Posted by ian.goodall
Thursday, 9 Jun 2011
As unpredictable as the weather has been lately, I found last Saturday a great opportunity to hang my washing out on the line for the first time in a while. However, when Sunday rolled around and the sky erupted in showers and thunderstorms, I began to wish I owned a tumble dryer.
You see, when the sun shines and the sky that lovely light blue tint, it is fantastically quick to get my just washed clothes dried and back in the cupboard where they belong. But this is the UK, so we see rain far more than we do the sun, and that means I spend most of my time at home surrounded by towels, T-shirts, work shirts and trousers hung from doors and drooped over the landing. And nothing dries very quickly this way. By the time I’ve managed to get one batch dry I’m hanging up another, doomed for my house to resemble a poorly laid out charity shop for eternity.
The solution is simple. Buy a Beko DRCS76W. Why this model? It’s cheap, cheerful, and large enough to fit the washing I’d need in. It has a delay timer too, meaning I can throw my clothes in before work and have them freshly dry for when I get home. Finally, it’s a condenser tumble dryer too, which means I don’t have to place the thing near a vent, which can make installation a bit of a chore.
In the meantime I’m just going to hope that the weather gets better. After all, hope is all we have.