Appliance Repairs in Port Elizabeth
Tumble Drier is hot but slow to Dry clothes
When your tumble dryer is heating but
takes a long time to dry the clothes. Most of the time it is a sign that your
tumble dryer has a ventilation problem but there are also a couple of other things that
causes this phenomenon
Possible reasons for not Drying
- Not sorting your clothing properly before
loading into the tumble dryer
- Blocked filters
- Broken belt
- Broken fan
Sorting clothing; Just like when you do washing in a washing Machine and you separated the colors, It is also very important to separate the different
material in a tumble dryer (and also colors). Loading heavy cotton (like jeans,
towels) and woolen clothing together in the tumble dryer will cause the woolen article to stretch. Cotton
takes much longer to dry and the woolen clothing will get heat burns from been
too long in Tumble dryer.
Blocked filters; Blocked fluff filters will cause the tumble dryer to use a lot
more electricity than you suppose to. I am sure you know about the fluff filter
in the door or in the case of whirlpool it has slide in filter on top. Most
people remember to clean this regularly but they forget about the back intake
louvers or the outlet channels.
Broken Belt; You will pick this up straight away, the tumble dryer makes the
usual noises but the drum does not turn. Tumble driers like Kelvinator, Speed Queen
and Whirlpool has safety switches attached to the Drum Belt that will turn of
the unit/heater elements. Some of the other makes make use of an overload
(clickson) to turn off the heaters. By the time the sensors switch off its
already too late and the clothing has been scorch.
Broken Fan; The same motor that turns the inner drum of the tumble dryer has
also got a fan-blade fitted on the other end. The purpose of this fan is to
cool down the motor and also push air through the heater elements. Once the air
has moved over the elements it becomes very hot. The hot-air is then channeled
into the tumble drum through the wet clothing and out the “otherside”.
“Otherside” is the area where cleaners seldom venture. Under and at the backside of a tumble drier
is like the “Darkside of the Moon” for most cleaners. This is also the area where aliens and foreigners hangout
(aliens like fluff, paper, socks and Toys)
Most tumble driers has a outlet
vent or intake grill at the back of the machine. Tumble driers like Defy have
their air intake at the back; Whirlpool again has an outlet vent at the back.
It is very common for one of the above mentioned objects to move into or over the back grill
causing the tumble driers to work ineffectively.
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