Fix tumble dryer

I am getting reports that the plastic water container inside the door of Hoover or Candy condenser tumble dryers often needs replacing. Fortunately they are very easy to fit, though you wouldn’t expect that anything would go wrong with one in the first place. What is going wrong? Sometimes cracks have appeared somewhere on the

If you have a problem with a tumble dryer drum not turning round you’d think that the motor was the main suspect. But the fault is more likely to be a broken drive belt. This article shows you how to tell which fault you may have, and advises on the various related issues. Drive belt

This article is about faults that can cause a noisy tumble dryer. However, due to the way dryers are designed, many tumble dryer noises can be difficult to fix because you need to strip the entire dryer down to get to some parts. This article gives general guidance without specific stripping down instructions. Tumble dryers,

The most common causes of a tumble dryer not heating up are either a faulty heating element, or a faulty stat (or TOC). A TOC is an acronym for thermal overload cutout and it’s essentially a heat activated fuse. Other common causes are faulty connections, and float switch or condenser sensor faults in condenser dryers.

Condenser tumble dryers don’t use a vent hose, and should turn all the steam into water. But because they create heat when running, a condenser dryer will heat the air around it and the moisture in the air will condense on any cold surface such as tiles or even other appliances near by – especially

Is your tumble dryer not drying laundry as well as it used to and instead leaving them damper than you’d like? Here’s a quick tip regarding something that could create this fault on a modern tumble dryer. Modern tumble dryers usually use sensors to detect the dampness of laundry inside the drum. However, lime in our water, or