We need to buy a cheap and reliable dryer. Recommendations please. I have made a short list , but they are all $500 ish
Recommendation for Cheap Vented Wall Mountable Dryer
aec on 06/07/2022 - 20:22
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Cheap to buy.
I need a wall mountable for my apartment, which will become an investment property later this year. I will certainly buy a heat pump for my next primary property.
Just make sure the area you put it in is well ventilated or you’ll have mould issues in the future from tenants that don’t have a care in the world about it
I only need to use the dryer during winter. Which is 3 months.
Need to use it more than a quarter of a year to start to break even
Not if you got solar. But then you might need to dry your clothes or charge your Tesla. Or drive with soggy clothes. Maybe just buy more clothes would be cheaper.
I bought this during a sale for my rental, I've put it in my own place now after they left, works well. I don't dry straight from the washing machine, I usually hang up my stuff as long as I can and then use it if it's still damp feeling after a while. No faults with it.. So far… Was about $290 on sale
https://www.thegoodguys.com.au/solt-45kg-vented-dryer-ggsvde…
I saw that. It is on my list. and it is also relatively light to mount on the wall. Thanks.
Where does OP say they are in a rental? Or they don't have solar.
I am assuming OP lives in a $1m+ house with 10kw of solar and Tesla model S performance with a 100kwh battery. Living in a non water stressed region with 364.5 days of clear skies and sunshine. $250k single income (family combined would be north of $350k, no need for child care subsidy). Probably a business owner and put it all through the company too.
As it's in an apartment and will be an investment property I would not advice doing it as the tenants will not ensure that there is enough ventilation to stop mould growing.
Not cheapest to buy, but it is the cheapest I have seen for a heat pump dryer is the Aldi one for sale on the 16th July.
I saw that. But a heat pump is too heavy to mount on the wall. The laundry room is not big enough for a washing machine and a dryer placed together side by side.
Mount them one on top of the other or build a shelf to sit the heat pump on. It can be built out of 25 or 23mm HMR board for the sides and then a seconds kitchen melamine bench top from a kitchen place like the HMR board. If there is no room for HMR boards on the side then use say 50mm square pine and crew it to the wall (assuming the wall is string enough) and then put the second hand bench top in and screw and glue it from the underside to the 50mm pine.
Cheap to buy or cheap to run?
With power prices as they are, a heat pump dryer is going to cost more up front but pay for itself pretty quickly.