Tumble Dryer Fires

polygonum · 2016-09-22T22:00:58+00:00

Just reading the downloaded instructions for use for a current model Bosch tumble dryer. Contains this paragraph: Caution! Risk of fire. Laundry may catch fire. If you cancel the programme, you must remove the laundry items and spread them out so that the heat can disperse. My question, if this is serious and not just arse-covering, surely the laundry could catch fire if there is a power cut. That being the case, and the fact many/most power cuts are not predicted (nor predictable), wouldn't we have to run back to the house to spread the laundry out whenever there is a power cut and we are using the dryer? Have no intention of going out with it running, but given the home connect feature, it is obviously what Bosch are expecting people to do.

Sep 22, 2016 21 Replies

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bert 9 years ago

Used to be largest single cause of farm fires - and caused a few deaths too.

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polygonum 9 years ago

I agree it is unlike to be the same mechanism as hay.

Hardly the best ever sources, but perhaps there is more to the idea of spontaneous combustion in a tumble dryer than I had thought. But very much pointing at things like oil left on clothes. The issue of power-cuts seems more important - for if you lose power the machine cannot then follow a safe cool-down process.

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