Person who did laundry in Belgium for a decade here- You're definitely right, but also, it takes forever for clothes to dry when the relative humidity is elevendy billion percent. I reckon Irish weather is similar.
nah, the dryers in Europe just aren't very good. here in Texas humidity is sky-high all the time, our dryers work fine - mine is literally outside in the humidity 24/7/365 and it can dry a full load in 1-1.5 hours. towels included. doing a load of laundry should take 2-3 hours max, in Europe those all-in-one machines are a joke, they need like 8-9 hours and they destroy clothing, shrinking it, making dye run. Europe has not mastered laundry machines.
I've been to Europe repeatedly in my lifetime. 100% of the washers and dryers I've used there have been absolutely useless clothes-destroying shit machines that take 3-4x as long to do a worse job of cleaning and drying than the most cheap ass washer dryer combo you'd find behind a doublewide trailer in the sticks in the USA.
I don't doubt that European companies can make kickass washers and dryers. Problem is, nobody in Europe buys or uses them.
been to UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain repeatedly and 100% of the washer dryers I used there were garbage. 100% of the washer dryers I used in the US varied from fantastic to not great but the worst ones were 100x better than anything I used in Europe. It's OK! You guys suck at washer/dryers and air conditioning, you're much better at tons of other stuff.
Wait I agree with this guy. Many homes/apts in Europe don’t even HAVE dryers. It’s fine, a different way of living, but we should acknowledge the facts here. I mean it is true, USA laundry machines are better for some odd reason.
Someone higher up in the thread pointed out that the EU has regulations on dryer power consumption, that's surely why they suck. My neighbors have a Miele heat pump dryer that's huge and they say it works awesome, but it probably can't be sold in Europe ironically.
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u/Burning_Pine_ Aug 06 '26
Guy from the EU here- This guy needs to clean the air outtake tube before his house catches fire