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About 55% of households in Australia own a clothes dryer. Clothes dryer use varies widely, with some households using them as little as once per month while others use them to dry every load that they wash. If you are a moderate to heavy user of a dryer, it is important to pay particular attention to the star rating when you buy, but you may also want to consider a gas fired dryer which, although more expensive to buy and install, will be cheaper to run, dry faster and have lower greenhouse gas emissions. (gas dryers to not have star rating labels in Australia). Another option is a heat pump dryer which is extremely efficient, but is also substantially more expensive to buy.
The two main types of clothes dryers are timer and autosensing type machines. Autosensing dryers can save energy by avoiding over drying of the load.
Check the program options and temperature settings available to make sure that they are suitable for the load types that you are likely to dry. A cool down period at the end of the drying operation is a good idea too to reduce wrinkling of the load.
Make sure that you look for the stars to help you identify an efficient model!
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This page last modified 27 June 2007
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