Accordingto recent research, it seems that nearly sixty percent of the household in the United Kingdomactually own a tumble dryer, which mean that around fourteen million householdsuse electricity to dry their clothes when they could just hang them outside orinside therefore saving a lot of energy!
Apparently,using a standard dryer means that you would use around 4KWh of energy andproduce around 1.8 kg of CO2. Even if drying your clothes outside isparticularly difficult in the United Kingdom with so few sunny and dry days.
There arecurrently three types of tumble dryers used in the United Kingdom which are theelectric venting tumble dryer, the electric condensing and finally the gastumble dryer. It seems that the most energy efficient one is actually the gastumble dryer. Sadly though only few of those are being produced and sold here.
Forinformation, a condenser tumble dryer will collect water and you will then haveto empty it, whereas a vented tumble dryer will have a hose that leads the hotair out of the home and need to be connected to an outlet in the wall with avent installed on it.
Another wayof saving energy is for example to buy tumble dryer spare parts like Boschspares or Hotpoint spares when your tumble dryer is broken. By doing so youwill not have to buy another tumble dryer and the life of yours will improve.
Whereasfinding energy efficient fridges is becoming very easy, just as well as gettingfridge spares like white knight spares or others, tumble dryers are not thatgood when it comes to energy saving and a lot of them tend to be in the Crating or even lower instead of A or B.
Interestingly,an A+ fridge used for twenty four hours a day will produce around 116 kg of CO2but an A rated tumble drier used three times a week will generate around 160kgof CO2 per year, which is pretty high.
It is veryimportant nowadays to consider the impact on the environment your applianceswill have, so make sure you check everything before buying a tumble dryer, afridge or anything else. A lot of those appliances can now be bought online andwebsites usually provide a lot of information. On top of that, a lot ofappliances usually have plenty of different programmes with some of them beingmore energy efficient than others.
