Article View: aus.consumers
Article #414Re: Looking for advice on buying a clothes dryer
From: jg
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:08
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:08
20 lines
2199 bytes
2199 bytes
Jonathan Wilson wrote: > I am going to buy a clothes dryer for just myself, can anyone suggest > what I should be looking for? Is it worth buying one that has the > automatic sensor to detect how long the clothes need to be dried for? > Are there any brands or models that have better energy efficiency or are > they all much the same? Not looking to spend a fortune. > Also, I live in a small rented apartment and dont have a lot of room to > put a dryer in (so I need something that doesn't require a lot of room > ideally) They all suck, use a mountain of power, wear out your clothes and bugger the elastic, but if you have to have one see if any have a timer of less than 120 minutes - women especially don't understand the significance of that. No real efficiencies have ever been introduced to the basic electric design. It helps a bit to have an exhaust fan in the room, bit generally people too lazy or stupid to hang clothes on the line or a rack won't take advantage of that. There are gas versions, but expensive to buy.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<VauCl.1432$y61.574@news-server.bigpond.net.au>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.sovam.com!goblin1!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!pit-transit.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mailReferences:
<49d9e727$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: 10a0c5,b894dd17da080ba5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a0c5,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.sovam.com!goblin1!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!pit-transit.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: jg <jg@nospam.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: aus.consumers,wa.general Subject: Re: Looking for advice on buying a clothes dryer References: <49d9e727$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> In-Reply-To: <49d9e727$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 23 Message-ID: <VauCl.1432$y61.574@news-server.bigpond.net.au> Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:08:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 124.182.29.52 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1239052085 124.182.29.52 (Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:08:05 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:08:05 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services