What is best condenser or vented tumble dryer
A Video to show you the difference between a Vented and a Condenser Tumble Dryer
hi welcome to Ruislip appliances this is
a video to show you the custom of a
difference between condenser tumble
dryers and vented tumble dryers it's a
question we get asked all the time in
the shop so we thought we'd do a little
video for you
condenser tumble dryers have a vessel
inside them somewhere where the water is
collected and when a light comes on at
the front
usually container or empty container we
take this to the sink and you empty it
out a vented tumble dryer doesn't have a
container it usually has a large
flexible elephant trunk type hose here
which if you can come around here
connects onto either the back of the
tumble dryer well there is sometimes the
option to move the spigot to the side so
you can come from the side there are
some tumble dryers that have venting
from both sides this specific Bosch one
is from the rear or as you're facing it
the left-hand side with the condenser
tumble dryer on the Bosch machines
there's a nice feature that you can have
where you can buy an optional plumbing
kit which is this which connects into
the back of the tumble dryer here and
instead of pumping the water up to the
vessel in the top of the machine it will
push it out of this waste pipe so you
can connect it to your plumbing at home
so the differences of how they operate
both of these tumble dryers are sensor
dryers the sensor dryer instead of you
telling it how long to drive for will
have a preset level of dryness and
inside there's a humidity sensor which
monitors the level of moisture inside it
and will stop the machine when it
reaches that preset level of dryness so
if we put these two on this vented dryer
on Cotton's covered extra dry you can
see it's anticipating now to take two
hours and 18 minutes on the condenser
dryer we put it on a cot
is very dry which is the same program
it's going to say that's going to take
an hour and 59 minutes so from that we
can see the condenser dryer is going to
be faster the vented dryer is going to
be slightly longer now confusingly the
condenser dryer average is 504 kilowatt
hours per annum of electricity and is B
energy rated whereas the vented tumble
dryer will average 482 kilowatt hours so
less energy but is in actual fact a C
energy rating so not as technically
efficient as the condenser Bosch now you
have to bear in mind that you can't
compare the energy efficiency between a
vented and a condenser dryer you must
compare the energy efficiency with other
condenser or other vented dryers quality
is the same both these machines come
with the manufacturers two year parts
and labor warranty looking inside there
are some subtle differences the
condenser dryer is featured with a
polished stainless steel drum which will
reduce the amount of static on your
drying to make sure that it's less
ironing whereas the vented dryer has the
galvanized drum which will generate
slightly more static and therefore
you'll be ironing for slightly longer
filters are both nice easy access on the
front here this is a small filter you
just clean the fluff out on the
condenser dryer it's a slightly larger
one which opens up let's double the area
and you clean that through now the
condenser lives down here and it's
basically a metal matrix that the hot
air passes over and when your hot air
passes over that metal matrix it
condenses back into water droplets which
is collected at the back and then on
this machine either pumped up to the
vessel here where you empty or if you
engaged the diverter and fitted the
optional plumbing kit it will push it
out of the waste pipe there
it's important to make sure you do clean
the condenser periodically we'd
recommend every 10 drying cycles give it
a rinse under the sink with nice and hot
water and you'll get some fluff out of
it you will notice if you're not very
good at cleaning the lint filter here
this will overflow and block the
condenser if you don't clean the
condenser and you're not very diligent
at cleaning either machines lint filters
it will make the tumble dryer less
efficient so it's very important to keep
your filters clean in your machine
literally after every wash or every
dryer should say if you clean that lint
filter it will dramatically improve the
efficiency well I hope you've enjoyed
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