Electrolux LAVATHERM T35850 User Manual

LAVATHERM T35850

User manual

Exhaust Dryer

2 Contents

Thank you for choosing one of our high-quality products.

To ensure optimal and regular performance of your appliance please read this instruction manual carefully. It will enable you to navigate all processes perfectly and most efficiently. To refer to this manual any time you need to, we recommend you to keep it in a safe place. And please pass it to any future owner of the appliance.

We wish you much joy with your new appliance.

Contents

	Operating Instructions	3
	Important safety information	3
	Product description	5
	Control panel	6
	Before first use	6
	Sorting and preparing laundry	6
	Laundry weights	7
	Programme overview	8
	Daily use	9
	Switching machine on / switching light on
	Opening loading door / loading laundry	9
		10
	Selecting the programme	10
	Selecting additional options	10
	Setting delay timer	11
	Starting the programme	11
	Changing programme	11
	Putting in extra items or taking items out
	before end of programme	11
	Drying cycle complete / removing laundry
		11
	Care and cleaning	12
	Cleaning fluff filter	12

Cleaning the door	13
Cleaning the drum	13
Clean operating screen and housing	13
What to do if ...	14
Troubleshooting by yourself	14
Machine settings	15
BUZZER SIGNAL permanent off	15
Water hardness	15
Technical data	16
Installation	17
Appliance positioning	17
Removing transport safety packaging	17
Fitting the vent hose	18
Electrical connection	19
Special accessories	20
Environment	21
Environmental tips	21
Service	22
Guarantee/Customer Service	22
GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND	22
European Guarantee	24
www.electrolux.com	24

Subject to change without notice

Important safety information	3

Operating Instructions

Important safety information

In the interest of your safety and to ensure the correct use, before installing and first using the appliance, read this user manual carefully, including its hints and warnings. To avoid unnecessary mistakes and accidents, it is important to ensure that all people using the appliance are thoroughly familiar with its operation and safety features. Save these instructions and make sure that they remain with the appliance if it is moved or sold, so that everyone using it through its life will be properly informed on appliance use and safety.

General safety

•It is dangerous to alter the specifications or attempt to modify this product in any way.

•This appliance is not intended for use by persons (including children) with reduced physical, sensory or lack of experience and knowledge, unless they have been given supervision or instruction concerning use of the appliance by a person responsible for their safety.

•Make sure that small pets do not climb into the drum. To avoid this, please check into the drum before using.

•Any objects such as coins, safety pins, nails, screws, stones or any other hard, sharp material can cause extensive damage and must not be placed into the machine.

•In order to avoid danger of fires caused by excessive drying, do not use appliance to dry the following items: Cushions, quilts and the like (these items accumulate heat).

•Items such as foam rubber (latex foam), shower caps, waterproof textiles, rubber backed articles and clothes or pillows fitted with foam rubber pads should not be dried in the tumble dryer.

•Always unplug the appliance after use, clean and maintenance.

•Under no circumstances should you attempt to repair the machine yourself. Repairs carried out by inexperienced persons may cause injury or serious malfunctioning. Contact your local Service Centre. Always insist on genuine spare parts.

•Items that have been soiled with substances such as cooking oil acetone, petrol, kerosene, spot removers, turpentine, waxes and wax removers should be washed in hot water with an extra amount of detergent before being dried in the tumble dryer.

•Danger of explosion: Never tumble dry items that have been in contact with inflammable solvents (petrol, methylated spirits, dry cleaning fluid and the like). As these substance are volatile, they could cause an explosion. Only tumble dry items washed with water.

•Risk of fire: items that have been spotted or soaked with vegetable or cooking oil constitute a fire hazard and should not be placed in the tumble dryer.

•If you have washed your laundry with stain remover you must execute an extra rinse cycle before loading your tumble dryer.

4 Important safety information

•Please make sure that no gas lighters or matches have accidentally been left in pockets of garments to be loaded into appliance

WARNING!

Never stop a tumble dry before the end of the drying cycle unless all items are quickly removed and spread out so that the heat is dissipated. Risk of fire!

•Risk of electric shock! Do not spray down the appliance with jets of water.

•The final part of a tumble dryer cycle occurs without heat (cool down cycle) to ensure that the items are left at a temperature that ensures that items will not be damaged.

•Ensure you have adequate ventilation in the installation room to avoid the back flow of gases into the room from appliances burning other fuels, including open fires.

Installation

•This appliance is heavy. Care should be taken when moving it.

•When unpacking the appliance, check that it is not damaged. If in doubt, do not use it and contact the Service Centre.

•All packing and transit bolts must be removed before use. Serious damage can occur to the product and to property if this is not adhered to. See relevant section in the user manual.

•Any electrical work required to install this appliance should be carried out by a qualified electrician or competent person.

•Care must be taken to ensure that the appliance does not stand on the electrical supply cable.

•If the machine is situated on a carpeted floor, please adjust the feet in order to allow air to circulate freely.

•After having installed the appliance, check that it is not pressing or standing on its electrical supply cable or/and inlet hose.

•If the tumble dryer is placed on top of a washing machine, it is compulsory to use the stacking kit (optional accessory).

Use

•This appliance is designed for domestic use. It must not be used for purposes other than those for which it was designed.

•Only wash fabrics which are designed to be machine dried. Follow the instructions on each garment label.

•Do not dry unwashed items in the tumble dryer.

•Do not overload the appliance. See the relevant section in the user manual.

•Clothes which are dripping wet should not be placed in the dryer.

•Garments which have been in contact with volatile petroleum products should not be machine dried. If volatile cleaning fluids are used, care should be taken to ensure that the fluid is removed from the garment before placing in the machine.

•Never pull the power supply cable to remove the plug from the socket; always take hold of the plug itself.

•Never use the tumble dryer if the power supply cable, the control panel, the working surface or the base are damaged so that the inside of the tumble dryer is accessible.

•Fabric softeners, or similar products should be used as specified by the fabric softener instructions.

Product description	5

•Caution - hot surface : Do not touch the door light cover surface when the light is switched on.1)

• Hot surface: Do not touch the back of the appliance while it is operating!

Child safety

•This machine is not intended for use by young children or infirm persons without supervision.

•Children should be supervised to ensure that they do not play with the appliance.

•The packaging components (e.g. plastic film, polystyrene) can be dangerous to children - danger of suffocation! Keep them out of children’s reach.

•Keep all detergents in a safe place out of children’s reach.

•Make sure that children or pets do not climb into the drum.

Product description

1

4

5

3

7

8

6

1Control panel

2Door

3Fluff filter

4Lamp for inside light

5Rating plate

6Adjustable feet

7Sideways vent outlets / back vent outlet

1) Only dryers equipped with internal drum light.

6 Control panel

8 Ring nut

Control panel

5

4

1

2

3

1Programme knob and OFF switch

2Function buttons

3START PAUSE button

4DELAY START button

5Function status led

Before first use

In order to remove any residues which may have been produced during production, wipe the dryer drum with a damp cloth or carry out a brief drying cycle (ca. 30 min.) with damp cloths in the machine.

Sorting and preparing laundry

Sorting laundry

•Sort by fabric type:

–Cotton/linen for programmes in COTTONS programme group.

–Mixtures and SYNTHETICS for programmes in SYNTHETICS programme group.

Sorting and preparing laundry	7

• Sorting by care label. The care labels mean:

	Drying in the tumble	Dry at normal tem-	Dry at reduced tem-	Drying in the tumble
	dryer possible in prin-		perature (press DELI-
		perature		dryer not possible
	ciple		CATE button!)

Do not place in the appliance any wet laundry which is not specified on the care label as being suitable for tumble-drying.

This appliance can be used for all wet laundry items which are labelled as suitable for tumble-drying.

•Do not dry new, coloured textiles together with light-coloured laundry items. Textile colours may bleed.

•Do not dry cotton jersey and knitwear with the EXTRA programme. Items may shrink!

•Wool can be dried only by special programme WOOL CARE !

Preparing laundry

•To avoid laundry becoming tangled: close zips, button up duvet covers and tie loose ties or ribbons (e.g. of aprons).

•Empty pockets. Remove metal items (paper clips, safety pins, etc).

•Turn items with double-layered fabrics inside out (e.g. with cotton-lined anoraks, the cotton layer should be outermost). These fabrics will then dry better.

Laundry weights

Type of laundry	Weight
Bathrobe	1200 g
Napkin	100 g
Quilt cover	700 g
Sheet	500 g
Pillow case	200 g
Tablecloth	250 g
Towelling towel	200 g
Tea cloth	100 g
Night dress	200 g
Ladies' briefs	100 g
Man's work shirt	600 g
Man's work shirt	200 g
Man's pyjamas	500 g
Blouse	100 g
Men's underpants	100 g

8 Programme overview

Programme overview

	Programmes	load (weight when dry)
		max.
	COTTONS	7 kg
	EXTRA DRY
	COTTONS
	CUPBOARD	7 kg
	DRY1)
	COTTONS	7 kg
	IRON DRY 1)
	SYNTHET-
	ICS EXTRA	3 kg
	DRY
	SYNTHET-
	ICS CUP-	3 kg
	BOARD DRY
	1)
	SYNTHET-
	ICS IRON	3 kg
	DRY
	30 MIN	1 kg
	FRESCHEN	1 kg
	UP
	BED LINEN	3 kg
	JEANS	7 kg

	Additional functions/
		options
	DELICATE	SENSITIVE	ANTICREASELONG	BUZZER	STARTDELAY	Application/properties
	•	•	•	•	•	Thorough drying of thick or multilayered fab-
						rics, e.g. terry towelling items, bathrobes.
	•	•	•	•	•	Thorough drying of fabrics of even thicknesses,
						e.g. terry towelling items, knitwear, towels.
	•	•	•	•	•	For thin fabrics which are also to be ironed, e.g.
						knitwear, cotton shirts.
	•	•	•	•	•	Thorough drying of thick or multi-layered fab-
						rics, e.g. pullovers, bedding, table linen.
						For thin fabrics which are not ironed, e.g. easy
	•	•	•	•	•	care shirts, table linen, baby clothes, socks, lin-
						gerie with bones or wires.
	•	•	•	•	•	For thin fabrics which are also to be ironed, e.g.
						knitwear, cotton shirts.
	•	-	•	•	•	For further drying of individual items of laun-
						dry or for small volumes of less than 1 kg.
	•	-	•	•	•	For refreshing or gently cleaning textiles with
						commercially available dry cleaning products.
	•	-	•	•	•	Bedlinen (single and double sheet, pillowcase,
						bedspread, duvet cover).
						For leisure clothing, such as jeans, sweat-shirts,
	•	•	•	•	•	etc., of different material thicknesses (e.g. at
						the neck, cuffs and seams).

Care mark

2)

2)

2)

Daily use	9

		dry)	Additional functions/
				options
	Programmes	(weightloadmax.when	DELICATE				STARTDELAY
				SENSITIVE	ANTICREASELONG	BUZZER		Application/properties
	SPORTS	2 kg	A3)	-	•	•	•	For sportswear, thin fabrics, polyester, which
	LIGHT							are not ironed.

								Special programme with anti-crease mecha-
								nism for easy care textiles such shirts and blou-
		1 kg						ses; for minimum ironing effort. The result de-
								pends on the type and quality of textiles. (The
		(or 5	A3)
	EASY IRON			-	•	•	•	loading volume corresponds to approx. 5 to 7
		shirt
								shirts.) Recommendation: Place textiles in the
		s)
								dryer straight after spinning. Once dried, im-
								mediately remove textiles and place on clothes
								hanger.
								WOOL CARE is special programme for briefly
	WOOL							treating woollens with warm air after they
		1 kg	•	-	-	•	•	have been dried naturally, worn or stored for
	CARE
								long periods. Wool fibres are aligned and the
								wool becomes soft and snugly.

1)In accordance with IEC61121

2)select DELICATE option

3)Automatic

Care mark

Daily use

Switching machine on / switching light on

Turn the programme selector to any programme. The machine has been switched on.