If you have a large family and do not have a garden or a drying area, getting your washed clothes dry can be a real problem. However, if you have a tumble dryer, the drying section of your laundry process can be quite faster and will also leave your fabrics soft and fluffy. A tumble dryer consists of a rotating drum referred to as a tumbler where wet clothes are loaded. Through the tumbler, heated air is circulated to evaporate the moisture from the load. There are two distinct varieties of tumbler dryers that you need to investigate while choosing a dryer for your home, namely, vented tumbler dryer and condenser tumbler dryer.

Vented vs. Condenser

While the vented tumble dryer requires a vent to outdoors to expel the hot damp air, a condenser dryer sends the damp air into a condensing chamber where a metal condenser turns the steam into water and is collected into a plastic tank. Vented tumble dryers are ideal for those looking for a low budget yet efficient clothes dryer. In comparison to condenser dryers, the other variety comes in a much lower price range and consumes lesser energy. You can either use a permanent vent that can be fitted in an outside wall or can simply hang the hose out of an open window. Apart from this, vented tumble dryers are also more reliable and require less maintenance, though you occasionally need to clean the vent. In a condenser dryer you need to manually empty the tank containing the steam-turned water on a regular basis so they require more maintenance than the vented varieties. The only limitation with air vented washer dryers is their need to be installed near an outside wall or window which is sometimes not feasible for people living in a flat. Otherwise, in the form of a vented tumble dryer you can get a cheaper, more reliable and low maintenance clothes dryer that can dry your clothes much more efficiently while saving on your electricity bills as well.

Impressive Siemens vented dryer

One of the leading manufacturers of air vented tumble dryers is Siemens Home Appliances and the latest launch from the company is the Siemens WT36V398GB. It has been the leading innovator in home appliances for more than 100 years and its products have been setting the benchmarks in the market. They cater for the most demanding and wide-ranging needs of a modern lifestyle and each product express a distinctive sense of style in its design. The Siemens clothers dryer comes in a pure white colour and its design and styling is quite pleasing to look at. It has the dimensions of (H XD X W) 84.2 X 62.5 X 59.8 (cm) and includes left and rear venting positions for allowing easy discharge of the hot damp air. The Siemens air vented tumble dryer includes a final cool cycle and intermittent tumble at the end of the cycle for reduced creasing of the loaded clothes and therefore, making your ironing easier. The maximum drying capacity of the clothes dryer is 8 kg so it is quite suitable for a large family.

Useful drying features

For offering a greater flexibility with drying, the Siemens WT36V398GB includes 3 drying temperatures. You can use the higher temperature for heavy items like curtains and the lower ones for delicate and soft items like nylons and woolen clothes. The wide opening door provided in the Siemens clothes dryer provides an ease of loading and unloading clothes and the easily accessible filter offers a faster and easy cleaning of the machine, thereby keeping it efficient for long time. You can preset the start time of a drying cycle for future using the 24 hours delay start time function of the Siemens WT36V398GB dryer. There is the clothes dry indicator light which tells you about the completion of a dry cycle and saves your electricity. In addition, there is a filter full indicator that tells you when the fluff filter needs emptying and the water reservoir full indicator that lets you know when you need to empty the water reserviour so that you can avoid overflowing of water. You can also update and add new programmes to the tumble dryer or alter programmes to suit new fabrics using the PC update function of the Siemens WT36V398GB appliance. It includes a Uni-directional drum action and comes with an optional stacking kit using which you can stack the dryer safely with a washing machine and save your valuable space.

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