Tumble Dryer On?

I've managed not to turn our heating on yet but find I have to use the tumble dryer to get clothes completely dry. I hang them before to dry as much as possible first then put then in the tumble dryer for 10 minutes.

i use a heat pump tumble dryer to save energy

Ours have been on all morning as the bedding has been changed today and it's drizzly rain here. Fortunately with the £66 rebate from the government each month we have not experienced an hike in our energy costs, so pretty much on par with last year at the moment.

Lucky you, we’ve had the heating on for while, in fact it’s on now. Fortunately we’ve got some credit with our energy company.

yeh we have tried to cut down on the use of it as we heard it is the most expensive of all the appliances to use. never thought we would all be having to be this careful.

We trying not to use it as much, but had to put it on the other day as it had been raining so much & we haven't got the heating on so I can't dry it on the radiators.

I put mine on about once every 10 days to 2 weeks. I don't dry any other way even through the summer but I don't have a lot of clothes and linen to wash as its only me here. Sometimes its not quite fully dry as its a full load so I put it on again but that cycle only takes another 30 minutes rather than the 2 hours or whatever it is for the main drying cycle. I've noticed large towels are the worst for washing and drying often extending both washing and drying time (my washing machine slows down the spin cycle when there is a heavy towel in the load as it causes more of an inbalance in the load weight because it soaks up so much water). So try to avoid doing larger towels very often making use of smaller towels when I can.

To be fair tumble dryers (even the so called energy efficient ones ) are the largest energy guzzlers in a household . I realise some folks have no alternative to doing a daily wash , but if you have flexibility look at the weather forecast ? Even a couple of hours on the line on a cold before finishing drying in the tumbler will be a massive electricity saving . Even better (if you are on Economy 7 ) part dry on the line then chuck in the tumbler , even damp , set to start drying @ 1130 pm or whatever time your cheap rate kicks in .

Now c'mon Pjran, aren't you the one saying you have your heating on all day lol? I still have no heating at present (plumber coming Tuesday), but use tumble dryer twice a week.

I haven't got a tumble dryer, we've never owned one. I have a heated airer that I use to dry clothes in the winter when I can't put them outside. I don't put clothes on the radiator, unless it's in the summer when they aren't being used but that's only if I haven't got room on the clothes line and the airer.

If the heating is on then the clothes dry pretty quickly anyway. I need see the need for a tumble dryer, not for us anyway.

We have some things we will dry out on our landing or on a clothers dryer in the front room, but the tumble dryer gets used when needed a few times each week. Just make sure we dont overload it as it dries things out a lot quicker that way

Had one for five years, used it about 3 times, we use a dehumidifier and I prefer that.

We been trying not to use the tumble dryer but as you say so much rain as late wife had to put it on to get washing dry with 3 kids 2 who have bed wetting problems it's a nightmare trying to keep up with the washing and drying

I've been lucky so far and not needed to use the tumble but have popped the heating on a few times.

I use a heat pump dryer, use 2-3 times a week, costs less than £1 per cycle so cheaper than using heating or dehumidifier which would need to be on longer to fully dry clothes.

I don't own a tumbler dryer and never will. I wash my clothes in the washing machine and take the wet clothing to the launderette 10 minutes by bus and it costs me £2.00 for 18 minutes. (50p for 4 mins)

Always use my dryer, sometimes just to finish drying off items but quite often a full load goes in so far not seen much of an increase in electric bill though

I have never used a tumble dryer and we are a family of six. This time of year you just have to watch what goes in the wash bin and ask does it really need washing. My children can get lazy and instead of hanging it up for another day it is easier to put it in wash.