump one, for £330, and have it in the bedroom for now. There’s space, and it’s a black one so will blend in with the dark bedroom furniture.

DH has said a flat no. He wants to spend less and fix the W/d. I’ve explained that even fixed it’s still shit, it only dries half a load and takes two hours so a one load of washing and drying takes the whole day. We have a constant backlog.

He also thinks the bedroom is a weird place to have it. I think it’s ideal as I can fold and put away straight from the dryer.

I am the only person in the house who does laundry.

WIBU to just order one? The idea being when the W/d inevitably packs up completely I can replace with a washer and then when funds allow rejig the utility.

I used to have one in my dining room, like you say....at least you can put stuff straight away and have an efficient unit. And your bedroom will smell lovely!

Can you compromise on another room?

There really isn’t anywhere else for it. Unless I hijack his precious music room as a laundry room...

If there's space in the bedroom I'd do it. Maybe get some sort of tablecloth to hide it under

One of my friends was saying she has a tumble dryer in her bedroom. It seems like such a good idea! I love the idea of chucking clothes for the day in there to warm up whilst I'm in the shower every morning

Can you stack your washing machine and a dryer if you take out worktop? Mine are stacked with a pull out shelf in between and it's great. Do us a diagram and we might be able to come up with something.

I wanted to do this, because we're in a flat and I don't want the noise of the dryer when I'm watching TV his majesty said no of course, so now I just go out when it's on and leave him to it.

Spend the £90 on having the sink removed then buy a normal tumble dryer?

Can’t stack it as the boiler is above the washing machine.

Washer is in the cupboard on the right, the other cupboard is pipes.

I think it’s going to cost a fair bit more to take the sink out, plus we’d need a new worktop. I want to completely redo it and have freestanding appliances, eventually.

It'd take five minutes and no money to take that sink out! Is your mains water in that cupboard?

You could stack it if you took the sink out?

We removed the sink,from our utility room as it was used so rarely. We have a stacked washer and dryer now with a small freezer too

Oh really? I didn’t know if it was something I could do myself!

I’d have to replace the worktop though and I don’t know how much that would be.

Can you tell I’m clueless about diy?

The mains water (if that’s where you turn it off?) is under the kitchen sink.

Does it need to look beautiful though? Frankly I'd rip it out myself, pay someone to cap the water off properly then worry about making it look beautiful later.

It's a utility is it not? It needs to be usable!

OK, idea.

Remove sink by self.
Remove pipes by self / pay plumber small amount of money to cap water pipes off under sink.
May need to look at whether cupboard needs to be removed to make space for a dryer - I assume there's a shelf etc. Will it need to be braced?
Measure cupboard, check you can fit something tumble dryer into this space.
That clears room under sink for tumble dryer.
Put board over worktop in interim so it's a useable surface.
Get cost for new worktop to be fitted and plan accordingly.

No need for complex ripping out.

I think perhaps I’ll get the dryer now, stick it in the bedroom and see how it goes. And if I hate it, rejig the utility.

I actually really like the idea of taking clothes straight out upstairs .

The only thing to remember is they generate a LOT of heat so in winter, lovely. Now? You might find your room unbearably warm.

I had my dryer in my bedroom and stuck the venting hose out of the window when in use.
Now it's in the bathroom, same venting method. Plugged in using an extension lead from the landing. All safety precautions taken!

I lived with a friend in a flatshare where the tumble dryer was in her (huge) bedroom. It was one that you vent out of the window. Was never a problem.

I have a newish condenser dryer in my utility room and it does get quite hot in there when the dryer is on, that would be my only concern about having it in the bedroom. Unless a heat pump one contains the heat better?

Put it in your DH’s music room, definitely.

Or put it in the bedroom and put up an airer in the music room for his clothes.

Cross post Merry!

I wouldn't want a dryer in my bedroom tbh, so I am with your DH there! Hot, noisy, big blocky piece of equipment - useful but not decorative.

I have a similar utility to the OP and my dryer is in the kitchen (we already had separate washer/dryer when we moved in) but as I can't stack them like I used to, I am thinking of a washer/dryer next time round. We don't use the dryer a lot though, so it would be fine for us.

In your case, if you don't use the utility sink take it out, put a worktop in and stack - that would be the easiest.

I would just get on with ripping our the sink and cupboards and worktop myself, temp cap off the sink water then get a plumber to make good properly.

Stack the WM and TD using a stacking kit and chuck in a freestanding cheapo storage shelf unit until you get the cash to do a 'proper' job of it.

I don’t want another washer dryer. There’s five of us and I never get through the washing. It would be so much easier to be able to wash and dry at the same time, and a proper dryer will take a full load.

Agree, washer dryers are the devil's work!