I don't know about you, but my car will not transport large stuff. I used to have a Renault Kango mobility car not much bigger to the Honda Jazz I drive now, but could easily winch large domestic units in it. The Honda Jazz does have a good seat arrangement for back seats, and my folding e-bike will fit, but since the Kia Sorento went, I don't have a car to carry large stuff in. Wife's Jag is useless for anything large.
So to hire a van would cost as much as the visit. Not even got a trailer I could use, as no towing on any of my cars.
I looked at the driers, and did not want to core drill a hole in the wall, the old vented went out of the window, and it would dry at ½ heat setting in 90 minutes in the main some times would need setting off again, but it was using around 1.5 kWh per load, the washer drier we still have, rarely used, gets clothes far too hot for my liking, and uses water cooling, so heat does not go into the room, but not found a stand alone tumble drier with water cooling, they all seem to use air cooling, the the unit makes the room hot, since the utility room is small, this is not really a good idea, the hotter the air in the room the less efficiently it works. Plus they seem to use more energy to the vented at 1 kW.
So we went for the heat pump type, they do not heat up the room as much, and they use around 650 watts, but take a long time, around 2.5 hours, near the end often it does use a mark/space ratio so not using 650 watts for whole of cycle, but maths shows cost is about the same to run as the vented (set at 1 kW) the advantage is window closed, or no hole in the wall. And the drum is a little larger, so we are drying more clothes, so it is a little cheaper to run, but not by any large margin, it only just tips the balance.
Yes I would get another, suits me to not have it against outside wall, it also has some extra features like sensing when clothes are dry, and having a delay start timer so it can run using off-peak.
Although in the main we use solar to dry the clothes, the panels on the roof move the solar energy into the tumble drier.
The first heat pump drier failed in warranty and I still had the Kia Sorento, it was inspected in the house, but lived too far away from the shop for them to deliver, so had to take the old one back and collect a new one.
Looking at cars and the AC, not sure I would want a repair, as it seems once they leak out the refringent once, they do it again and again, and it is a case of recharging it every year. I don't think I have ever had a fridge or freezer re-charged, by time they fail, its a bit of a mess anyway, and always gone for new.
Not sure how long inverter drives last? The freezer is less noisy at start, so would think it will last longer, but capacitors do fail, and after 10 years would you want a repair, or would it be one thing after another once it fails the first time?
