Buying a new washing machine (Ireland/Europe) need advice..

[revvinkevin]

Question on reversing dryers

 

 

Does a reverse tumble dryer really make <span style="text-decoration: underline;">that much difference</span>?   The reversing dryers are more prevalent in Europe but rarely seen in the US.   I have a 16 year old Frigidare Gallery FL washer & dryer and one of the "big features" of the dryer is the "reverse tumbling".   Personally I have seen no real benefit as sheets and such still roll up into a ball.

 

Thanks!

Kevin

 

[henene4]

Well, TOTALY!

See, our dryers are round about half that big as yours in terms of drum-volume. So reversing is the only way to keep clothes untangeld. I own a not reversing dryer, and it can be hell. I have to dry at least 4 beadspreads to keep them untangeld, but than they crease. if i dry only 2 or even 1 at a time, they tangle. (And yes, the Siemens is abled to tangle on sheet into a ball. Believe it or not!)

 

[iej]

Miele reversing vented dryer - sheets NEVER tangled.
Bosch non reversing dryer - sheets come out like a football.

 

[revvinkevin]

 

 

Well OK!    

 

Thanks to both of you for the info!

 

Kevin

 

[w5872]

Miele

James, may I call you James? lol

Where are you in Ireland? There are three Miele's in the local PrelovedAppliances Galway for €300...

Bargain!

I've an Edition 111 5872. Can't really fault it. I love it. And plus i can tinker with it max water level is amazing for rinsing (each to their own) but it gurantees that my bf and I don't get itchy flare ups and it has helped greatly with his asthma.

feel free to drop me a line @ [email protected]

 

[w5872]

oh

One of the miele's is a slightly retro dialled novotronic...

Just in case that tickles your fancy

 

[passatdoc]

"My" Bosch dryer in the Berlin hotel suite (2012) did not tangle clothes. It may well have been a reversing dryer. But I didn't have time to sit and watch it, I was too busy seeing Berlin. Given that I was a long-time board member here, in retrospect I should have taken photos of it to show fellow members. I assume it was vented, in that there was no water container to remove, nor were any instructions posted about getting rid of condensed water in the sink.

I brought along a few snack-sized ZipLock bags, each with 30 ml of HE powder, from the states, knowing that I would arrive in Berlin in the evening (from Kiev) and stores might be closed at that hour. I had already been away from home for six days, so I used that detergent to wash two loads of clothes, then headed over to the central train station to meet friends arriving by train from Schönefeld Airport, having flown in from Stockholm (they didn't know their way around Berlin, nor do they speak German, so I made sure I was waiting on the platform when their train rolled in).

The next day, I went to a Rewe market to buy 5-6 packets of Persil to bring home. The cashier was incredulous when I explained, "Es gibt kein Persil in Amerika....da wissen wir nicht, was wir haben. Auch gibt's leider kein Ariel oder Klementine".

("There is no Persil in USA. Therefore we don't know what we have/are using. Also unfortunately there is no Ariel or Klementine".

The second sentence was a parody of Persil's long-running slogan "Da weiß man, was man hat..." "that way you know what you have/are using". Third sentence refers to Ariel's long-time German tv ad spokesperson, "Klementine").

 

[logixx]

Bosch dryers stopped reversing years ago. They can be made to reverse adding a little component (as I read on facebook).

Here's mine.

 

[henene4]

Logixx...

... now you made me curious! What component? How big is the work? And ,most of all, how?

 

[foraloysius]

Jim,

That dryer in Berlin, did it have a square door or a round door?

 

[logixx]

@ henene

Don't know, really. I read the comment on Siemens's facebook page. It's from Josef, who used to post a lot on the German forum and also has an eBay shop and his own store, selling domestic and commercial laundry machines. He said that "there are technicians, who can reintroduce reverse tumbling by adding a small component". I'll link to to his home page: http://www.elektrocentral.de/

 

[iej]

Miele dryers always did a very nice job of reversing.