Nice looking but painfully slow
4/5
This was bought as a replacement for a vented dryer I’ve had for 8 years. I wasn’t keen to have to buy a condenser/heat pump type dryer, but it seems to be almost all that’s on the market now. To be fair, the tank is easy to empty and not as messy as condensers I’ve experienced in the past.
It has a good choice of programmes, but I do find this very slow. A load of towels on an eco cycle takes almost 4 hours, and when this finishes the towels are very hot, so if they need a cooling cycle that adds to the time as well.
It’s quite noisy, there’s a constant background buzz/hum while the dryer is running.
There are two filters at the front, and unfortunately I find them messy to clean. As soon as the door is opened, fluff falls out of the first filter and either gets into my laundry or on the floor. When that one is removed, the inner filter also needs to be cleaned. Taking this out to clean means that the fluff that has gathered around the edges of it drops into the space for the filter, requiring me to vacuum it out. Very frustrating.
It’s a nice looking dryer, and a good size for smaller spaces.