Heatpump dryer install

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  John Kimble on 22/06/2019 - 20:42

  Where do you think the water from the clothes goes? Usually into reservoir you have to empty regularly, or down a drain. Your choice.

  Just google "how does a heat pump dryer work"

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  thatonethere on 22/06/2019 - 20:42

  +2

  The main advantage of the heat pump dryer is that you capture the water as water. Rather than filling the laundry with steam.

  Two options:

  1. The dryer fills a cartridge with water from the clothes which you manually empty ever 1 or 2 drys. Can put it on plants etc.
  2. You connect it to the drain and it goes away that way.

  Bit like connecting a dish washer but no incoming water connection

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    ledzep on 22/06/2019 - 20:44

    Thank you that's very helpful

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  Sunny84 on 22/06/2019 - 20:43

  hose to our main line to drain the water = a hose to drain the water from the wet clothes you will be loading… all that water and moisture needs somewhere to go

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  ledzep on 22/06/2019 - 20:43

  Yeah I googled it. Just wasn't sure if it needed to be connected to a drain or not? It says I can just empty the area where water is stored

  Also does anyone know of any heat pump dryers that rotate both ways when drying. Can't find any info on this

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  Third_Gear on 22/06/2019 - 21:22

  Heat pump dryers. Hate them!! They take two hours to do what our normal dryer does in 45 mins. Had one. It failed and I got a full refund. Used the dough to buy a normal dryer. That was two years ago so maybe they are better now.

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    BensonP on 22/06/2019 - 21:28

    +1

    Definitely take a bit longer, my Samsung can take up to 2 hours or more for a load, but monitors the dampness of the air to shorten the load time as low as 60 minutes.

    The 45 mins you're used to will use alot more electricity and create alot more steam. You need to weigh up the pros and cons.

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      Third_Gear on 22/06/2019 - 21:40

      Solar power and off peak rates so the extra spend makes no difference to me. When there are five loads of laundry to do you don’t want to spread it over a week. No condensation either as I cut a hole through the wall and installed the vent properly so it all goes outside.

      We had a Hoover 7KG heat pump. Never again. Now we have a Bosch sensor one and the clothes come out perfect.

      OP: ask your wife how quickly she would prefer to have the clothes dried and do take that into consideration. I was relived when ours died as I was constantly hearing noise about how long stuff was taking to dry.

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  p1 ama on 22/06/2019 - 23:30

  I didn't think Dryers used water at all?

  They don't, but the water that's extracted from the clothes have to go somewhere. The drain seems to be the most logical place for it to go.

  Either way, I think you should review the different types of dryers before laying down the cash to purchase one. Heat pump dryers are the most expensive, but they're not necessarily the best - they definitely are more efficient, but they also take longer to dry your clothes and they are also much more complex. There are many more things to go wrong and problems to have.

  Also, with the amount of laundry an average family goes through, I really doubt that you'd be able to make your money back on a heat pump dryer. It'd only really make sense if you did a lot of laundry or ran a dry cleaning shop.

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  FoxJump on 23/06/2019 - 08:39

  I love my fisher Paykel heat pump dryer

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  [Deactivated] on 24/06/2019 - 08:53

  I don't think they do even out the cost. Let's just say the difference is $700 more for a heat pump, how much do you think you would have to use it to save the $700? If you only intend to use it when it's raining and you can't hang clothes out then save your money and get a regular dryer. We installed ours in the garage so we don't get lint and steam in the house.