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[–] 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Heat pump dryers have a huge drawback though: the heat exchanger is woven through the condenser. So you cannot remove the condenser from the system. The lint which is not in the trap thus builds up in the condenser over time. Bad enough, but that's also where the moisture goes. So after several years it will start to reek, and your laundry will start to reek, as the reheated air goes through there.

So, long story short, cleaning that mess: you're going to have a bad time, as you can't just remove the unit and cleanse it under running water. I would rather buy just a condenser dryer (or check up whether heat pump dryers became better, our model is 7 years old now, maybe they're better nowadays).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (2 children)

    You just need to brush it out about once a year. Might need to partially take it apart depending on the model.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    Looks like that in my machine

    There is a brush that came with it and the manual said the same, but after 5 years of family use, that stuff was not only in the front anymore. I had to use a pressure washer and some chlorine based detergent to get rid of everything (if I knew about an ozone generator back then I might've tried that against the odor).

    YMMV. If you're using it e.g. in a 2-person household you might never have that issue during the whole expected lifetime, but with our usage and especially all that babystuff, that happened, and I hated it 😅.

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