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We changed our condenser tumble dryer for a Heat Pump model. Reason, the condenser dryer was costing a fortune to run (even on cheaper night rate tariff) also, even though it was located in the garage it was getting noisy - bearings. Because they can't be run in unheated rooms that drop to 12c or less, we relocated the new HP dryer into our kitchen & it costs less than 2/3rds less than the run cost of the condenser dryer. The condense water goes into a manual empty container but there is also an option to plumb it into a drain if required & a bit more regular extra damp fluff removal from the heat exchanger is needed. HP dryers are expensive to buy but will pay for themselves in the long run, especially when we run it off of solar charged batteries for £0.
Ditto - heat pump dryer into manual empty container. Optional plumb-in hasn't yet happened. Machine works well if slower than previous 'global heating attempt' model. Delayed start enables use of cheap tariff (not advisable, apparently, but I choose to accept the miniscule fire risk).
@@Wayfarer-Sailing No electric heaters in a HP dryer so as you say, miniscule fire risk if run "un-attended" - no more than a washing machine or dishwasher. My wife reckons that whilst it takes longer, the milder heat HO dryer produces clothes are fluffier than the old hotter heat condenser dryer which used to produce towels that were like sandpaper!
@@colingoode3702Can’t say I’ve noticed my towels being like sandpaper from a condenser, then again I don’t mind them slightly crispy off the washing line when I can.🙃
We’ve had a heat pump tumble dryer for about 6 years or so now and have had no issues with it. I can see from my energy monitoring that at most it uses about 400w, so practically free if it’s sunny and you have PV. I don’t even bother to hang clothes out anymore if the suns out, they all just go in the dryer! The manufacturer is grundig and it cost about £450 if I remember correctly. The previous tumble dryer got lint on the heating elements and started to smoke so we got rid it it
dont forget to deburr the inside of the pipe and dont put the glue on the inside of the fitting as it gets pushed into the fitting as you insert the pipe and can cause a lip that catches debris, hair etc which could lead to a blockage
You're just a diamond for me. 😎 👍 I've almost the same problem for problem in my 200 year old house. I really appreciate your videos to give me insight as to what needs doing at any one time. Thanks for putting all your videos and hard work on this brilliant channel.
I find your videos very educational and kinda therapeutic the way you go around and explain about things in great depth and gives us confidence in attempting DIY jobs cheers
Definitely get a heat pump dryer! We got one 8 months ago and I've been blown away. I was worried it would take forever to dry, but really doesn't. It seems to take as long as our old dryer, but it uses pennies per cycle.
@@nicolad8822A heat pump works by extracting heat from the outside air, so if they are in a really cold space then they’ll have to work a bit harder, but. not massively so - a lot of Scandinavian houses have heat pumps now so they work fine there. They should have a good airflow to them so if they’re in an enclosed space such as a garage they can be less efficient.
I have a Heat Pump tumble dryer and I have had no issues. It’s plumbed in to get rid of the waste water instead of going into the water tank. Oh and as James from plumberparts says “Solvent Weld is cheap, leaks are expensive” so no need to worry about using excess!
Thanks Charlie, nothing wrong with niche ! I need to do some similar outside work to incorporate the waste from a Belfast sink in a lean to, as all of our kitchen waste pipes are boxed in and hidden away and discharge along with with the bathroom and toilet waste through the block and beam floor leaving no opportunity to connect up.
I replaced my tumble dryer a couple of years ago. Lots of people were moaning in reviews about how long their heat pump dryers were taking. When I read up a bit about them it was suggested they were not advised in cold areas, since ours lives in the garage I just got another condenser.
Great, a Charlie video. How I’ve missed them. I’ll never need to do this but still found it interesting. You make it look so easy. Well done. Can’t wait for next vid.
As requested at the end of video re tumble dryers: we got a top of range heat pump dryer to use in a guest house, in a previously-damp house/kitchen that we remediated. Used the reviews on Which to pick the one with the least humidity escape. It takes 3 hours to dry a 10kg load of sheets and towels and we manually empty the water container which means it can go anywhere, we've got it next to washing machine so can directly load dryer. Any heat that is emitted just helps heat the kitchen. Initial reason for considering over a vented dryer was to avoid making a hole in the 90cm thick stone walls. Initial reason for getting over a condenser was the minimised humidity escape, but the real payback (and the way I could justify the £1200 price) is the electricity cost savings. We run it on average 5 hours per day, so compared to a cheap vented dryer, its paid for itself in less than a year. But, because we have done extensive and highly successful damp remediation work throughout the house - the biggest benefit is that I run it guilt free, safely knowing it isn't undoing all of the hard-grafting damp remediation work that we've done.
Thanks Andy, really appreciate you sharing that. I think I'll get one too as you lot have been unanimous in your support of them, plus no matter how many times I implore my family to only use it at night during the cheap rate we have on Octopus Go they just ignore me and turn it on whenever they want.
Definitely a heat pump dryer. Had one for about 6 months and it's plumbed in. Costs at least half as a condenser to run. It runs longer and less hot however is more gentle to the clothes
Thanks Dan. You've convinced me. I had an engineer round the other day because the guys from AO broke the new oven when delivering it. He put me off saying they weren't reliable after a couple of years.
Great video. I have a miele heat pump tumble dryer and can't recommend it enough. Much cheaper to run, you can put anything in it, without worrying about damage. Personally, I don't think that it takes much longer to dry than the other types of dryer. Absolutely love mine.
Thanks so much. The oven engineer (AO delivery drivers broke the new oven) said they became unreliable with time but I'm inclined to still get one particularly with your wonderful comments 👊
Just swapped up to a candy heat pump tumble drier, it had a removable tank for condensate, but I fitted the drain kit. Warning the hose is very short. Well pleased by the energy efficiency. It’s all menus eg denims, bed linen, daily mixed. No opportunity to chose a duration
Looks like a great install! Good to see you constantly checked the fall. One comment though, looks like the large diameter pvc external pipe has very thin walls. I follow another channel called gate city foundation drainage and they usually use schedule 40 pvc pipe which on a 4 inch pipe has a wall thickness of about 6mm. Usually they glue their fittings together. Also, that corrugated pipe you had was a really bad idea, gate city foundation drainage goes into great detail of why corrugated soakaways are completely useless. You want to drain the water away from your foundation, not keep it around it. A really great channel to watch if you’re interested in drainage!
As an American, will any of this be relevant to me? no, do i still love watching this stuff, YES! (i dont know any places that use that type of slip together piping with o-rings, its all solvent welded PVC for drainage, unless old then its cast iron, and then if really old clay pipe
Thanks so much buddy, really appreciate you watching my vids and humbled you've found them across the pond. Thanks for sharing - interesting to hear what you've got. For us it's old clay or these brown plastic pipes. 👊
@@CharlieDIYte During, for example, a long hot summer it can be very useful to water the garden using recycled grey water rather than using valuable mains drinking water. A tank, placed behind foliage or even under the lawn, with a suitable pump could be used to maintain the garden. I knew one chap who having an empty galvanised water tank in his attic (after a combi boiler was installed) pumped his grey water up into the said tank from his bathroom sink, bath & shower and used the grey water to fill his toilet cistern to flush his loo; he'd always found in daft (with excellent 20:20 vision of course) that we flush the toilet with drinking water...that was his solution. Good luck
Interesting that in the building regulations it uses the word ‘should’ all the time for inspection hatches, dimensions, etc. So its guidance not compulsory. Of course you’d still have to persuade the building control inspector if you didn’t follow the guidance
I have to concur with @colingoode3702. Our builders mis-positioned a stud wall when building our new extension/utility room so we were 20 cms short from being able to put all the white goods under one run of counter and sink. The heat pump tumble dryer works at lower temperatures and uses less power and doesn’t shrink delicates. We use the manual emptying of the water tank and it’s free standing with no ducting and pipe work to the outside needed. We can move it to the integral garage if need be in the future and we also run it on our PV/battery system.👍🏻
Thanks so much Brian. It was the oven engineer who sewed the seeds of doubt when he came to fix our new oven that the AO delivery drivers broke. I was dead set on one but he said they become less effective/ reliable with time but enough of you have waded in singing their virtues for me to go back to the great pump. Really appreciate the comment 👊
My pet peeve in my utility room is the waste pipe for the washing machine behind the washing machine so the washing machine protrudes from under the worktop
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Will I ever need to do this? I hope not.
Will I watch this video and give it a thumbs up and learn? Yes. Yes I will.
Top work, Charlie!
Can't thank you enough mate. Wouldn't be able to do this without your encouragement. It's so valuable 👊
We changed our condenser tumble dryer for a Heat Pump model. Reason, the condenser dryer was costing a fortune to run (even on cheaper night rate tariff) also, even though it was located in the garage it was getting noisy - bearings. Because they can't be run in unheated rooms that drop to 12c or less, we relocated the new HP dryer into our kitchen & it costs less than 2/3rds less than the run cost of the condenser dryer. The condense water goes into a manual empty container but there is also an option to plumb it into a drain if required & a bit more regular extra damp fluff removal from the heat exchanger is needed. HP dryers are expensive to buy but will pay for themselves in the long run, especially when we run it off of solar charged batteries for £0.
Ditto - heat pump dryer into manual empty container. Optional plumb-in hasn't yet happened. Machine works well if slower than previous 'global heating attempt' model. Delayed start enables use of cheap tariff (not advisable, apparently, but I choose to accept the miniscule fire risk).
Heat pump tumble dryers also don't set on fire like condenser tumble dryers do.
@@Wayfarer-Sailing No electric heaters in a HP dryer so as you say, miniscule fire risk if run "un-attended" - no more than a washing machine or dishwasher. My wife reckons that whilst it takes longer, the milder heat HO dryer produces clothes are fluffier than the old hotter heat condenser dryer which used to produce towels that were like sandpaper!
@@colingoode3702Can’t say I’ve noticed my towels being like sandpaper from a condenser, then again I don’t mind them slightly crispy off the washing line when I can.🙃
@@gadgetman36The fire risk is with certain models. Some have elements towards front where there is a risk of contact with fluff.
I do like the idea of the IP65 socket/spur under the sink.
We’ve had a heat pump tumble dryer for about 6 years or so now and have had no issues with it. I can see from my energy monitoring that at most it uses about 400w, so practically free if it’s sunny and you have PV. I don’t even bother to hang clothes out anymore if the suns out, they all just go in the dryer! The manufacturer is grundig and it cost about £450 if I remember correctly. The previous tumble dryer got lint on the heating elements and started to smoke so we got rid it it
Heat pump tumble dryers also don't set on fire like condenser tumble dryers do.
When you solvent welding twist the fitting a bit as it spreads the glue nicely and means you don’t have a dry spot which can cause a leak
That's genius! Thanks Matt.
dont forget to deburr the inside of the pipe and dont put the glue on the inside of the fitting as it gets pushed into the fitting as you insert the pipe and can cause a lip that catches debris, hair etc which could lead to a blockage
You're just a diamond for me. 😎 👍 I've almost the same problem for problem in my 200 year old house. I really appreciate your videos to give me insight as to what needs doing at any one time. Thanks for putting all your videos and hard work on this brilliant channel.
I find your videos very educational and kinda therapeutic the way you go around and explain about things in great depth and gives us confidence in attempting DIY jobs cheers
Thanks so much Darren. Really appreciate that and chuffed you find them therapeutic 👊
Definitely get a heat pump dryer! We got one 8 months ago and I've been blown away. I was worried it would take forever to dry, but really doesn't. It seems to take as long as our old dryer, but it uses pennies per cycle.
Heat pump tumble dryers also don't set on fire like condenser tumble dryers do.
I was told they were not good if you say kept them in a cold garage space.
@@nicolad8822A heat pump works by extracting heat from the outside air, so if they are in a really cold space then they’ll have to work a bit harder, but. not massively so - a lot of Scandinavian houses have heat pumps now so they work fine there. They should have a good airflow to them so if they’re in an enclosed space such as a garage they can be less efficient.
I have a Heat Pump tumble dryer and I have had no issues.
It’s plumbed in to get rid of the waste water instead of going into the water tank.
Oh and as James from plumberparts says “Solvent Weld is cheap, leaks are expensive” so no need to worry about using excess!
Heat pump tumble dryers also don't set on fire like condenser tumble dryers do.
Also a +1 for the heat pump dryer.
Had it 4 years. No issues. It's not plumbed in. But it's not in its final location. Seems cheap enough to run too.
Yep agreed my Samsung heat pump dryer has a removable drawer tank and works great for the past 4 years
Thanks Charlie, nothing wrong with niche ! I need to do some similar outside work to incorporate the waste from a Belfast sink in a lean to, as all of our kitchen waste pipes are boxed in and hidden away and discharge along with with the bathroom and toilet waste through the block and beam floor leaving no opportunity to connect up.
Glad to hear it Andy 👌👊
I replaced my tumble dryer a couple of years ago. Lots of people were moaning in reviews about how long their heat pump dryers were taking. When I read up a bit about them it was suggested they were not advised in cold areas, since ours lives in the garage I just got another condenser.
Great, a Charlie video. How I’ve missed them. I’ll never need to do this but still found it interesting. You make it look so easy. Well done. Can’t wait for next vid.
Mega work as always. Would love you to install a French drain system or similar! Quite a lot of conflicting information on the installation of these.
As requested at the end of video re tumble dryers: we got a top of range heat pump dryer to use in a guest house, in a previously-damp house/kitchen that we remediated. Used the reviews on Which to pick the one with the least humidity escape. It takes 3 hours to dry a 10kg load of sheets and towels and we manually empty the water container which means it can go anywhere, we've got it next to washing machine so can directly load dryer. Any heat that is emitted just helps heat the kitchen.
Initial reason for considering over a vented dryer was to avoid making a hole in the 90cm thick stone walls. Initial reason for getting over a condenser was the minimised humidity escape, but the real payback (and the way I could justify the £1200 price) is the electricity cost savings. We run it on average 5 hours per day, so compared to a cheap vented dryer, its paid for itself in less than a year.
But, because we have done extensive and highly successful damp remediation work throughout the house - the biggest benefit is that I run it guilt free, safely knowing it isn't undoing all of the hard-grafting damp remediation work that we've done.
Thanks Andy, really appreciate you sharing that. I think I'll get one too as you lot have been unanimous in your support of them, plus no matter how many times I implore my family to only use it at night during the cheap rate we have on Octopus Go they just ignore me and turn it on whenever they want.
@@CharlieDIYte 😆
Definitely a heat pump dryer. Had one for about 6 months and it's plumbed in. Costs at least half as a condenser to run. It runs longer and less hot however is more gentle to the clothes
Thanks Dan. You've convinced me. I had an engineer round the other day because the guys from AO broke the new oven when delivering it. He put me off saying they weren't reliable after a couple of years.
Great video. I have a miele heat pump tumble dryer and can't recommend it enough. Much cheaper to run, you can put anything in it, without worrying about damage. Personally, I don't think that it takes much longer to dry than the other types of dryer. Absolutely love mine.
Thanks so much. The oven engineer (AO delivery drivers broke the new oven) said they became unreliable with time but I'm inclined to still get one particularly with your wonderful comments 👊
Great video Charlie. You're brave doing all that. We'll done
Thanks mate 👊
Great watch and the sneak peak bits of garden in the background look fabulous. Top work all round!
Just swapped up to a candy heat pump tumble drier, it had a removable tank for condensate, but I fitted the drain kit. Warning the hose is very short. Well pleased by the energy efficiency. It’s all menus eg denims, bed linen, daily mixed. No opportunity to chose a duration
Thanks Andrew. Yes I think I'll go with the heat pump and drain kit after all the comments. So much love for them.
Hi Charlie. Great video. Was great to meet and chat with you at Makers Central.
Looks like a great install! Good to see you constantly checked the fall. One comment though, looks like the large diameter pvc external pipe has very thin walls. I follow another channel called gate city foundation drainage and they usually use schedule 40 pvc pipe which on a 4 inch pipe has a wall thickness of about 6mm. Usually they glue their fittings together. Also, that corrugated pipe you had was a really bad idea, gate city foundation drainage goes into great detail of why corrugated soakaways are completely useless. You want to drain the water away from your foundation, not keep it around it. A really great channel to watch if you’re interested in drainage!
Garden lighting, looking forward to that!😊
Excellent. Next vid 👊
Its amazing the content tou produce ....thank you
Your editing regime must be relentless!
Nice video, been waiting for the garden lighting for week 👍 looking forward to it 😂
Great videos charlie thank you so much they are amazing
Thanks Paul, really appreciate that. 👊
Good God man! Get yourself a pair of sunglasses; watching you squint in that sunlight is painful.😎
Good point. 👊
Hi Charlie, did you know the jubilee clip was invented in April 1921 by commander Lumley Robinson of the Royal Navy
Next time you can line mark with flour - it's way cheaper than marker spray and works better, plus it disappears after your done by itself.
I found this really interesting.
Still got the golf 🤙🏿
As an American, will any of this be relevant to me? no, do i still love watching this stuff, YES! (i dont know any places that use that type of slip together piping with o-rings, its all solvent welded PVC for drainage, unless old then its cast iron, and then if really old clay pipe
Thanks so much buddy, really appreciate you watching my vids and humbled you've found them across the pond. Thanks for sharing - interesting to hear what you've got. For us it's old clay or these brown plastic pipes. 👊
Well done
Very good as all ways
👍👍👍. Thank you Charlie
Good info as always
Thanks Joe 👊
Dear Charlie, is there a video on what you did with the leaking gutter at the front of the house (1:57)?
No there isn't unfortunately.. But I had an ugly downpipe that came down the wall and I've rerouted it around the side of the house now.
Thank you. Your videos are great and you're awesome helping us all :) Thanks again
What kind of fall did you have for the new pipes placed?
Great job 👏🏾
Hi Charlie, Had you considered storing your grey water for watering the garden?
It's a good point. I've got a couple of water butts for stuff coming off the roof but dishwasher and sink stuff I'd rather get rid of. Am I wrong?
@@CharlieDIYte During, for example, a long hot summer it can be very useful to water the garden using recycled grey water rather than using valuable mains drinking water.
A tank, placed behind foliage or even under the lawn, with a suitable pump could be used to maintain the garden.
I knew one chap who having an empty galvanised water tank in his attic (after a combi boiler was installed) pumped his grey water up into the said tank from his bathroom sink, bath & shower and used the grey water to fill his toilet cistern to flush his loo; he'd always found in daft (with excellent 20:20 vision of course) that we flush the toilet with drinking water...that was his solution.
Good luck
Interesting that in the building regulations it uses the word ‘should’ all the time for inspection hatches, dimensions, etc. So its guidance not compulsory.
Of course you’d still have to persuade the building control inspector if you didn’t follow the guidance
To my knowledge soil pipes should be layed on pea shingle which seemed to be lacking on yours.
The pea shingle went in after. I wanted to lay the pipes first without it, to get the levels right.
lol strange video I’ve just done aco’s around my house and in front of the garage over the 2 weeks only to see you doing drains too lol
😱
how you know it doesn't leak?
Because I had it open for a few days after connecting it all. 👊
I have to concur with @colingoode3702. Our builders mis-positioned a stud wall when building our new extension/utility room so we were 20 cms short from being able to put all the white goods under one run of counter and sink. The heat pump tumble dryer works at lower temperatures and uses less power and doesn’t shrink delicates. We use the manual emptying of the water tank and it’s free standing with no ducting and pipe work to the outside needed. We can move it to the integral garage if need be in the future and we also run it on our PV/battery system.👍🏻
Thanks so much Brian. It was the oven engineer who sewed the seeds of doubt when he came to fix our new oven that the AO delivery drivers broke. I was dead set on one but he said they become less effective/ reliable with time but enough of you have waded in singing their virtues for me to go back to the great pump. Really appreciate the comment 👊
My pet peeve in my utility room is the waste pipe for the washing machine behind the washing machine so the washing machine protrudes from under the worktop
Love your videos so much. The music in this one was utterly terrible.
Heat pump every time: much cheaper to run and kinder on your clothes
Thanks mate.. Appreciate that 👊
Why on earth would you use a rubber coupler instead of a slip joint? A slip joint is like a straight coupler but without the centre stop ring
Slip coupler? Yes that would have done a similar job. I don't see why the rubber coupler is any worse though
@CharlieDIYte your relying on a pipe clip and I feel the couplers hold the alignment better but you can't avoid rubber when joining vitrous to plastic
@@CharlieDIYte The jubilee clips don't last as long as you hope for!
Avoid condenser tumble dryers because they are the type that set on fire, and are also a lot less efficient. Get a heat pump tumble dryer.
Why can't you put the drainage underground? Why should it be above the floor level?
It's a good point. Basically because you want to be able to access the stub for maintenance, unblocking etc
Excellent
Who checked their Whats App watching this video at 4:46
Thanks for sharing
Good to hear from you. My god you've got superman hearing picking up on that 😉