Beko DRVS 62 W Tumble Dryer

April 5, 2010 at 10:05 · Filed under Angry Stuff ·Tagged Beko DRVS 62 W, Clothes Dryer, Dryer, Sensor Dryer, Tumble Dryer

This has to be possibly THE most boring thing I’ll have ever blogged about. But I’m so fucking frustrated by this gutless, underpowered piece of shit of a *dryer* (and I use that term loosely)  that I just can’t go on anymore without ranting it out to the rest of the world in the hopes that it’ll save at least one person from buying one.

This is what Beko have monikored a ‘sensor dryer’. Now you’d think that was a good thing right? A dryer that has a sensor that determines when your clothes are dry enough and then stops drying them, thus saving your clothes, your pocket on wasted electricity and of course, the environment. Only it isn’t. Because in the case of this dryer the point that it decides your clothes are satisfactorily ‘Ready To Wear’ is approximately 5 minutes from being removed from the washer and tumbled around its minature sized drum in a damp cold breeze. And during those 5 minutes the ‘Clean Filter’ light flashes and the ‘heat’ stops.

Fair enough you think – if there’s lint in the filter trap then it may affect the heat (why? I don’t know) but ok we’ll go with that. Well I’d go with it if it wasn’t for the fact that when you open the bastard filter you’d actually struggle to find enough fluff to pack your own belly button.

I’m failing to see the economy and savings of ‘sensor drying’ here because in past experience of using a dryer a full load of clothes including jeans and towels is generally dry in around an hour +/-. In the Beko DRVS 62 W the only thing you’ll have achieved in one hour will be to have opened the lint trap 19 times to remove 4 hairs, snatch angrily at the heap of damp clothes and then swear profusely that you’re going to invite the CEO of Beko to your kitchen to dare to wear the ‘Ready To Wear’ items currently sat in a puddle of humidity inside this hideous creation.

Fortunately ‘Ready To Wear’ is not the only setting available to not dry your clothes. There are also preset timings from 10 mins to whatever which, from what I understood from the manual you can use if you have clothes that just need a bit more drying off (say perhaps, if they’d just been brought in off the washing line not quite dry enough to put away or have just been rolling around on the ‘Ready To Wear’ setting of this dryer for the last 48 hours). Only, guess what – even that setting decides that soaking wet is dry enough and switches off after a few turns of the drum leaving the clothes tumbling about in cold air and the ‘Clean Filter’ light flashing.

You also have ‘Delicates’. I haven’t tried this setting as I can only imagine given my experience of the regular dryer setting, Beko’s interpretation of ‘Delicate treatment’ would not only ensure no heat reaches your clothes and that the clothes are not subjected to more than 0.1g of unsightly fluff sat in the lint trap but it probably prevents the drum from spinning giving an all round dry factor of ‘Festering Sour Clothes’. In fact this setting may as well be labelled ‘Storage’. A place for you to hide your clothes between the wash and the wear. Much like the dirty laundry basket is a place to contain your clothes between the wear and the wash.

In fact that’s all I can summarise out of this rant.

Beko DRVS 62 W – A great wet clothing storage receptacle with annoying beeps, flashing lights and large electric bill.

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