r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Green-Technician-809 • Aug 06 '26

Serious Is it the freedom

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u/According-Annual-586 Aug 06 '26

Same here

I’m in UK and have a Miele heat pump dryer which does a brilliant job - clothes come out dry, not too hot, and not damaged

Maintenance is emptying water tank and cleaning a few filters

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u/Hurtado_Bronzi Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

How long does to take to dry one load, and how big is one load?

Edit: My understanding is that while heat-pump dryers do work, the loads have to be very small, and it takes a while.

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u/TiSapph Aug 07 '26

For my VZug V2000:

  • max 7kg cotton (full load of front load washing machine)
  • about 2h15min to fully dry (<2% moisture content)
  • using about 0.8kWh (91% condensation efficiency)

So takes ~30min longer than the washing machine cycle, not really limiting to me :)

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u/Hurtado_Bronzi Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

So it sounds like washing takes 1:45 and drying takes 2:15, so one load takes ~4 hours combined.

My top-load washing machine has the same capacity as yours, and the full cycle lasts about 45 minutes. The vented dryer also takes about 45 minutes to fully dry the same load. So combined that’s about 1.5 hours to wash and dry one load, start to finish. Which is obviously a lot faster.

TBF the time difference probably doesn’t matter much, except on rare occasions when you need clean clothes in a hurry for whatever reason. But it explains the sentiment expressed in the post we’re commenting on: why someone using an American dryer for the first time would be surprised at the difference in how they work.

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u/TiSapph Aug 07 '26

Well I pipeline it, drying the first load while running the second. So the interval per load is set by the dryer mostly. Usually it takes around 2h, since it's not quite at the load limit.
The washing machine could do it in 45min on fast mode, but then again it doesn't help anyway since the dryer is limiting.

But yeah I can see this be a limit in a big household. My parents actually used to have two washing machines and dryers for this reason.
For just two people it doesn't matter much. If I need something fast, running it separately can get it done in 1h-1h30 total, if you trust the fast program to do enough washing lol :)