Where is the electric going?

seasickstevie said:
Surely you don't use a tumble dryer in the summer?
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if we assume it costs 20p to dry a load off washing is it really worth hanging it out taking perhaps 15mins out off your day to do so:D
if you take the cost off a rotary dryer at about £30 thats about 150 uses to pay for its self

i we assume half my 30ish washes a year would use the airer thats 10 years to break even :rolleyes:
yes off course the tumble will wear out quicker but as they last perhaps 8-12 years not to bothered about that bit;);)
 
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A 3kW drier costs about 45p per hour in electricity

Heat pumps much less, but expensive to buy.
 
Not debating the time costs versus running costs etc, I suppose that's generally about how you value your time versus whether you're bothered about 'saving the planet'.
 
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seasickstevie said:
Not debating the time costs versus running costs etc, I suppose that's generally about how you value your time versus whether you're bothered about 'saving the planet'.
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all leds some with built in motion/heat scensors that use 0.5w when on and 6-8w when illuminated
all pendants no inefficient spots ;)
energy costs perhaps 25% up on 20 years ago consumption perhaps half in the same time

dont have a car
recycle everything correctly :rolleyes::rolleyes:
i think i can allow my self the odd indulgence and still have a clear consience (n)
 
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Typical chest freezer power requirement, if I shop every day, no need for freezer, but use more fuel, so I can cycle down to train station pay £3.50 for a train ticket for my bike, then cycle through town for food which will take 2 hours on the train plus hour in town so all together 4 hours, and as to how much coal the train uses extra to carry my weight I don't know, and can't cycle back, as hill too steep, so better to use car once a week and then it only takes 2 hours total and store in freezer.

I have season ticket for train so only pay for bike, if I walk it costs me nothing, but be it bus or train, the more weight they carry the more fuel they must use, and even though only 8 miles it still takes 50 minutes each way. It's great letting the train take the strain when you have loads of time, but we simply don't have that much time, so one has to put a value on time, even if just £2 an hour, you have to allot so price to time, so if it takes 10 minutes longer to use washing line to tumble drier then 14p to use washing line at £2 an hour, most people have a higher value to their time.
 
foxhole said:
Girls accounted for most, they would change clothes several times a day wearing nothing more than a few hours.
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So tell them they had to wear the items again.

If your wife had simply stopped doing their washing they would soon have stopped putting clean clothes in the laundry bin.


Also 4 sets of bedding twice a week.
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I won't speculate what they got up to in bed to soil the sheets that quickly.
 
ban-all-sheds said:
So tell them they had to wear the items again.

If your wife had simply stopped doing their washing they would soon have stopped putting clean clothes in the laundry bin.



I won't speculate what they got up to in bed to soil the sheets that quickly.
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I did not say the bedding needed cleaning, just the wifey likes things clean and tidy.She had calmed down a bit and we have to pay for our electricity now.
 
seasickstevie said:
Surely you don't use a tumble dryer in the summer?
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I got fed up with conventional washing lines snapping regularly, my garden is 50 yards long. I fixed up a stainless steel, plastic covered and tensioned by heavy counter- weight washing line. You just winch the line down to access it, then stand in one spot, to load it up, pushing the line around pulleys. Release the winch and up it goes, way up in the breeze and dries thing in no time.

In wet weather and winter, in the utility room, I set up a series of plastic covered stainless wires the full width of the room up by the ceiling as drying lines. I then added a small fan and a dehumidifier with automatic humidity switching. The set up takes two full loads of washing and left running over night, everything is dry by next morning. Fan circulates the air in the room, dehumidifier takes the moisture out of the air and dumps it in a drain. We do have a drier, but it never gets used. My set up is much cheaper to run, than the drier.
 
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Upper floors would share a loop of line, worked very well if both households agreed to put washing on the line at the same time as each other
 
Harry Bloomfield said:
Fan circulates the air in the room, dehumidifier takes the moisture out of the air and dumps it in a drain.
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So a fairly large heat-pump drier then :whistle:
When we moved we decided to invest in a heat pump model since the old drier was rather noisy and had a bit of a leak. It was OK out in the shed at our old place, but not in the kitchen here. The heat pump model is a lot quieter, and doesn't put out much heat - what it does put out contributes to the heating, which in the kitchen is via a totally inadequate "designer" radiator ;)
 
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