Going Green isn’t easy

[Buckman]

Crikey, we hardly ever use our (condensing) tumble drier other than to "fluff" the towels up (20 minutes on cold)
Washing gets put out onto the "whirly-gig" in the garden to dry. If its raining the washing doesnt get done. On the odd occasion, if the weather turns inclement it gets strung up under the gazebo. There are just the two of us in the house.

You live in Weymouth in the south of the country so obviously have better weather than us in Midlands and to the north?

 

[otherclive]

Looking at Bosch web site there are only heat pump models . No old fashioned ones? Is this correct?

Yes I had been browsing online sales sites so the vented or condensing models are allowed to be sold after the cut off date if they had been manufactured anbd until stock runs out. Apologies.

 

[Sam Vimes]

I think going green in terms of benefit to the environment is relatively easy. The problem that many of us find is that it has a negative impact on your wallet and the personal benefits are not that apparent, if there are any at all.

In respect of Tumble Dryers, we don't have one. As I've mentioned previously the MVHR does a good job of drying clothes on the airer over night. When we light a fire we'll take the airer and put it in front of it before going to bed.

We've found that the few times we've used a Tumble Dryer in the past that they're not that good on the materials. Towels always seem to come out like sand paper - and all the 'lint' you collect must be wearing the materials prematurely.

Can't beat natural drying. Now if I could convince Mrs V to take the washing to the adjacent burn and slap them over a rock, we could get rid of the washing machine.