This is an amazing washer/dryer. 3.5 hours to wash and completely dry a full load of washing. Which if you were using desperate machines would be relatively the same. We are short on room so this saves so much space, and no forgetting to move the washing across. If you do a really large load it takes several more hours but before I go to bed or head out of the house for the day I will put a large load on and it's fine. Just if I'm home doing several loads, it works better with half load as recommended. I highly recommend this if you are short on space or forget to move wet washing across to the dryer.