How to Tip #9 - Clean a heat pump condenser and filters on Electrolux/AEG/john Lewis dryers
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- Опубліковано 30 сер 2013
- with heat pump condenser dryers, you can't remove the heat exchange, you will have to use a toothbrush and water to remove build up of fluff
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I've watched several of these video's. I choose the cut screen option. But with something different than all the others. Before you work down there, use a book thick enough to support the door otherwise you can break the hinges.
1. Cut using a new razor blade, I use the snap-off kind, cut through the screen very close to the edge of the rubber seal and into the plastic housing. Snap off the razor blade tip every two to three inches of screen. Cut the top and two sides. Pull away the screen and fold the bottom so the screen lays flat, the screen will pull away from the two center supports.
2. Get a toothbrush and heat near the brush head to bend the bristle end, I used a high-intensity cigar lighter to bend 90 degrees from the handle. You will need this sharp bend. Wearing a headlamp and laying down on your side, use the toothbrush up and down on the condenser coil in a pull-away from the coil method, be careful not to bend the coil fins. Clean out the lint as you go and suck up the rest with a vacuum, I even blew out the coil after I vacuumed.
3. I used butyl tape to seal the screen back into position, not electrical tape as some Whirlpool techies use. I took some 1/8" x 1"thick butyl seal tape and cut off a 4" strip. Then I cut lengthwise about 1/8" to 3/16" wide strips with my knife. Then these strips are pressed into the cut screen corner against the plastic housing lip and rubber seal with a finger or thumb. NOTE: wet your thumb with water or lick it often to keep it from sticking to you. I used a long hard press for each section. The butyl tape will form into position, but it takes pressure and patience. butyl tape is both heat and water proof. This makes it easier if you ever have to clean it again.
Good Luck!
Thank you! I own an Asko and got a prompt to clean the Condenser. Has no idea what it was and what I had to do.
Thankfully Asko has a filter I was able to remove to clean so I didn’t have to get on the floor with a toothbrush. 🥰
Problem is, the condenser goes right to the back of the machine, you're only cleaning the front of it.
looks like the rubber gasket is damaged/ squashed on the bottom right.....
we have the AEG model and when I noticed the fluff build up as you have it, we took it outside removed the sides and hosed the fluff off, after drying and putting sides back on we added our own extra filtration by cutting open vacuum cleaner bags, so the pull out module has a roll of wire stuck in top which has filter rolled over it and then in front of the fins for the condensor unit we have an additional sheet filter.
all can be remove and cleaned and after several cleans they start to fall apart we replace with the other half left from cutting up the vacuum bag.
just think how much safer but also how much profit they could make if they designed them with the additional disposable filters as I have in place.
My aeg condenser allows my me to remove from machine and clean by using a shower hose. I bought my dryer around 15 years ago. - touch wood, no problems. I think your dryer cleaning demonstration, depends on what type of model you have.
+Sandi Agatha it dose say heat pump in the title, which heat pump condenser units can't be removed. even so AEG/zanussi/electrolux are really good dryers
In instuction manual it said that we remove lint in condenser with a pump with rotating brush... Like everyone has those lol
How about using a workshop vacuum cleaner ?
hard to clean and maintain.. :/
That is the "Heat Pump drier" evaporator, it is where the water will condense. The condenser is the bit that get hot, how do you clean that.
I would try a kind of waterspray to rinse out the fluff from the condensor and then start the cycle to drain the water from the sump. Could work...
Is it safe to spray water into it? Sorry, I don't understand anything about mechanics.
i know :/. normal condensers have a removable heat exchange that can just be rinsed in a shower or sink, siemens heat pump dryers have a self cleaning heat exchange but proved not to work effectivly :(
Tweezers...is the answer
Lower filter is installed improperly. Should be completely below the gray seal of the condenser. You will see problems if leave i that way.
+boogizme what problems. I never had any. Up untill the board went at 5 years old.
all that water could have been absorbed with some towels …..just sayin ( I have never had that problem no water pooling either but I do have to clean the condenser ) and yews guys my one is not even a year old and is a 2018 model and different brand but still has a condenser and yes you still have to use a tile cleaner brush or toothbrush as he has suggested and a vacuum and a very damp cloth.
i wouldern't recomend that could make more problems than it solves
I am so glad that I haven’t got one of the named dryers. It looks a nightmare. What a dreadful design.
i have even a worser one think the first edition lol
This is taking too long....let me at it!!!!🙄🙄🙄