heat pump tumble dryer

[deanb64]

Can anyone tell me please if they have used a heat pump tumble dryer in a out side garage, been led to believe if it's cold in the garage that the dryer wont work but my mother in law lives up in fife Scotland uses one in a outside garage and she's getting on a bit so no so sure of the info she as given me as I have not seen the dryer so trying to find out a bit more before I buy one of these dryers that they tell me don't cost so much to use. any advice would be welcome thankyou.

I don’t think it matters where you use it. It recycles the heat it creates rather than working like an air source heat pump is my understanding.

I’m not an expert on these things though! I have one but it takes forever to dry anything.

It’s something to do with the way the heat exchanger works there very inefficient hardly get hot
that said they will work with in temp over 10c

I have a Beko dryer which is at the cheaper end and my instruction booklet says it's suitable for operation between 5 and 35c. I think they work at colder temperatures but are not so efficient so perhaps won't save so much money.

I have heard it takes longer to dry if it’s cold too, I was a bit worried because ours is in the utility room which is unheated so gets quite cold some days in winter. I haven’t noticed a difference though and we’re on our 3rd winter with it now.
If you go on the manufacturer’s information on the drier you’re thinking of getting it should have a minimum temperature, a lot of them are 10C but some are 5C (including ours which is a Beko), our utility definitely never gets to 5C and even an outbuilding should be above that most days in the UK!

They will work, they will just take a hell of a lot longer to dry a load of washing and therefore not a saving as such on a condenser drying. They work best in a constant room temperature room that is above 15 degrees.

I wish I’d never bought one and stuck to a condenser.