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I must admit I’m sceptical (unless the technology improves a lot…) Having to spend 4 x noisy hours drying clothes which used to take 40 minutes is hardly an improvement.!
This machine is the most expensive tumble dryer I’ve ever bought. It’s also the noisiest, slowest and least effective…
By a loooong way 🙁
Many thanks Don and Iadom for helping me identify the problem but I gotta ask… do other people have a low opinion of heat-pump technology or is it just me??
Good tip Don! I took a look at the energy label which states that the typical drying time is over 4 hours!! This compares with around 40 minutes for my previous dryers so it’s gonna have to go – but just one more question…
My previous dryers were all of the air-vented type – but then again, they were all free-standing. This is the first built-in/condensing dryer I’ve ever owned. Do you know if it’s possible to get built-in dryers which are air-vented? Or is that normally only available with free-standing units?
What does A+ rated mean? Does it refer to the power consumption maybe? And yes, I think you’re right about it being a re-badged Hoover dryer, rather than a Hotpoint. That’d explain why I couldn’t find anything similar among the Hotpoint dryers. Hopefully someone here might recognise it from the Hoover range.
Many thanks Don. I should have stated that it’s a condensing dryer – or can a condensing one also be a heat pump one ??
According to the article, it doesn’t look like they’re found in the same machine.
Hi Dave – so if we ignore frost-free for a moment… back in the day, freezers weren’t usually described as low-frost – but it’s sounding like there’s no real difference between those older types and a modern, low-frost freezer ?
[Edit…] I’ve been reading online that a low-frost freezer apparently works by moving some of the freezer’s air into the refrigerator somehow – thereby reducing frost in the freezer while increasing it slightly in the fridge. So maybe that’s not working properly in my case??
Thanks Dave – by “door compartment” I mean the area in front of the freezer drawers (i.e. the bit the door fits into). The frost there seems to build up much quicker than on the main walls.
Samuri – There’s no obvious damage to the door seal but Hotpoint advised me to heat it up with a hairdryer (which I’ve just done). So I’ll see if that makes any difference. Apparently it causes the seal to re-shape itself.
Regarding the frost build-up (mentioned in post #3) do those amounts look excessive to you guys or would you say they’re normal for a low-frost freezer? I was kinda shocked to see how quickly the frost built up but then again, I’ve only ever had frost-free freezers in the past. Maybe this is normal?
BTW – do you happen to know if there’s a dedicated Hotpoint or Whirlpool forum somewhere? I haven’t been able to find one… I came across a Whirlpool automotive forum but not one for fridges and freezers etc 🙁
Many thanks tubafan. After about 4 days, frost on the freezer walls was around 1.5 – 2 mm but what drew my attention was the frost around the door compartment which was more like 5mm and that’s what caused me to ring Whirlpool (i.e. Hotpoint). On the phone, their rep said there was no way I should be seeing that much frost after just a few days and it was her suggestion to send an engineer. But when the engineer arrived, he told me it looked normal and that low frost (somehow) didn’t mean there’d be a low amount of frost.
I guess I’m just surprised that this didn’t appear in any of the reviews I read (and I must’ve read around two dozen…)
