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title: "Dryer cycles are getting longer"
description: "Miele dryer cycles are getting longer: a heat-pump dryer is slower than a vented one by design, and that is not a problem."
url: "https://mielemiami.support/symptoms/dryer-takes-too-long/"
date_modified: "2026-08-22"
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# Miele dryer cycles are getting longer

### The fastest diagnosis is the code

Both filters and the condenser block, in that order. If the machine is in a closed closet, open the door while it runs and see whether the cycle shortens — a ventless dryer takes its air from the room, and a South Florida laundry closet in August has very little to give it.

### Slow is normal. Slower is not.

A heat-pump dryer runs cooler and longer than a vented one by design, and that is why the clothes last. What matters is the trend: cycles that are noticeably longer than they were a year ago are telling you the air path has closed up, and that is filters and the condenser block rather than a failing machine.

### The test that costs nothing

Run a cycle with the laundry room door open. If it finishes measurably sooner, the machine is short of air where it stands, and that is an installation answer rather than a repair.

The filters and condenser

Restricted airflow, which the machine works around rather than reporting.

A closed closet with no ventilation. Not a repair, and worth knowing.

The moisture sensors

Reading late, so the cycle runs on.

The heat pump itself

Losing capacity. The last thing to consider, not the first.

It finishes, eventually

What it usually means

Cycles noticeably longer than a year ago

The machine warm to the touch on the outside

Clothes dry but only just

The fastest diagnosis is the code

Both filters and the condenser block, in that order. If the machine is in a closed closet, open the door while it runs and see whether the cycle shortens — a ventless dryer takes its air from the room, and a South Florida laundry closet in August has very little to give it.

Slow is normal. Slower is not.

A heat-pump dryer runs cooler and longer than a vented one by design, and that is why the clothes last. What matters is the trend: cycles that are noticeably longer than they were a year ago are telling you the air path has closed up, and that is filters and the condenser block rather than a failing machine.

The test that costs nothing

Run a cycle with the laundry room door open. If it finishes measurably sooner, the machine is short of air where it stands, and that is an installation answer rather than a repair.

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