To not have known this about tumble dryers? (Fuel bill related)

[HinchcliffeandMurgatroyd]

Not terribly exciting subject , sorry. I’m quite excited about possibly saving £££s though.

I’ve just worked out that my (fairly new) condenser tumble dryer costs about £1.25 a cycle to run, despite the fact I’m on a less-bad fixed rate.

A good heat pump dryer would apparently cost ~50p per cycle.

So £500 now for a better machine would pay for itself in 10-24 months. Tempted.

I knew there was a difference but thought it was a small difference. It took me 15 minutes tracking down the performance data and doing the maths to come up with those numbers.

I use mine a lot due to dogs, dodgy spine etc. So that’s potentially a massive saving.

Did everyone else know the difference between condenser and heat pump dryers was so dramatic?

YANBU = I had no idea.
YABU = Doh, it’s common knowledge.

I think for me who is self employed it isn’t cost effective to wash up by hand or hang laundry on a washing line or iron stuff.

I can be out of the house from 7am- 2am some days. Do I really want to come in at 2am and have to start washing up
Or start hanging washing our in the dark.

I can unload the washing machine and stick it all in the dryer, turn the dial and push a button and in the morning it gets folded and put away. Don’t even need to iron,

The time it would take to hang everything on a washing line, then I would need to iron it and having to start ash everything. I would lose money.

FWIW dishwashers use much less water than washing up.

I didn't know this. But I don't have a tumble drier as think of them as generally expensive. Worth knowing though!

I have a Beko one, it’s only because of this thread that I’ve found out that it’s a heat pump one, I’d no idea. It never takes the full time it says it’s going to when I put it on at first. It’s 8kg and A+, I think it’s brilliant. Have had it about 9 years and it’s still going strong.
I do have the line outside too and a clothes horse for inside, it would be rare occasions I’d take a full load out of the washing machine and put it straight into the dryer. But I wouldn’t be without it, it’s great for softening up stuff that has dried on the line or clothes horse.

Underfloor heating can be a very efficient way to heat a house if done properly, so not sure your scorn for it.
It usually runs at a lower temperature than conventional heating and if set up correctly can use the buildings thermal mass to heat the space reducing the amount you need to input to get a comfortable temperature.
It's the way heating is going especially in new build houses with heat pumps, it's not a decadent luxury, more a economical advancement.
Of course some people don't fit it well and use the wrong products so they end up costing lots of money but that's bad advice rather than underfloor heating as a terrible wasteful thing.

I looked up the stats on ours - used just shy of 2kwh per cycle for a full load (9kg) on the cupboard dry setting. That takes about 3 hours max, sometimes less.

It works out cheaper than using our heated airer.