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Tumble dryer - any recommendations?

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DreamingOfADifferentMe · 17/09/2015 13:59

We're finally taking the plunge after years of drying stuff over door frames and on radiators and getting a tumble dryer. Realistically, I think we have to have a condenser as the only place we can easily fit it will be the garage.

Has anyone got a recommendation for a make and model that they've found impressive? Having resisted a dryer for so long, I really don't want to make a costly mistake...

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GrizzlebertGrumbledink · 17/09/2015 14:06

We had an amazing Bosch condenser drier, absolutely loved it! It had a light inside the drum for some unknown reason, will try to find a link...

BrianButterfield · 17/09/2015 14:08

There was a thread on this recently and the concensus was that the cheapest ones are great as the ones with sensors in will stop before your clothes are dry enough whereas cheap ones just go for the time you set them for regardless. I have a cheap Indesit and it dries everything very well.

GrizzlebertGrumbledink · 17/09/2015 14:09

It was this one although I'm quite sure we got it in a sale this one

Knockmesideways · 17/09/2015 14:20

We got a Beko - google DCU 6130W - two years ago. Not had any cause for complaint. I think it cost me about £175.

It sits in our garage. I choose it because:

It has a big door that opens wide - great for drying duvets when DS had a bout of sickness over Christmas last year!

Takes 6kg which means it basically takes everything I can tumble dry from a normal wash pretty much

It's got a delicates and a jeans/towels automatic drying mode as well as a timed one if you prefer to dictate how long it goes for - great if you want things a little damp for ironing. The auto dry is great. It senses when the clothes are as dry as the programme you set it to (iron dry/cupboard dry/extra dry) My towels are normally bone dry in 20 minutes. It also has a freshen up mode so you can put in things like shirts that have got a little to crushed and freshen the creases out.

There's an integral light - handy for a dingy garage so you don't miss anything when you're unloading.

It's a condenser but can also be fitted with a drainage hose.

The condenser is in the top left corner so you don't have to scramble on the floor and the filter is in the door. We just get in the habit of emptying both after each dry, though the condenser holds loads of water.

The only downside (not been a problem for us but some people find it annoying) is that it beeps when it's finished....and carries on beeping until you unload it. I think you can cancel the beep before you run the programme if you're going out or don't want to annoy the neighbours! But I've never used it. To be honest, as it's stuck in our garage (which is an integral one) it's handy hearing a distant beep cos it's easy to forget. Otherwise my undies would never see the light of day (so to speak) in the winter!

It also beeps when the condenser and filter need emptying.

Other than that I think it's the best tumble drier we've had (not that we've had loads). It certainly came in handy at Christmas, as I say, when DS got the winter vomiting bug and our house was awash with sheets/duvet covers and two single duvets on Christmas Day! Coped with the lot and his bed was remade by early afternoon.

DreamingOfADifferentMe · 17/09/2015 16:20

Thank you all so much, this is SOOOO helpful! I'll look up both those models and yes, for a darkly lit garage where the light is helpfully at the opposite side to the internal door, a light inside the drum is indeed genius. And, Knockmesideways, the endorsement of coping with a sickness bug is an impressive one!

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