White Knight dryers no more?

[Tim+]

Thought I?d remind myself how much a heat pump based dryer cost from White Knight (given the sterling service given by my old gas one) only to find that although a company website for Crosslee and their White Knight products exist, no dryers seem to be listed, just spares.

Did Crosslee go belly up when I wasn?t looking? I do remember that they listed one a year or two ago so they did make them in the past.

Feel a bit sad about that. Anyhow, any personal recommendations for a class A efficiency heat pump based dryer? I think the old one is feeling its age.

Tim

[Alan J. Wylie]

They ceased production at the Crosslee factory in June last year

[Tim+]

Thanks. Probably stupid to want to stick to the same brand after purchasing a product 30 years ago anyway but that doesn?t stop me having a sense of gratitude for all the years of faithful service (and support) that I?ve had from my machine and Crosslee.

Tim

[Theo]

When I was looking for one last year, they only seemed to do vented dryers. Seemed pretty stone age to me.

Ended up with one of these:

it was about GBP330 at the time, and ours has white not grey buttons).

It... dries things. Takes about 1kWh per load (cottons, whatever fits in

6kg integrated washing machine). Hasn't burnt the house down yet. Not sure there's much more to say.

Oh, the sensor drying is full of lies - it displays a time to finish (usually 2h44 to begin with) but time slows, jumps, goes backwards... I think they hired the people who wrote the Windows file copy dialogue. But I'm not drying to a schedule, so I don't care. It seems to take about as long as the washing machine so it's not a bottleneck.

Theo

[Steve Walker]

Our washing machine does a normal wash in 53 minutes and a fast one in

1. Both would be 3 minutes quicker if the programs detected that the drum had stopped and allowed the door to be opened, instead of keeping the door locked for 3 minutes extra.

Our (vented dryer) typically take 60 minutes. Which is important to us, because with three children, we often need to do two washes and dries in an evening and often don't start as early as we should.

SteveW

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)]

Maybe they were too good, and nobody ever needed a new one? Brian

[Fredxx]

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I've been converted to a condenser drier. No humongous pipes and all the energy goes into heating the room. The machine can be placed anywhere convenient.

[Steve Walker]

Not what you want on a hot, but wet, summer's day though.

Ours sits between the dishwasher and washing machine. They are going to need drains anyway.

SteveW