White Knight 37AW Tumble Dryer

I can not comment on the other reviewer's negative comments as I have had no problems with mine and have not needed any form of customer service. I have had one of these dryers for the last 6 years and use it regularly. It is compact, very simple to use and very reliable. My White Knight Dryer also says it was made in Britain (which does not always inspire confidence). To be honest, I did not expect to still be using it today as it was so cheap. It has easily paid for itself.

Obviously a half-sized dryer is not of great use to families but I can heartily recommend it to couples, single people, students, people in flats or where space is a premium. It will also fit into practically any car and it is light enough that it can be carried by one (strong-ish) person.

I would not hesitate to buy another, should mine break down any time soon.

(They are available more cheaply elsewhere, if you look around - mine was from Co-Op Electrical)

The amount of laundry produced in our house has slowly crept up on me, without me really noticing too much. First there was just the two of us, not too much washing there, and only one lot of bed linen to wash per week. Then came baby 1, a few babygrows and cot blankets extra, but nothing I couldn't handle. Then Baby 2. By this time, baby 1 was a toddler and I had all his stuff, plus ours, plus an extra load of bedlinen, plus all of baby 2's babygrows and vests. Stll, I seemed to absorb the extra work without noticing. I did start noticing when baby 3 came along though, because by now I was doing a couple of washloads a day and wet washing was hanging off every chair and radiator in the house, making the place a bit damp. It was at this point I decided I needed a tumble dryer.

There was a lot of choice available, vented or condenser, compact or full size? And then there is the colour to consider! I looked through all the options available, and decided to opt for the cheapest and smallest, the White knight 37AW, because I reasoned I probably wouldn't be using it that much, right?

The White Knight 37AW is a compact white tumble dryer. It measures 470 X 500 X 670 mm (h x w x d), so it is a perfect size for slotting into a small area of the kitchen or utility room. My neighbour keeps hers in the shed! It is white.

The dryer is really easy to use. it is a front loading machine, and has a door with a catch that you just flip open. The door doesn't lock when you are drying laundry, so you can open it at any time to see how the load is progressing. When you open the door, the machine automatically stops, and restarts again when you shut the door.

At the front of the machine are two simple controls. the one on the right is a flip switch that lets you choose a hot or a cool cycle. Generally I choose the cooler setting, because i don't want all my clothes to shrink, but if I'm drying towels or sheets I tend to blast them on the hot setting.
The dial on the left allows you to control how much time the laundry is in for. It goes up to 120 minutes, but I have never needed to use it for that long. I tend to find 30-40 minutes in adequate to get everything dry. The cycle has a final cool down tumble feature at the end of the cycle.

There is a filter at the front of the dryer that collects the lint and fluff from the clothes. You need to clean this regularly, which is really easy. you just pull away the lint and bin it or compost it, if you are being eco friendly and the fibres are natural. It is said that Mrs Thatcher enjoyed emptying the lint from her tumble dryer!

The dryer is vented, which means all the moist air goes down a plastic pipe.when I bought the drier, I has nowhere to vent it, as the tube did not reach the window. I bought a condensing kit for about £[] from Amazon, but it didn't really work very well and the moist air fogged up the windows. We later got a builder to but a vent hole in the outside wall and now the tube is vented directly through the wall to outside. No more foggy windows!

The machine retails between £99 and £129,depending where you get it from. I have had it several years and it has never broken down or given me any trouble. When I get shirts out of the machine, they are usually smooth and don't need ironing if I hang them up straight away, so extra bonus there! I don't know how I ever coped without it. it is a great, reliable little machine. The load capacity is 3kg, as it is only a compact machine. I don't find the machine particularly noisy. It is certainly quieter than a washing machine and gently hums in the background.
Energy rating D.

Absolutely top notch product. Well built and great value for money. Our White Knight tumble drier is over 20 years old and is still working perfectly. We bought the new model as a wedding present. I'm sure the newly weds will be as chuffed with White Knight as we are.