SBA Clothes Dryer Energy Cost Calculator

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is Your Dryer Using TO Much Of Your Home's Energy Budget

Maintaining your clothes dryer's Airways can save you energy in the Laundry room? First time clients Average SAVINGS is $187 and 650 HOURS doing laundry per year for most homeowners!

Residential clothes dryers operate in much the same way… they use electricity and gas. Most machines have one motor to turn a drum that tumbles clothes, and the blower. Heated air moves from the back of the machine, as the air is pulled to the front through the lint trap in most clothes dryers. How to prevent static build up...

The air is heated by electricity, or gas as it passes through the drum removing moisture (approx. ½ Gallon of water). Did you know that operating costs vary depending if that air is heated by natural gas or electricity?

Drying Clothes Cost more with Electric dryers use heating elements, while more efficient gas dryers use a gas burner to produce heat. Initial investment for Gas dryers cost approximately $58 more, but natural gas is usually less costly than electricity, so gas dryers will cost less to operate. Depending on your utility rates, drying a load of laundry can cost between 29 to 42 cents in an electric dryer, and 16 to 34 cents in a gas dryer. SBA Members. Did you Know... a gas dryer can save you up to 50 percent in energy costs.