[Anonymouse]

Apparently tumble driers all over the UK are catching fire due to a design flaw - link.

However, the Mirror's got something wrong - there has been a recall. I know this for a fact...because we loaded 83 driers, all with recall stickers on them, onto a trailer this morning, sending them back to the Crewe site. From there, they'll presumably be sent back to the manufacturer.

Our job at the Heywood depot is to:

Load an empty trailer with scrapped appliances, waste (i.e. packaging) and returned items/failed deliveries for return to Crewe;

Unload a full trailer when it arrives from Crewe, load its contents onto the delivery vans...and then load any recalled items onto the trailer.

This last has been happening for a few weeks now, and we've been sending out shedloads of Hotpoint driers - presumably replacements. That's good for us, as they're lighter than washers and thus easier to handle. But it wasn't until I saw a note on one drier saying 'Do not use - fire risk!' that we found out why they were being recalled. So far, every drier we've received as recalled has been a Hotpoint, although apparently Whirlpool now own the Hotpoint, Indesit and Creda brands.

Actually it gets a bit confusing when we're loading stuff and we're looking for a Candy washer...only to discover the washer in question is a Hoover. They all seem to own each other.

So there's the skinny from someone in the know.