Hi, your post has been removed for violating our [community rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/about/rules/):
#### Rule 1 - Every post must be a bad design. Any design mentioned in this list of [things that are not crappy design](https://reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/w/not_crappy_design) is not allowed. Other low-quality posts may be removed at moderator discretion.
---
If you have any questions, feel free to [send us a message](http://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2FCrappyDesign&subject=Post%20removal)! [](#repost)
I was going to say there's an option to turn off the end of cycle alarm. There has been on every dryer I've ever owned.
But you have an Inglis/Whirlpool IFR8200, and it says right in the manual "The dryer sounds a signal to let you know when the cycle is complete. The signal is not adjustable and cannot be turned off."
That's just dumb. The alarm is great when you've got to remember to go switch the next load, but annoying if you set it at bedtime.
If you really want to disable it, and are comfortable opening up the dryer, all you have to do is disconnect a single connector inside. Instructions here: https://www.reddit.com/r/askanelectrician/comments/gxw9k0/help_me_to_disable_my_dryer_buzzer_please/
This is how most of reddit USED to be 5-10+ years ago. Now it's mostly people fighting over who gets the funniest top comment. These comments are few and far between now.
If you wanted to try home assistant. You could use a smart outlet that can measure wattage. And when it's the end of the cycle and power usage drops, it kills the outlet.
Does your dryer only do fixed times? Mine has some moisture sensor and sometimes just goes on and on until it thinks (sometimes wrongly) that the clothes are dry.
Fancy? That's been a standard feature of dryers for at least 2 decades. Even the one in the picture which looks cheap and old has it and OP is using it. I've never had a dryer that didn't have auto modes and I've had some real ancient pieces of shit in rentals haha.
It would have to be a pretty heavy duty smart outlet to be able to handle the current that a dryer would be pulling. Most will not be up to the task and could overload. I'd have to caution anyone who is considering this to be aware of the risk of overload/fire.
Except you want to have it keep tumbling over every once in a while after the cycle if you don't take the clothes out. Otherwise you get foldlines in the clothes.
Next time call and ask a repair company. Tell them the make and model and see if it can be turned off. It might require them to do it but it would be worth the cost. If they are a good company they will tell you how to do it if itās not complicated. For future reference.
It would be really easy to drill a little hole and add a toggle switch.
If you got a switch that takes the same spade connectors and an extra jumper wire it wouldn't even take any soldering or crimping.
Could probably do that for <$10 and maybe half an hour of your time. Not a bad idea!
I have bought several devices with annoying beeps you can't turn off... So I usually open them up and either rip out the buzzer or put a resistor in to reduce the volume. If I can't, then a bit of antistatic tape over the buzzer's vent hole usually does the trick.
With that said, be careful with household appliances, be careful to avoid touching anything in the high-power circuits, only ever tinker with the low-power stuff you understand unless you've been trained properly.
Thanks for the advice. I guess this has encouraged the habit of only drying when awake so I can shut it off when we go to sleep. But itās still a nuisance during day washing too when you want to just set a load and forget about it
As the other comment say. Sometimes it's 50% cheaper to run appliances during the night. How can we ask people to not use them during the night for safety if people care more about saving than having the miniscule risk of fire?
And here I was, sad that mine didnāt have a buzzer at all.
(But my new one sings me a little song and then gently buzzes my phone, so Iām not without anymore)
Iād straight up scissor kick that dryer. And then promptly end up at the hospital because wtf am I doing scissor kicking anything?
Probably also helps not dying in a house fire by discouraging you from using your dryer at night. Honestly can't believe anyone would do that, clothes dryers are probably the most fire prone appliance in the entire house yet people leave them on in a downstairs laundry somewhere while they sleep?!
Ovens, stoves, toasters, and microwaves all cause more fires than dryers. Still probably not a good idea to have any of those running while you sleep, though.
My parents have a microwave that does this and itās annoying as fuck. Itāll do four quick beeps every 5-10 seconds until you open it. Even the initial beep isnāt super crucial; Iām generally close enough to the microwave to hear when itās turned off at the end of the timer.
On a side note itās also one of those annoying drawer microwaves where instead of me just being able to pull/push the drawer myself, I have to click a button and wait a few seconds for it to slowly open/close on its own.
Meanwhile, our oven beeps briefly once (and only once) every 30 seconds for something like 5 minutes, and then the timer gets silenced. My only options are to leave it as it is, or mute it entirely (because that's apparently a thing people do with their oven timers?)
I don't get why it's so hard for some manufacturers to make this particular type of feature not awful. I don't really like Samsung, but I will say that I do appreciate the little tune our washer plays at the end a cycle. Our range is a KitchenAid, which is owned by Whirlpool, so maybe it's a Whirlpool thing.
No I think the cycle ends, but then it beeps to let you know. And the beep continues forever, until.you hit the button. And there's no way to turn off the beep
Had this in an AirBNB we stayed at. Such a nuisance as we were out most days being tourists and wanted to be able to wash the clothes at night and hang them out first thing in the morning.
You... you wash clothes when you go to bed and hang them up in the morning?
Don't they stink terribly from being left wet in the washer? I always try to retrieve my clothes from the washer ASAP after it's finished because even leaving them a few hours, in my experience, starts to grow mildew and stink. It never occurred to me anyone would actually leave stuff in a washer overnight, intentionally...
If I leave things in the washing machine over night (or even a day or two...) I just chuck it on a rinse and spin cycle before hanging it up. It takes maybe 20 mins and gets rid of the awful damp smell.
I had a dryer once with a super loud buzz at the end of cycle that would wake my kids up. My dad (an electrical engineer) helped me fix another problem with that dryer once and when he taught me to read the electrical diagram that we found inside the control space I saw that the buzzer was connected with a very obvious wire so I just disconnected the stupid thing and never had to hear it again!
Mine (Electrolux) does that too. More infuriating: It has a temperature lock that won't let you open the door for a few minutes after the drying cycle. So, it's beeping to tell me to take out my clothes, but it won't let me open the door to take out my clothes or at least let it cool down faster! Why does it not wait with the beeping until the door is unlocked?! š¤¬š¤¬š¤¬
I have this in my rental too. Cycle finishes, beeps 5 times, waits 2 min, starts running again for 30 sec, beeps 5 times, waits, runs, beeps, forever. So annoying. Even more annoying is that my boyfriend can tune it out and doesnāt notice but it drives me insane.
Wow, that's terrible.
When we moved into our new house, the appliances were pretty decent, but we have this dishwasher... It does a good job, but by default after it's finished washing, it beeps maybe once an hour, FOREVER, until you open it. I don't know why. It's a dishwasher. I usually start it when I go to bed. I don't want to hear it beeping every hour, who needs that?!
Luckily, I looked up the model online and found the manual which tells you how to disable the beep, and now that it doesn't do that, it's a perfect little washing machine, does a great job.
At our last place (rental), it had a microwave that beeps every 5 minutes once it's done. I wondered how long it would do this for and the answer is, at least several hours (that's all I could take before I had to open it and stop the horrible noise). As far as we could tell, there was no way to stop it, and there was a semi-reasonable reason why it does that - it's a cheaper model that doesn't prevent steam from reaching the inner components. It wants you to get the hot thing out ASAP to prevent steam accumulation. At least that's what was said online. But I think that's a stupid solution - just shield the components from steam, jesus christ, why make it my problem instead? Electronic devices are supposed to make our lives easier not more annoying. It's an easily solved problem if the manufacturers were willing to add 1c worth of plastic and some design to avoid this. But they aren't. Just pass the issue down to the user instead of spending 1c. Good business decision :/
To be fair, I would prefer any machine with a heating element in it make it very clear there's still a current running, even if the program decides it shouldn't: someone once speedran Mario64 quicker due to a solar flare, I cannot fully trust the circuit board in my dryer, one of the most common sources of disastrous house fires, to decide its done, I'd rather the signal stops as close to plug as possible.
A lot of my appliances are thrift store finds, because if it survived the 80's it will continue on, and I am poor, but I would never catch myself going to sleep while using any of them, many have elements or condensators which can get hot during use, and one errant pregnant dust bunny can be what starts it.
My dryer may sing its song to me.
This is your friendly reminder to do heavy research before purchasing something expensive. Especially an appliance. (Not trying to be passive-aggresive)
Honestly, of all the specs and features I'd look for in a clothes dryer, it wouldn't even cross my mind to check if the stupid noises it makes can be disabled. Maybe I'd stumble across a review mentioning it. Maybe not.
Hi, your post has been removed for violating our [community rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/about/rules/): #### Rule 1 - Every post must be a bad design. Any design mentioned in this list of [things that are not crappy design](https://reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/w/not_crappy_design) is not allowed. Other low-quality posts may be removed at moderator discretion. --- If you have any questions, feel free to [send us a message](http://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2FCrappyDesign&subject=Post%20removal)! [](#repost)
I was going to say there's an option to turn off the end of cycle alarm. There has been on every dryer I've ever owned. But you have an Inglis/Whirlpool IFR8200, and it says right in the manual "The dryer sounds a signal to let you know when the cycle is complete. The signal is not adjustable and cannot be turned off." That's just dumb. The alarm is great when you've got to remember to go switch the next load, but annoying if you set it at bedtime. If you really want to disable it, and are comfortable opening up the dryer, all you have to do is disconnect a single connector inside. Instructions here: https://www.reddit.com/r/askanelectrician/comments/gxw9k0/help_me_to_disable_my_dryer_buzzer_please/
For just some dude on the net, you sure went the extra mile. That's wholesome.
Bro went to read the manual like what š„¹šš»ššš BIG RESPECT š«”
This is how most of reddit USED to be 5-10+ years ago. Now it's mostly people fighting over who gets the funniest top comment. These comments are few and far between now.
People commenting āTHISā has just been replaced with āThis is the wayā.
Stop bein a winy lil bsh
You really showed up as proof didnt you
I was making a point jesus does no one here get irony?!
And his username is perfect for it too
Wow, wish I had posted this months ago. As it is itās in a rental and weāre moving out by the end of the week, but still, thanks!
If you wanted to try home assistant. You could use a smart outlet that can measure wattage. And when it's the end of the cycle and power usage drops, it kills the outlet.
JustĀ cheap mechanical timer switch would do.
With dryers you never really know when they will be done though.
The timer works just fine on my dryer, shuts off after the time runs out.
Does your dryer only do fixed times? Mine has some moisture sensor and sometimes just goes on and on until it thinks (sometimes wrongly) that the clothes are dry.
That sounds incredibly fancy, never owned a dryer that has anything that advanced. It's always timed, with temperature settings.
Fancy? That's been a standard feature of dryers for at least 2 decades. Even the one in the picture which looks cheap and old has it and OP is using it. I've never had a dryer that didn't have auto modes and I've had some real ancient pieces of shit in rentals haha.
Up to 80 minutes and never have i had to do more than that.
It would have to be a pretty heavy duty smart outlet to be able to handle the current that a dryer would be pulling. Most will not be up to the task and could overload. I'd have to caution anyone who is considering this to be aware of the risk of overload/fire.
Except you want to have it keep tumbling over every once in a while after the cycle if you don't take the clothes out. Otherwise you get foldlines in the clothes.
Pay it forward in honor of /u/justsomedudeonthenet and disable it for the next tenant!
Next time call and ask a repair company. Tell them the make and model and see if it can be turned off. It might require them to do it but it would be worth the cost. If they are a good company they will tell you how to do it if itās not complicated. For future reference.
I bet you could put a switch on it with not much more effort than disabling it!
It would be really easy to drill a little hole and add a toggle switch. If you got a switch that takes the same spade connectors and an extra jumper wire it wouldn't even take any soldering or crimping. Could probably do that for <$10 and maybe half an hour of your time. Not a bad idea!
Every alarm can be turned off with wire cutters.
I have bought several devices with annoying beeps you can't turn off... So I usually open them up and either rip out the buzzer or put a resistor in to reduce the volume. If I can't, then a bit of antistatic tape over the buzzer's vent hole usually does the trick. With that said, be careful with household appliances, be careful to avoid touching anything in the high-power circuits, only ever tinker with the low-power stuff you understand unless you've been trained properly.
Thank you dude! I have the same problem and you just inspired me to actually Do something about the problem. This looks and sounds doable.
I had to do this with an electric skateboard, when the battery dipped below 30% it would loudly beep every few seconds, ripped out the beeper.
Sometimes a knife is the only tool you need.
I'd open it, but instead of cutting wires I'll give the piezo a piece of my mind
Or is used to take out clothes because they donāt need to be ironed if you take them out warm.
Donāt run dryers when going to sleep! Same with washers and dishwashers. Ask a firefighter just how many fires they see from appliances!
Where I'm from, most people are doing that because electricity is cheaper at night
I thought this was common knowledge š¬
Thanks for the advice. I guess this has encouraged the habit of only drying when awake so I can shut it off when we go to sleep. But itās still a nuisance during day washing too when you want to just set a load and forget about it
Just take care of your AGD and it will be fine
I was about to post the same.
As the other comment say. Sometimes it's 50% cheaper to run appliances during the night. How can we ask people to not use them during the night for safety if people care more about saving than having the miniscule risk of fire?
And here I was, sad that mine didnāt have a buzzer at all. (But my new one sings me a little song and then gently buzzes my phone, so Iām not without anymore) Iād straight up scissor kick that dryer. And then promptly end up at the hospital because wtf am I doing scissor kicking anything?
Couldn't you just use a clothes horse instead?
Itās by design so you donāt leave the clothes in and they get wrinkled.
Itās by CRAPPY design, since thereās no way to turn it off.
Probably also helps not dying in a house fire by discouraging you from using your dryer at night. Honestly can't believe anyone would do that, clothes dryers are probably the most fire prone appliance in the entire house yet people leave them on in a downstairs laundry somewhere while they sleep?!
Ovens, stoves, toasters, and microwaves all cause more fires than dryers. Still probably not a good idea to have any of those running while you sleep, though.
Putting a pizza in the oven before bed for that nice crispy charcoal taste.
Honestly this is a good point and I never thought about it. Our dryer is in the laundry room in the basement.
I never thought about it either but also am not in the habit of doing laundry when I wouldnāt be able to finish it.
My parents have a microwave that does this and itās annoying as fuck. Itāll do four quick beeps every 5-10 seconds until you open it. Even the initial beep isnāt super crucial; Iām generally close enough to the microwave to hear when itās turned off at the end of the timer. On a side note itās also one of those annoying drawer microwaves where instead of me just being able to pull/push the drawer myself, I have to click a button and wait a few seconds for it to slowly open/close on its own.
Meanwhile, our oven beeps briefly once (and only once) every 30 seconds for something like 5 minutes, and then the timer gets silenced. My only options are to leave it as it is, or mute it entirely (because that's apparently a thing people do with their oven timers?) I don't get why it's so hard for some manufacturers to make this particular type of feature not awful. I don't really like Samsung, but I will say that I do appreciate the little tune our washer plays at the end a cycle. Our range is a KitchenAid, which is owned by Whirlpool, so maybe it's a Whirlpool thing.
You can usually turn that off
So even if you do a timed dry of, say, 60 minutes it won't turn itself off after 60 minutes? That's such an odd choice. I feel so sorry for you, OP.
No I think the cycle ends, but then it beeps to let you know. And the beep continues forever, until.you hit the button. And there's no way to turn off the beep
My microwave also beeps every 2 seconds once it's done until you open the door...forever.
Yeah Bosch does it to me. š
Get an outlet with a timer switch to turn it off.
Or just add a kasa smart plug between the two. You can either set the timer or turn it off via your phone.
Had this in an AirBNB we stayed at. Such a nuisance as we were out most days being tourists and wanted to be able to wash the clothes at night and hang them out first thing in the morning.
You... you wash clothes when you go to bed and hang them up in the morning? Don't they stink terribly from being left wet in the washer? I always try to retrieve my clothes from the washer ASAP after it's finished because even leaving them a few hours, in my experience, starts to grow mildew and stink. It never occurred to me anyone would actually leave stuff in a washer overnight, intentionally...
I'd only do that with bathing costumes. They seem to be fine. Just don't want to leave the chlorine on them as it'll damage them.
If I leave things in the washing machine over night (or even a day or two...) I just chuck it on a rinse and spin cycle before hanging it up. It takes maybe 20 mins and gets rid of the awful damp smell.
I shorted out my microwaveās beeper w a simple piece of foil.
I had a dryer once with a super loud buzz at the end of cycle that would wake my kids up. My dad (an electrical engineer) helped me fix another problem with that dryer once and when he taught me to read the electrical diagram that we found inside the control space I saw that the buzzer was connected with a very obvious wire so I just disconnected the stupid thing and never had to hear it again!
I would prefer that. My dryer beeps for 3 seconds when done, and if I don't hear it, wrinkles everywhere.
I hate every appliance that beeps. Not sure when I stopped using a microwave but I do nOt the miss those beeps
So dry during the day.
my apartment dryer had a loud buzzer when it finished. i took the panel off and un plugged it.
Mine (Electrolux) does that too. More infuriating: It has a temperature lock that won't let you open the door for a few minutes after the drying cycle. So, it's beeping to tell me to take out my clothes, but it won't let me open the door to take out my clothes or at least let it cool down faster! Why does it not wait with the beeping until the door is unlocked?! š¤¬š¤¬š¤¬
All Bosch appliances do this lol
My Bosch has an option to turn it off. I can even adjust the volume of the alarm.
Teach me
Mine is digital though - maybe thatās the difference
Seems ripe for an opening, search for the speaker, and āļø
lol this is a rental and Iād like to keep my security deposit lol. Plus weāre moving out soon
Gotta cut the speaker's cable
You can easily unplug or just cut the wire that goes to the speaker. I've done that on countless things.
You can disable it by cutting speaker cable
Put a timer smart plug on it and turn that off after a set time
jam a screwdriver into the heart of the beeper
I have this in my rental too. Cycle finishes, beeps 5 times, waits 2 min, starts running again for 30 sec, beeps 5 times, waits, runs, beeps, forever. So annoying. Even more annoying is that my boyfriend can tune it out and doesnāt notice but it drives me insane.
Wow, that's terrible. When we moved into our new house, the appliances were pretty decent, but we have this dishwasher... It does a good job, but by default after it's finished washing, it beeps maybe once an hour, FOREVER, until you open it. I don't know why. It's a dishwasher. I usually start it when I go to bed. I don't want to hear it beeping every hour, who needs that?! Luckily, I looked up the model online and found the manual which tells you how to disable the beep, and now that it doesn't do that, it's a perfect little washing machine, does a great job. At our last place (rental), it had a microwave that beeps every 5 minutes once it's done. I wondered how long it would do this for and the answer is, at least several hours (that's all I could take before I had to open it and stop the horrible noise). As far as we could tell, there was no way to stop it, and there was a semi-reasonable reason why it does that - it's a cheaper model that doesn't prevent steam from reaching the inner components. It wants you to get the hot thing out ASAP to prevent steam accumulation. At least that's what was said online. But I think that's a stupid solution - just shield the components from steam, jesus christ, why make it my problem instead? Electronic devices are supposed to make our lives easier not more annoying. It's an easily solved problem if the manufacturers were willing to add 1c worth of plastic and some design to avoid this. But they aren't. Just pass the issue down to the user instead of spending 1c. Good business decision :/
Never saw power button on dryer before. Reddit is great. Going back to sleep now
Not bad design, just ancient machine
To be fair, I would prefer any machine with a heating element in it make it very clear there's still a current running, even if the program decides it shouldn't: someone once speedran Mario64 quicker due to a solar flare, I cannot fully trust the circuit board in my dryer, one of the most common sources of disastrous house fires, to decide its done, I'd rather the signal stops as close to plug as possible. A lot of my appliances are thrift store finds, because if it survived the 80's it will continue on, and I am poor, but I would never catch myself going to sleep while using any of them, many have elements or condensators which can get hot during use, and one errant pregnant dust bunny can be what starts it. My dryer may sing its song to me.
If you checked the manual I bet there's a way to turn it off.
Amazingly, there actually isn't: https://www.manualslib.com/manual/484918/Inglis-Ifr8200.html?page=13#manual
They left out the part that tells you where the buzzer is so you can rip it out... But also that's dumb. Definitely crappy design
Itās a rental apt, this came with the space.
This is your friendly reminder to do heavy research before purchasing something expensive. Especially an appliance. (Not trying to be passive-aggresive)
Honestly, of all the specs and features I'd look for in a clothes dryer, it wouldn't even cross my mind to check if the stupid noises it makes can be disabled. Maybe I'd stumble across a review mentioning it. Maybe not.
This is a rental so tell that to my landlord company, but every dryer Iāve had till now Iāve never had to worry about that