The first is brand. Looking at the brand of the product is often a really good indicator for judging product quality. For example you’d expect a much higher quality product from a brand known for providing excellent quality than you would from an unknown or even a budget brand. Next up is material. Read through the product description for Bosch WTW85231GB 8KG Heat Pump Tumble Dryer to get an understanding of the materials the product is made from. Some materials will obviously be known for delivering better quality item than others. You might also have decided that you’ll only accept a product made from a particular material. The SensitiveDrying System cares for your laundry perfectly by introducing mild, warm air from all sides. This is enhanced by the soft, curved paddles in the drum, which means your laundry never lies flat, so it doesn’t crease. The result: gently dried laundry that’s perfectly soft and fluffy, and free of wrinkles. SelfCleaning Condenser™: automatic condenser cleaning guarantees a high drying performance with durably low energy consumption SensitiveDrying System: the unique drum structure protects and delivers a drying performance without creases

If the brand you buy is important to you, our best advice is to spend some time writing up your own list of ideal brands. That way when you come to the point where you’re comparing product options you can filter to only show the products from brands in your list. Whether it's partly dried or fully dried, Bosch tumble dryers adjust the drying programs to suit your needs. Bosch ActiveAir uses heat pump technology to heat air and dry your garments efficiently. The warm is recirculated and reused in the drying cycle. In addition to using significantly less energy than a standard condenser model, heat pump dryers are also more gentle on your clothes. Our Bosch AutoDry technology constantly monitors the progress of your cycle and will automatically adjust the drying time to suit your load. Programme time of the standard cotton programme at full load 211 min and programme time of the standard cotton programme at partial load 135 min The programme Cottons cupboard dry used at full and partial load is the standard drying programme to which the information in the label and the fiche relates, this programme is suitable for drying normal wet cotton laundry and is the most efficient programme in terms of energy consumption for cottonAverage condensation efficiency of the standard cotton programme at full load 84 % and average condensation efficiency of the standard cotton programme at partial load 84 % Price is another really important factor for analysing the quality of Bosch WTW85231GB 8KG Heat Pump Tumble Dryer vs other products in the Tumble dryers category. It’s obvious, but you will need to set your expectations of quality based on your budget and the price of the product you’re looking at, against the price of alternatives. More information on quality can be found in this old but still very helpful article from Harvard Business Review.

Energy consumption of the standard cotton programme at full load 1.87 kWh and energy consumption of the standard cotton programme at half load 1.14 kWh Find out why Bosch WTW85231GB 8KG Heat Pump Tumble Dryer scored an incredible review score of 8.6 out of 10.Bosch's heatpump dryer with SelfCleaning Condenser™, Great performance guaranteed along with long life low consumption. Of the 92 products, we discovered that 4 were more expensive and 87 were cheaper than Bosch WTW85231GB 8KG Heat Pump Tumble Dryer. Prices from Bosch Heat Pump Dryers with the SelfCleaning Condenser protect your clothing and remain highly energy efficient. Thanks to the SelfCleaning Condenser technology, the condenser is cleaned automatically, up to four times during the drying process, which maintains top energy performance cycle after cycle. Heat pump dryers from Bosch are designed to run efficiently whilst gently drying your clothes. Just before we get into the detail of analysing the price of this product, we want to briefly highlight the importance of setting yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a suitable product. It’s all too often that we get carried away when shopping and find ourselves buying a fantastic product, but probably actually overdelivers on what we need and therefore costs a lot more than we should have spent. So spend a bit of time looking around at the sort of price you can expect to pay for products in the Tumble dryers category and use that alongside your own financial situation to set yourself a budget.

LED Display for remaining time and 24 hours time delay, programme status indication, special functionsTouch control buttons: Low heat, Reduced ironing, Drying length, start/pause, fine-tuning for drying level, 24 h end Time Delay

As you can imagine, pricing is one of the most important factors of any purchasing decision. We can find the perfect product for our needs, that fits the brief in every single way. But if it doesn’t fit our budgets, we simply can’t (or at least shouldn’t) buy it. The next step was to try and narrow down our search even more. So we’ve already looked the prices of products in the Tumble dryers category. Then we’ve also looked at the prices of products from Bosch. So this step combines the two and looks specifically at the price you’d expect to pay for Bosch branded products in the Tumble dryers category. Energy consumption 236.0 kWh per year, based on 160 drying cycles of the standard cotton programme at full and partial load, and the consumption of the low-power modes. Actual energy consumption per cycle will depend on how the appliance is usedThe next step after looking at products in the same category, was to look at products from the same brand, Bosch. Load up your laundry and AutoDry will finish it to the exact level of dryness you want – whether that's dry enough to iron or extra-dry and ready to fold. Its sensors constantly measure the temperature and moisture to protect your laundry from high temperatures and over-drying. Get the perfect dry every time.