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Still sounds like a blockage in the condenser, not easy to see but it doesn’t take much on those machines, even a small build up in the bottom can cause problems.
Model numbers would help. Gunge build up in the large plastic condenser is a common cause, a bit of a pain to get at to remove and clean out.:(
ALL heat pump dryers are condenser dryers. It states that machine has a water tank however even the old style condenser dryers could in most cases be fitted with a drain hose if you had a suitable place to drain it into, thus saving the need to empty the water container. It doesn’t say a draining kit is ‘required’ it says one is supplied, that means you can use it if you want.
You would expect the manual to specify that. ?? To be truthful Hoover/Candy tumble dryers were always near the bottom of my list even 10, 15 years ago.:(
Quick drying mode is possibly 2 hours. As Don has already said, this dryer would not get an A+ rating if it had a heating element in it. It is a bog standard heat pump condenser dryer.
Looking at the knobs and buttons this looks very much like your machine. https://ao.com/product/batdh7a1tce-h…b&gclsrc=3p.ds
That’s your original model surely which is a heat pump dryer. I meant the one your installer says has this dual function? All heat pump dryers are also condensing dryers in as much as they ‘condense’ the moisture on a condenser that allows the water to trickle into a container for you to empty. The old style basic condenser dryer uses a heating element to provide the heat source, the heat pump condenser dryer uses a very expensive compressor unit to provide the ‘very low’ heat. I do not know of any dryers on the market that have both a heating element and also a heat exchange compressor?
That one certainly does not have old type condenser dryer capability, it would not get an A+ rating if it did. The supplier is talking Horlicks.
No, whilst you will see the odd You Tube video of someone trying to repair the bearings in a welded drum, it’s not really feasible. Sadly this has been the case for a large number of appliances available over the past ten years or more. There are one or two machines that still have splittable drums but they are in the minority. In most cases failed bearings mean a new machine.:(
I wouldn’t give more than £15.00 for an old spin dryer of that age, it probably cost less than £75 brand new. Never heard of Umelone but for many years now most stand alone spin dryers have been cheap Chinese imports.
Don would know better but I think the last built in vented dryers came from Crosslee/ White Knight and they went out of business several years ago.:(
