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I'm not hugely fond of White Knight dryers - they always seem noisy when I've seen them working, though it's largely been condenser ones I've seen recently. I see White Knight are back selling washers again too, though I've not seen one for a long time in the stores.

Peter - my Zanussi dryer, same model, has the same occasional squeak - but I just ignore it and it goes away. The dryer itself is great. The drum light didn't last very long, but I hadn't realised it had one when I bought it and don't particularly miss having it, so I never bothered getting it replaced. If the squeak gets worse I'll call them out to fix it, but it's not bad enough to really bug me yet.
 
Skew Whiff

i like to hear diffdrent regional dialects and their variations. How do you guys pronounce Skew Whiff. Here in Crewe its SKI WHIFF for some reason. Yeah i guess for the £118 a white knight costs its great but when you have been spoilt with a squeaky Hoover HDV6 that breaks all the time . . . . Lol. With white knights not being my choice of dryer for the slowness i admit, but they seem to have a following here. Glad people enjoy them.
 
Thanks for the link. The gas company was selling them overhere but stopped doing it. I believe there were a lot of problems with them. I noticed they don't have an electronic model, only models with timers. I'm also amazed that they still make dryers that don't have reverse tumble. I thought there weren't any of those around anymore.
 
Louis - quite a few manufacturers in the UK still do make models without a reverse tumble. Indesit/Creda, White Knight, Whirlpol etc still do. The new design Bosch dryers do too, using Asko's excuse in the form of the "specially designed paddles".

Jon
 
Yes, I read about the Bosch dryers and I knew about the Asko ones. But they somehow make that a feature. I had a look at the Dutch Indesit website, overhere they only sell reversing dryers. The Dutch Whirlpool site doesn't give information about it. It's not mentioned in the details. It's possible that some brands don't sell the BOL models overhere.
 
Dryers!!

White Knight dryers must possibly be the most bought dryers in the UK I would think, good price, simple design, (Vented models still based on Philips) and they do seem to do a reasonable job...granted not as well built now as the models of the 80`s ....

Louis , is the Coopra dryer linked to the Coopra Heating Group etc??
looks a nice style, although gas, I didnt think the burner was a total high rater, but that the heat output was similar to equivalent electric dryer..

Interesting point about reverse/no reverse, The bigger the drum the less need for reverse IMHO...proves it with commercial & US dryers...the smaller machines we had built here such as Hoover, Hotpoint , Servis Creda did benefit hugely from reversing just to move the clothes evenly through the heat source...(Hoover was probably the best, reversing every 70secs)

Another major difference is that "Laundry Loads" are vastly different to past years, Fabrics are bulkier, sizes/styles are bigger, hence they dont clump down when wet like fabrics did years ago..

I`m interested to see where/how the Bosch dryers take off in sales with the big drum/ no reverse route...for what it costs to make a drum reverse its peanuts in the profit of the dearer dryers to make it do so....

I certainly dont think that companies like Bosch / Asko / Maytag would (in these competitive times) risk selling dryers, and losing market share, that dont reverse if there was a major issue with it not reversing..."Excuse or no Excuse" which is an interesting statement!!!!

So, IMHO, the bigger the dryer drum you "CAN" get away with no reverse....
 
Mike,

I have absolutely no idea if the Coopra dryer and the Coopra Heating Group were related. If you hadn't mentioned the Coopra Heating Group I still wouldn't have known about it.

I don't know with how a big heating element that dryer was sold. After my post yesterday I remembered you leased the dryer for three years from the gas company and after that you were able to buy it for 1 Dutch guilder. Although we have big natural gas resources I don't think the gas dryer became very popular. At the moment I think only Miele sells a gas dryer on the Dutch market. The biggest competitors for that dryer are the heat pump dryers from AEG and Blomberg.

I agree with you about the reversing being less important when the drum is bigger.
 
white knight bad

I have also had one of these small dryers was worse then useless. Although it dired towles not too bad anything bulkier or odd shaped did not dry at all. Reverse tumble is a joke on this machine. In their defence I am told that white knight still make the best dryers around and are responsible for the new Bosch models. As I ahve just purchased one of these we will see how it turns out.
 
Cbosch, White Knight haven't made dryers for Bosch for about 2 or 3 years now. Before, only their "classixx" range was produced by white knight, but now all dryers are made in Germany by Bosch bar the Classixx vented dryer, which is made by Gorenje in Slovenia.

Jon
 
Thanks I stand corrected

Thanks my information was wrong glad to hear that feel a bit hapier
 

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