Beko Heat Pump DPU 8360W - Tangling Bedding into a ball

[richardc1983]

Ive had the dryer now nearly a year. Warranty nearly up but a question for you. When your drying bedding consisting of 4 pillow cases, fitted sheet and duvet cover I find this dryer tangles them all up into a ball... That's also with me ensuring that the buttons to the duvet are fastened so things don't go inside, they still roll into a big solid ball.

I expect the issue is because its only got 2 drum paddles or the fact the reverse tumble only lasts literally 5 seconds before going forward again.

Has anyone else had this issue with any other dryer and how do you get around it? Only way I can see is to dry the sheet/duvet cover separately and then put the pillow cases in with a normal load of clothes washing?

 

[aquarius1984]

This always happens to me when you only dry JUST bedding in one load regardless of whatever reversing/uni directional dryer i may be using.

Remember that your Hoover takes 4kg and the Beko 8kg so really you ought to be putting 2 loads worth into the Beko.

Always mix a duvet cover with lots of smaller items and it shouldnt happen.
So maybe save wash day until you can get 2 loads washed and into the dryer for the same cycle, should solve the issue completely.

Shirts, t shirts and other similar fabric mixed with bedding should be good to go.

 

[gorenje]

It always happens to me also in my Bosch which does not reverse at all. I go crazy!
It happens also if I do a mixed load. It's even worst because the small pieces ends up inside the "ball" and they get even more wrinkled.

So I ended up line drying for a period of time and than when the duvet or sheets are still damp but not completely wet I put them in the dryer.
When damp there is less "friction" on the fabric and everything tumbles more freely.

 

[lavamat_jon]

We have the standard condenser version, and have never had issues with bedding rolling into a ball the odd time that I dry bedding in the dryer. However i tend to dry most things either on the horse or on the line, weather permitting - so wouldn't be able to report any ongoing trend.

Jon

 

[nrones]

This (video) should help

The only tumble dryers I didn't hear do that are Vented Hotpoint/Indesit, all Mieles and all Candy/Hoover, probably because they all reverse for a minute or more

...I've tried this as my Whirlpool AWZ 3303 has the same balling up problem with drying sheets. Although it takes 6-7 minutes for sheets to ball up again,it still helps

Dex

 

[paulc]

In the 18 months i've owned my BOL Indesit dryer I've only once had bedding roll into a ball, this was my fault for not shaking the load out. My dryer has two paddles also but they are wave shaped and off set from each other so as to move the load in a figure of eight movement, this coupled with reverse tumbling for equal amounts of time ensures fast even drying.

 

[haxisfan]

Intrigues me to know why BSH group dryers don't reverse.

Most dryers reverse even for a short time... but Bosch/Siemens! Has any1 ever tried to complain to Bosch/Siemens for the lack of reverse action in the dryers and obtained a response? I'd be really curious to hear it... there must be some valid philosophy behind...

@gorenje, does yours run the entire cycle revolving in 1 direction... or does it occasionally stop and carries on in the same direction?

 

[henene4]

The BSH dryers don't reverse, and someone I knew asked them why, and they said that they would be drying as effective as the others there and the little plastic thing in the back of the tub (which was added about a year after the dryers were launched) would prevent balling. Further, they do 2 stops at the beginging, then run on without stop till irondry, than the number of stopps increases with advancing drying time.
But it happens all the time! Some times this problem resolves it self (you can see the load balling up and then, the ball dissapears again), but sometimes, it just stays as it is.
I mostly dry the duvet- and pillowcovers together (2-3 sets), than I run the bedspreads seperatly (2 at one time usually), maybe some toweling mixed with it. Mixing helps as well as closing everything up comletly, not over- or underloading and zippers on you beddings help either. And seperate non-closeable, big items like bedspreads serperatly!
Once I tried to mix heavy (towels, jeans) and light (shirts, socks etc.) items, and this seems to work best. The heavier ones are mixing the lighter ones through, as long as you have the right mix (about 40/60 to 50/50, this is what works best for me) .

 

[logixx]

I have one of these infamous BSH dryers and have found that I can dry pretty much anything BUT large, lightweight items. For the past couple of weeks, I have dried fitted sheets alongs with towels and other small items (underwear) in one load and didn't have problems. Sure, some stuff like wash cloths will get caught in a fitted sheets, but that's to be expected. Also loads of just bedding (pillow cases + duvet covers) dry without problems, as long as it's not that lightweight microfibre stuff from non-reversing dryer hell. This stuff balls up no matter what. Dryer balls don't do nothing.

I have found that larger loads are less likly to ball up, simply because itmes don't have enough room to tangle.

Alex

 

[haxisfan]

Thanks guys for addressing the BSH mystery.

So, the stopping and starting of the drum together with some loading tricks would... well... do the trick! Personally I don't take any particular measure to load the dryer, however, I always shake open item by item as I'm taking them out of the washer... this takes me to my next point...

I don't mean to hijack this thread and I apologise in advance if I'm slightly doing so... it's just a little thought I had for a while and it didn't seem worth starting a new blog for it... and now all this talk about the lacking of such a popular feature in dryers reminds me of the lack of another popular feature on washing machines: I'm talking about the anti-crease soft disposal tumbles that all front loading washers do at the end of the cycle... whereas modern Hoover/Candy washers don't include in their programs (but on delicates briefly). I'm intrigued here by reverse phsycology, having also used non-Hoover/Candy washers, I've noticed no difference in the outcome (apart from the shaking described above): so there I am questioning the usefulness of this added phase... um... maybe I should start a new thread

 

[ozzie908]

I have the same heat pump dryer

and it too rolls all the bedding and any other large items into a ball, I check it when it says finished and nearly always have to restart the cycle after untangling the duvet cover, Oh and have tried all the tricks of the trade to no avail.

 

Austin

 

[gorenje]

@ Haxifan

My Bosch dryer occasionally stops for a few seconds but than carries on in the same direction.

I have a model without the conus on the back of the drum. But my father has a brand new heat pump Bosch dryer with the conus added on the back of the drum, but there is no difference in tangling. Its tangles like mine does.

 

[richardc1983]

Thanks for the comments and suggestions guys.

I think what I am going to do is wash the duvet cover pillow cases and fitted sheet separatly and then do a normal clothes wash.

I will then place all this into the dryer at the same time apart from the fitted sheet as it seems the fitted sheet and the elastic is what causes it to ball up.

The fitted sheet can go in last on its own I don't think will take long to dry this.

The problem with a heat pump dryer is that it takes a long time for the heat to build up inside due to how the technology works as it isn't instant heat due to not using heating elements. So opening the door (which the manual says not to do during cycle) releases the build up of mild heat. It dries at a lower temperature as well. So starting the cycle again means that it has to then build the heat back up.

I could even put the fitted sheet over the door during the first drying cycle so it gets a head start.

From research online people seem to say it is the fitted sheet that is the culprit. Ive put mixed loads in before with the fitted sheet and its just balled up all the same so drying the sheet on its own is the only thing I haven't tried yet.

I will report back

 

[arbilab]

Every dryer I ever had rolled sheets into a ball. Just have to go every 15 minutes and untangle them. Didn't bother me.

PS, I never had a bidirectional dryer, might help, might not.

 

[vacbear58]

Beko Dryer

As may have been observed from one of the other threads I have had one of these too, for just over a year. I think the balling of the sheets must be as a result of the elasticated edges, I cannot recall too much of a problem with duvet covers although I usually dry bed lines on the line if I can - not much recently though with all the wet weather we have been having. Usually when I am frying sheets & duvet covers in the dryer I will open it up half way just to check if things are being tangled.

I was surprised though when I used my 1980 vintage Philips 162 dryer (as I have done a few times) for, although it is not a reversing dryer, it does not seem to ball and tangle up the clothes very much - really not much more than the reversing dryers I have had in recent years

Al

 

[robliverpool]

I have a 3 year old vented hotpoint. It spends a few minutes turning in one direction then a few minutes in the other direction and I've never had a problem with tangling. I did have a condenser white knight dryer that I had to get rid of after a year as it used to tangle everything esp bedding. It would only reverse for a few seconds.

 

[launderess]

Bedding Tangling In Dryer

Solved that problem ages ago; simply line dry everything.

It does help that one irons our bed linen on various machines from the collection, so that's me for you.

 

[electron1100]

Balls

I had an AEG lavatherm computer controlled thingy once and that only reversed oaccasionally and then only for a few seconds, and would ball up sheets etc............
My Hoover D6144 reversing dryer doesn't ball up sheets etc.........37 secs one direction and 37 secs the other...........

 

[electron1100]

Line drying

oh most definately, given the opportunity the wash is on the line every time.