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Author Topic: Tumble drying using heat pump?  (Read 1781 times)
skyewright
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« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2011, 09:30:50 AM »

Dehumidifier. House is damp enough without letting more water just evaporate.
Here too.
Having used a cheapo Screwfix dehumidifier for several years we just upgraded to a Mitsubishi MJ-E16VX-E1.

With that in the utility room a 12 hour "laundry" cycle + "dry inside" (which dries off the dehumidifier, so that it does not itself grow mold!) uses ~2.5kWh, dries 2 loads of washing (hung on an airer rack like Martin's), provides useful heat, and leaves the rest of the house drier too! On other days we use a different cycle for less time.

Of course we dry outside whenever possible, but with a year round average outdoor RH% of >85% here natural drying outside in winter is almost never practical.
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« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2011, 12:46:35 PM »

http://www.ecowashinglines.co.uk/the-laundry-dome

can also be used for raising plants Smiley
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« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2011, 01:54:13 PM »

http://www.ecowashinglines.co.uk/the-laundry-dome
can also be used for raising plants Smiley
Interesting idea, but here at least as well as being a bit damp it is also often a bit breezy too...

In the not too distant future we hope to have a more robust structure available for raising plants; clothes drying would be a good winter side line for that.  Wink
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« Reply #18 on: January 13, 2011, 02:02:57 PM »

We brought a dehumidifier just before Christmas - Ebac from Argus. Moved to Cornwall in October and found the bungalow a bit damp, well condensation, normal for Cornwall so we have been told!. We Wife dries washing outdoors or in the conservatory - when its raining  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #19 on: May 17, 2011, 02:38:56 PM »

I know this is an old topic, but we have an AEG heat pump dryer. It's now about 10 years old and is used for all the drying apart from wool.

Very well built, I expect to buy a couple more soon.
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« Reply #20 on: May 17, 2011, 10:16:03 PM »

one of the projects on the go at the minute, drying/washing room, so far re-slated roof with addition of velux, changed ceiling from flat to pitch (to give room for clothes airer like martins) on with insulating roof with kingspan, have a temporary heat leak radiator from the log burners (which works great and will be made permanent) have been thinking of humidity from drying and was thinking of one or two heat recovery vents!!! also wondering about other heat sources and something to get the air circulating, any suggestions.
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