Laundry

Laundry

Three decisions cover almost every laundry purchase. Capacity comes first and is quoted in kilograms of dry load: 8kg suits a couple, 9kg is the common family size, and 10 and 11kg machines are worth it if you wash bedding regularly rather than occasionally. Spin speed comes second, and 1400rpm is the standard here, taking enough water out that a dryer or a line has far less work to do. Drying method comes third and is where the running cost sits: a heat pump dryer recycles its own warm air rather than venting it, so it costs considerably less to run and does not need an outside vent, though a cycle takes longer. Where space allows two machines, a separate washer and dryer will out-perform a single washer dryer on both jobs; where it does not, a washer dryer does both in one footprint.

The range covers the main appliance names in Irish homes, with Bosch across Series 4 and Series 6 washing machines and heat pump dryers, Samsung on Ecobubble and AI washing machines and heat pump dryers, Haier across the X Series and I-Pro Series 7, and Beko, Blomberg, Electrolux, Hoover and Hisense filling the range out. The main departments underneath are washing machines, tumble dryers, washer dryers, clothes lines and laundry and irons and steam mops.

Laundry appliances are bought when one breaks rather than when they are cheap, which is why it is worth knowing what is reduced before that happens. Prices are live all year, so see what is reduced now on laundry on sale, or the Black Friday laundry deals.