Tumble drier or dishwasher - which would you choose?

[clangers_snout]

I have a spare 600mm space in the new kitchen I'm installing and I'm wondering what people think would be best to install from the point of view of selling the house - dishwasher or tumble drier?

[jim]

dishwasher - it's a kitchen! tumbel driers too noisy & hot for "out in the open" use

HIH

Jim

[Bob Mannix]

If it was just which out the two is more useful, tumble drier. In a kitchen, dishwasher as you can generally find somewhere for a tumble dryer or get a washer dryer.

[Pet - www.GymRatZ.co.uk]

No question about it. Dishwasher.

Everyone hates washing/drying and a dishwasher lets you get rid of everything at once so when "entertaining" it's like a cupboad for dirty crockery.

Garages are for tumbledriers if space is tight. Washing lines are for drying clothes if there is no space for a t/drier. :¬)

[Andrew Gabriel]

Dishwasher. Never yet found the need for a tumble drier.

[Martin Pentreath]

Even ignoring the appalling waste of collective resources of tumble drying, simple self-interest based on rising leccy costs is rapidly making tumble driers look like a bit of a relic, whereas dishwashers still make sense.

Anyway, why not save yourself a few hundred quid and leave an empty hole with plumbing and power so they can make the choice?

[Pet - www.GymRatZ.co.uk]

Good point. the all important sales line... "Plumbing for blah blah blah"

[Andy Hall]

Huh? What collective resources? The user pays for the electricity.

That depends on time and convenience vs. electricity cost

That is probably a good idea.

[meow2222]

a no contest no brainer.

NT PS

[Frank Erskine]

Our local water company (Northumbrian Water) periodically send out a freebie magazine to their consumers about, would you believe, water.

They once had an article about dishwashers being a bit wasteful of water and things, yet in the same edition they had a competition where you could win a dishwasher...

It's a bit like the local evening rag which regularly campaigns for healthy eating (in an area where pies, pasties and sausage rolls seem to be 'de rigeur' amongst the pushchair-pushing types) - they occasionally have 'sponsored' competitions (fsvo) to win a free pasty...

[<me9]

Our tumble drier runs on gas. Much cheaper to run.

[Martin Pentreath]

True, but the rest of us (and our offspring) pay for the consquences of unnecessary CO2 being released. I think tumble drying clothes is something future generations will read about with disbelief.

[stuart noble]

There should be plenty of tumble driers to choose from down the tip when higher electricity costs start to bite.

[Huge]

Offspring are the problem. Why on earth should I care about yours?

[Steve Firth]

Fuck 'em I won't be around to read about their disbelief. And they aren't doing anything to help with the problems we have to face.

And if a few more people could stop having children there wouldn't be a problem.

[clangers_snout]

I did think about leaving the hole all plumbed up but empty, but when you're selling the least little thing can put a buyer off and I think filling the hole makes more sense in that respect. Anyway, a dishwasher seems to be the consensus, so I'll go with that.

[Andy Hall]

That's easily fixed with nuclear generation.

Realistically, there is not going to be a significant reduction in energy consumption in industrial nations or would be industrial nations. People are not going to be willing to play along with this in a meaningful way all the time that there are bogus arguments and green marketing.

So, no I don't think that future generations will read in disbelief about tumble drying. I do think they will wonder why people of our generation titted around with windmills and silly lightbulbs when neither did anything worthwhile and diverted time, attention and resources away from solutions that can comfortably address the requirements of the modern age and not require a return to mediaeval times.

[Frank Erskine]

It seems a strange concept to decide on a purchase of kitchen equipment based on the resale value of your house.

Might it not be better to knock the whole house down and sell the plot of land? That way the potential purchaser would have a totally clean slate upon which to base his offer.

Besides, do people include gadgets when they sell a house? OK, when I bought this one the CH boiler was included, as was a gas fire in the living room :-)

To me, a house is to live in...

[Mark]

I think we're getting back to this situation. However in recent history houses have been the playthings for the rich.

[stuart noble]

What a quaint notion :-)