Tumble Dryers


You can smell people a mile off who dry their clothes on a clothes horse or radiator smell foisty as fuck and the clothes are stiff as a board and it’s terrible for mould and damp
 

The states with the most clothesline bans include:

  • Hawaii
  • Nevada
  • Arizona
  • Florida
Altogether, about 20 states have some restrictions on clotheslines.
That is absolutely mental.
 
I don’t understand how people think dryers are expensive. Mine costs about 45p per load. It’s vented. Apparently the heat pump ones are even cheaper but take hours. I don’t have the time to wait that long - on some days I can do 5-7 loads of washing.

And before people say hanging clothes up is free, it’s only free if you don’t put a value on your own time.

45p a load sounds cheap, isn't it about that per kWh now? A vented dryer usually uses a lot more than 1khw per cycle.
 
I don’t understand how people think dryers are expensive. Mine costs about 45p per load. It’s vented. Apparently the heat pump ones are even cheaper but take hours. I don’t have the time to wait that long - on some days I can do 5-7 loads of washing.

And before people say hanging clothes up is free, it’s only free if you don’t put a value on your own time.
The wife and I both work. We’ve too young children. We couldn’t cope without the dryer. The youngest is in reception and is constantly coming home covered in food and paint from the day.
 
Twice a day going up and down stairs to hang up washing also adds up. As I said, it depends how much value you put on your own time.
I’ve often stated in our household that the automatic washing machine did more for women’s rights than the suffragettes did.

Please don’t assume that I’m being sexist … the time factor has liberated people from hours of domestic work.
 
45p a load sounds cheap, isn't it about that per kWh now? A vented dryer usually uses a lot more than 1khw per cycle.
Overnight it’s 11pkwh.
I’ve often stated in our household that the automatic washing machine did more for women’s rights than the suffragettes did.

Please don’t assume that I’m being sexist … the time factor has liberated people from hours of domestic work.
No offence taken. Iirc Tim Harford does an episode in his podcast series “50 Things that changed the modern economy” about Ready Meals changing the workforce in the same way.
 
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Actually thinking about it. Of the seven houses I can see in to their back gardens only one household dry their washing on the line.
 
£200 to fix a standard one, when a new heat pump would be about £500

Pfff, not sure I'd pick the same option tbh. How much is the current one even worth? What are they fixing that has a £200 call out fee anyway? If its bushes, its an hour's labour??
I forgot to say it was £200, plus a years insurance- if the eng can’t repair it when he comes, we’ll get a new replacement for nowt, and that goes for the booked in repair as well. Saves me the fanny on of buying bearings, potentially getting the wrong ones (there’s loads of choice) waiting for them to come (delivery time was 2 weeks what the fuuuck, I can get same day from Amazon), then facking around doing the job, only to find it hasn’t fixed it and back to square one looking for a compatible dryer to fit the space under my counter top.
No, £200 sounds like money well spent to me
 
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How does that work, do you get up in the middle of the night to do your washing?
Delay function on the dryer.
Wouldn't they do a bit smelly if left in there for hours waiting to be dried, also she does 6 loads a day.
I sometimes do six loads a day. Not every day. I try and put a load on every night but sometimes I have three sets of bedding, two sets of towels and a muddy school day.
 

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