Heatpump
I'm looking to buy a new dryer washing machine and there are some dryer/washers with heatpump out there. These are quite expensive so I'm curious if it's worth the money?
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General advice on heat pump washer-dryers
- The problem
- The poster asked whether a heat pump washer-dryer is worth the extra purchase cost compared with a standard machine.
- Likely cause
- No appliance fault was reported. The accepted reply described the main trade-off as lower electricity use versus much longer drying times, with poorer performance in a cold garage.
- What fixed it
- The accepted advice was to choose based on priorities: consider a heat pump model if running cost is more important, but a standard washer-dryer may be preferable if drying speed matters. It was also noted that the higher purchase price may take a long time to recover through energy savings. No specific repair or technical fix was involved.
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Hi. We’ve had two. But I think we would probably buy a normal one next time. My wife hates them because they take so long to dry. The point of them is that they hardly use any electricity - but with the consequence of taking twice as long.
They can take over 4 hours to dry towels. Having said that, ours is in a cold garage which isn’t ideal as they don’t work effectively in cold area.
I would say if cost is highly important then consider one but if they are a few hundred pounds more expensive to buy it’s going to take years to start saving money although these days it’s a lot quicker to recoup money due to the high cost of electricity.
Ideally, read what Which? have to say about them
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