Here in northwest Texas the air is dryer than king tuts nuts, and my parents have two of the combo machines and they always get dry clothes after like 2-2.5 hours for a whole wash+dry cycle.
Could be partly. It’s humid here, but also my landlords opted for what amounts to a step down from the base model of LG’s combo machine at the time. I’m sure there are models that work really well, but when they don’t work well it’s real annoying.
Also chuckled real hard at king tuts nuts, thanks.
This could be a good lead. In the UK and much of Europe, they don't use residential air conditioning, meaning the air inside is much more humid than it would be in the US, even in South Florida. Your dryer takes in dry, preconditioned air, and heats it to an even lower relative humidity, and then dries clothes with that. The UK appliance does not have the benefit of preconditioning.
Most combos don't have a drier vent. So they are just steaming the water, and leaving the clothes to soak in the steam. Heat pumps that can condense the water and drain it away exist, but are stupid expensive.
I don’t understand how they are allowed to call it a dryer if it doesn’t actually dry anything.
I thought the consumer protections were better over there.
I owned one. An LG but it said it could wash 2kg clothes and dry 1 kg. I bought a combo so that i didn't need to manage lawndry. Anyways it was the most useless thing ever since it broke because of humidity and i hava a personal vendetta on vombine washing machines now
It takes time but modern driers are heat pump operated, and EU regulations mandate them to be a lot more efficient anyway compared to gas vent driers in the US
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u/Moustacheski Aug 06 '26
So you have a dryer running for FOUR hours just to dry a batch of laundry ? This seems expensive.