A tumble dryer that actually dries clothes? No longer in existence?!

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Please can anyone recommend a dryer that actually dries? I have a vent so a vented one preferably.

I currently have a Zanussi sensor tumble dryer which I wish I had never bought (ZDEB 47299W - don't make the mistake of buying it). It is supposed to sense when the clothes are dry. However, items like tracksuit bottoms which have a thick waistband or pockets with more material than the rest of the item remain damp when the sensor had decided the clothes are dry. Basically any item of clothing which has thicker piece of material is never properly dried. It has no timer option so once the machine has decided the clothes are dry, it refuses to dry any more. The appliance is definitely not faulty, many people have written this in reviews. Items of uniform thickness like towels will be dried properly. So I am left putting stuff on an airer which is constantly full. Well actually 2 airers and a rack. I have a busy family and this is completely ridiculous and wasting my time. I need stuff dried. I have 2 sets of uniform per child and one set of bedding per bed which would be fine if my dryer worked. It has always been fine for us until I got this stupid machine. We have struggled with it for 2 years and decided enough is enough, I need a proper one because it's just ridiculous having to buy more clothes because a dryer doesn't have a timer. I have tried all the ridiculous, useless settings - cooling, jeans, baby, mix, iron dry, cupboard dry, super dry etc and they are all useless once the sensor has decided no more drying.
There is no way to trick this machine into carrying on drying. Plus it dries really slowly.

2 or 3 years ago, my old tumble dryer broke. It was a cheap zanussi where you just chose high or low and set the timer to how long you wanted. It was about £100 and always got the clothes dry until it packed up. I need something like this but all the modern ones have sensors, which would be fine if you could then set a timer to dry the thicker items properly after the sensor decided they were dry when they aren't.

Help!!!

This is the one I'm buying OP! Sensors and heat pumps are rubbish and like PP have said, all you need is one where you put the wet clothes in, set the time and take out lovely dry clothes X mins later!

I too have a very cheap Indesit one (DH went to buy it and my brief was "the cheapest halfway decent one that you can bring straight home from Currys" - yes I had a laundry mountain) and it's fab and everything is bone dry in 80-90 minutes. And agree the filter is super easy to empty.

I use the sensor dry and at first I always had to add 10 minutes to dry thing properly, after a while it was not necessary, my dryer has learning skills? Call the company maybe someone can come and ajust the settings on your dryer?

On a side note, 2h to get things dry??? I have a huge american sized tumble dryer and everything is dry in 40 min. without using the hot setting. Is there a difference in the way dryers work on the UK? Are your's more energy efficient maybe?

I also have a zanussi sensor dryer, the sensor has never really worked correctly. Most annoying is that the sensor says its dry, so it starts cool tumble. then I come downstairs when I hear the finished beep cos I know its a lying bastard, and all the heat has gone, and I have to start over again! I don't want it to break tho so I am not going to wish mine any ills

we have a mutual understanding, I've agreed not to kick it, if it dries the stuff properly the second time I ask it to. This requires me to turn it off, then on again, and trick it into thinking its a new load. Will yours not do this?

Did you get your new tumble dryer in the end OP?

I also have an indesit that is great - got it from John Lewis as it had to come up four flights of stairs.

h made us buy an all singing all dancing one he reckoned would be ace - a condenser.
this and look how bloody much it cost!!
Still doesnt dry to my satisfaction every time

I have a Miele, its a few years old now, but it dries really well. I think there is only the odd occasion when it hasn't dried everything. Its vented one although i just stick the pipe near the door.

Yes they are pricy, but I think long term on electricity usage it works out cheaper if you use it a lot. I can dry a load in 30 mins, the same amount of time the washer takes for a quick wash.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_product_tests/2463346-Mumsnetters-needed-to-try-the-Miele-TMB-640-WP-tumble-dryer-worth-1-049

product test for you OP - sign yourself up, you might get lucky

My sister has my old Miele - I didn't have a problem with the sensor. Now I have some new AEG - it has the same problem. The only way I get really dry stuff is to put it on the denim program, with extra-dry dryness level.

Also make sure you've cleaned all the fluff filters (I have 3!) - really makes a difference to how long it takes to dry stuff in my machine.

I think it's because they're all low-energy these days, so they just huff warm air at it rather than going for the burn.