Yesterday I purchased a heated airer

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And I have just set it up in my kitchen and hung some toddler clothes all over it.

Is this going to be a game changer of a purchase?

I don’t really get how it works. Surely only the bits of clothes that touch the warm bars will actually dry any quicker?! Can anyone enlighten me?

Mine doesn't take 15 hours to dry. 5 or 6 hours max.

It isn’t cost effective compared to a tumble drier if you have space for one - my TD costs 40p a load and it’s done in under an hour. They’re handy to have, but not necessarily cheaper. I also don’t find mine actually seems to dry much quicker than a normal airer either.

Hang on, someone said a regular airer doesn't take 15 hours to dry? Mine takes about 2 or 3 days to dry!!! My house is warm and windows are always open!? What am I doing wrong?

Love mine but it just broke . Can’t live without it though, now summer is ending, so I’ll be getting a new one soon.

My clothes dry overnight on a normal airer. If I want it to dry in less time I use a dehumidifier.
When I lived in a cold damp house my clothes took days to dry.

If it's the Drysoon one you can buy a cover for it that's about £30. Helps to dry stuff quicker.

Does anyone know of a cover for the airer with wings? Having had a look I could only see for the more upright one.

we used one on holiday. stuff that would dry here overnight waas still wet on an ordinary airer there. so used the heated airer. big things laid out across the airer, as they dried half dried smalls laid on top to make them dry quickly as well.

it is lovely to be back to my crappy flat where things dry fast without added heat. ancient stone cottage was not so great with the practicalities of life.

Those who love your heated airers, what one do you have?

I’m not sure what one we have. Inherited from a student who hated it, I’m not proud. I’m sure it was quoted at 17p an hour.
When DH loads it’s stuff takes days to dry. I put on 3 pairs of jeans, a heavy towel and a normal load last night and only the towel needs flipped and prob another hour. It’s all about how you load it. Things can be close but need spread out, nothing bunched up or wrinkled. Away from walls is more efficient as well and if you can get the cover ringer down to floor level that works better. I couldn’t live without it. I love putting on pants and bra straight of it in the winter.

I can put a full load on a normal airer after a 1200 spin, including towels and jeans and it's dry in less than 15 hours. I did look into buying one of these heated airers but worked out that it was cheaper to do a tumble dryer cycle than have something relatively cheap per hour but on for a long length of time.

it's great for thick items (bathmats? thaf otherwise take ages to dry
and socks (they just get thrown on)
and especially great if you have an airy unheated space. mine is in the drafty lean to.

Was actually searching up whether this was for me yesterday. We have a tumble dryer but lots of stuff still seems to end up on radiators. We don't have a big house, where do others put theirs?

@BanjoStarz do you like outside the UK? Even in the decline of this year's summer, on the relatively few damp days my washing is not drying quickly enough indoors to stop smelling musty.

crunchymum we've got the Lakeland three tier one. Think it was about £80 but definitely worth it.

I have the Lakeland 3-tier one. Bought it when DD was a baby (she's 8 now) and I had no tumble dryer. Loved it.

Now I have a tumble dryer and I tend to use that more (because I'm lazy), but I use the airer for the stuff that can't go/shouldn't go/won't fit in the tumble dryer, which it's brilliant for.

In winter I'll leave it on in a room with the window open a crack as my house is a bit of a sod for condensation.

But covering it is the vital part.

Bellini my house is small & I won't lie, it gets in the way a bit. But if you can find a place to leave it on overnight it's less of an issue. Also with the Lakeland one you don't have to open all the "wings" on both sides, so if you've not got a big load you can open just one half of the wings and make it half the depth.

For those of you talking costs - my heated airer costs 4p an hour to run.

And I would recommend buying from Lakeland.

Running costs aside, you can’t run a tumble dryer overnight. You can leave the airer on, though.

My dp uses a regular airer and shuts it in a room with a dehumidifier and it dries overnight - even jeans!

+1 for a dehumidifier (after having a heated airer previously).

I misread the thread title as "yesterday I punched a heated airer"

and thought wow it must be as bad as that time I bought a bobble off

My dryer has a delay button, so I can set it to come on at 6am, it does it’s thing during the economy 7 hours and it’s warm and ready to come out by the time I’m down.

My airer (the three tier Lakeland one) has a programmable switch but wouldn’t dry things in the time.

I have one. It's amazing in the winter. I also have a dehumidifier so it takes about 6 hours for everything to dry.

Iv had one for 3 years and love it.