Tumble dryer - which one to get?

[Tequilamockinbird]

I'm looking for a tumble dryer just to use in winter as I always line dry in summer.

I don't want vented but can't decide between condenser or heat pump. It'll be freestanding in my kitchen during winter and I'll store it in the garage over summer, so one that looks appealing (?!) too would be great.

Any recommendations? I'm reading that heat pump dryers take ages to dry stuff? I mainly want it for towels and bedding.

I have a heat pump, it does take a while but doesn’t really bother me. I bought as cheaper to run and do a lot of laundry. My top tip with whatever you get would be to it plumbed in so youre not emptying the water from it. Previously had a condenser, still seemed to take a while and also made the area around it hot and a bit damp, although was in a garage.

Why not just get a vented one and keep it in the garage*? Easy to put a vent in the wall if you don't have a window to vent it out of.

Moving it in and out of the kitchen seems bonkers, and it would be pretty ugly just sitting there on its own.

Plus vented have much less to go wrong and (I think) are cheaper.

*unless your garage is a huge walk down a garden path to get to, but even then, it would have to be a LONG way from the house to be a real inconvenience. It's not like a washing machine where you need to get things out the minute they finish.

Heat pumps take forever and as tumble dryers are noisy that might be a bit of a nuisance.

We have had Miele vented dryers for about 20 years and they are great. However recently we bought a condenser one (also Miele) for a flat that doesn’t have a convenient outside wall and I’ve been very impressed with that too. It’s just as quick and could probably do 4/5 large loads before it needs emptying. However I am a worrier so have never left it that long!

Condenser all the way. All you need is the space and a plug socket. I've got a Zanussi one that I've had for well over 10 years now and still going strong. I have mine in a part of the house with no radiator and when it's on it keeps the area nice and toasty.

We bought a Miele condenser a few months ago, very happy with it so far. It does generate a lot of heat along the floor and I empty the water and fluff each use

My Beko B rated condenser sensor takes under an hour to dry bedding or towels. It does depend on your washing machine spin speed though, mine is a 1400. Cost £260 relatively recently.

I thii is no the condensors do generate more outside heat, went to a friends and the utility room was really warm with it in, could feel it chubb ccv king out heat. That might be useful in some circumstances but depends if you want to pay to heat the room or dry clothes! Heat pump is first one I’ve had that doesn’t chuck out heat, but is definitely cheaper to run than vented and condenser.

Hi just bumping this thread as it's recent and I'm researching tumble dryers.
I also want a condenser dryer, Beko has come up as a good buy.
Has anyone else got any recommendations, budget £300 max really.
I've never owned one before but my old heating system is being replaced and I'll be losing my beloved 'raging hot airing cupboard/boiler hot water tank contraption that dries everything'
for a neat combi boiler.

We just got a Candy GVS C8DG 80 (snappy title) - it is quiet and does the job a lot better than the expensive all singing and dancing one we had before. The only gripe is that it is a B rating.

Lol, hi thanks for the recommendation, what's better about this one than your old one?
Also have just googled but can't find a supplier, but could be being thick.

@thesunwillout Argos. The old one took all day to dry a single bra. This one rattles through in just over an hour for 8KG. Also has a natty synthetics setting that hasn't managed to shrink the marino socks that were put in yesterday. Cotton comes out properly dry rather than "easy iron" sopping wet. The other one was a really shit dryer.

this one

I lied... not the vented one it is the condenser one www.argos.co.uk/product/8920395?clickSR=slp:term:tumble%20dryers:4:9:1here

Do you need a tumble drier at all? That set up sounds a pain. We have a tumble drier but v rarely use it. We use a heated airer which I find much better.

Thankyou @Unescorted, you've made me laugh today.
The heating prob I didn't mention (hence need for new boiler) has had me running up and down the stairs switching it back on every half hour.
Hence late reply to thread.

I'm currently rearranging sheets around the place and moving socks and pants around like I'm cooking bloody naan bread.

We have a beko one - bought from AO. It does heat up the utility room so I have a drying rack for clothes that can't go in the TD set up next to it, and a dehumidifier, to dry those in the residual heat.