Washer/Driers do they work - discuss!

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What do you think? I am considering getting one of these to try and get rid of the constant clothes horse in my kitchen.

Didn't like mine and that was prior to having children, think it would be a nightmare with a family. Perhaps it was just the model I had but it took an age to dry the clothes, didn't think much of its washing or drying abilities.

yes!

we have just got one put in by our landlady.
we live in a flat with no garden, no radiators and no drier (til now)....
so had a huge clotheshorse constatnyl full taking up space in our living room

admittedly it isn't as good as a regular drier, but it definitely does the job

I have one. I also have a clothes horse next to my left elbow atm.

I don't like the dryer - I use it occasionally. Not enough room for a washer and a drier in our kitchen, so it's nice to have it, but I don't think the dryer works well enough to make it worthwhile using often. Mine's an Indesit WDE12, I think.

i normally do mine for 30 mins in drier then hang them up... it's so much quicker!

Like others, we've got no room for a separate drier, and it's definitely better than nothing. I do my loads overnight so it doesn't matter that it takes a long time. Towels washed for years in hard London tap water are horrific if not tumbled!

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

no, ime
maybe I have just chosen badly but the ones I have had just warm things up in a very expensive way

Ours is ok but it needs de-linting every 9 months or so. this involves dismantling normally only engineers would do, but I can do stuff me [smug].
without this it would have got much less efective, ours is a hoover.
I think seperate dryers are better and some models can be stacked on top of washers to save space.problem is when this one breaks we'll need to replace the washer too.

ooh carlk can you delint then
[impressed]
[big strong manliness emoticon]

I can do lots of manly things me..
delint, deburr, dismantle, fill wipe/wash bottle in DW's car......
Rubbish, I can put rubbish out....

oh and pee on the seat

can you change a tyre carlk
mend a puncture
chop wood

all of them and more...

you're sqiffy arent you

Thanks for all these. I read scummymummy's link and think I might be better to stick with the old clothes horse. Damn!

I used to have one and could put washing on before going to work and set it to dry and bingo, all done when I got home.

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In my experience they make clothes hot and steamy but don't really dry them. But, if you whip them out when hot & steamy (oo er!) and hang them on the clothes line they dry very quickly. Better than nothing IMO. Although ours also broke a lot.

I have a hotpoint one and it works fine. I'd rather have separates so I could dry at the same time as the next wash is on and have larger loads, but that's in an ideal world.