Whirlpool has announced they will recall thousands more washing machines which could risk causing fires in people's homes. Last December, the manufacturer announced that some washing machines from ...

(CNN)Home appliance maker Whirlpool has launched a recall of hundreds of thousands of tumble dryers from UK homes, years after it emerged they are at risk of catching fire. The move was mandated ...

Defective tumble dryers which have been fixed to supposedly ... They start when fluff from the cycle comes into contact with the heating element. Whirlpool began a huge drive to modify them ...

WHIRLPOOL has finally revealed the tumble dryer models that could be a fire ... dangerous because excess fluff can catch in the heating element and cause a fire. At fault Whirlpool machines ...

As Simon Gompertz reports, owners are being told they can still use their dryers - but must clean the filter every time and not leave unattended Whirlpool, the firm behind the faulty tumble dryers ...

which allows fluff to touch the heating element and has caused at least 750 fires. Whirlpool began a drive to modify affected dryers after the problem was discovered in 2015. However, dozens of pe ...

Whirlpool has said that in some rare cases, excess lint can come into contact with the heating element of these appliances and present the risk of fire. Consumers who own dryers in this category ...

In 2015, Whirlpool issued a safety warning after it found that several of its dryers had a fault that could cause them to catch fire. The risk was that lint could build up inside the dryer, fall onto ...

They were blamed for a spate of fires after a build up of fluff fell onto the machine's heating element. Whirlpool initially offered to modify affected dryers - a decision widely criticised by ...