Are the heated dryers worth it?

[spoonfuladay]

I was wondering if they are worth it?

The washing is piling up.

Yes!

Was it a lot of heavy items? Did you have a cover?

I use one and like it. The game changer last year was buying a small dehumidifier and putting it under the cover. Got rid of so much moisture!

https://www.lakeland.co.uk/53211/dry-soon-drying-pod

I biught this lasy year , I can dry things on the hangers and avoid a lot of ironing . It sits by an open window so no condensation

I don't know if it would be any good for sheets or towels but I have a small heated rail (Aldi bargain) rails above the stairwell to hang things and a tumble dryer . Last year I managed to wash things overnight and DH hung them out (He WFH) whrn we knew it would be dry

Had one. Great but too much faff and took up too much space had to get rid for this reason

Mines on constantly during winter months.
I've had a Lakeland one for about 10 years, would replace in an instant when it conks.

I've got a spare room so leave window open in there - never had a problem with damp.

I'm weighting up a heated airer or dehumidifier.... undecided abd not much space to put it

If you've got a spare room to put it in then yes they're quite good but do take quite a long time to dry things. We used to have one and it was always in the bloody way, got fed up of it as it didn't dry things fast enough so by the time one load dry you needed to fill it up again. Was literally a permanent feature in the house all winter and they are huge.

Now I just have a normal airer in front of the radiator, wrap a bed sheet around the radiator and airer and put heating on for a bit, say for an hour. The sheet keeps the heat in really well and it continues to dry once heating is off again. This time of year I have the other radiators turned off so we aren't heating the whole house so I can't imagine doing this cost very much.

Yes have a Lakeland one -the mid sized one. Also have a small dehumidifier that I run simultaneously. I put it on about 9pm and a full load is dry first thing next morning.

Much cheaper to use a dryer if you are using both :/

@spoonfuladay yes I had a cover.

Nothing particularly heavy, but there are 5 of us so I was usually using every available bar.

Yes. I can’t live without mine. Been a life saver when I’ve forgotten to wash school uniform and I need to dry it overnight.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong but mine doesn't seem to dry any quicker than normal airer so I never bother turning it on!?

We've got one and I love it. I wanted to stop tumble drying as I was sick of clothes shrinking. I put on a load after tea, hang it out with the cover on overnight and then it's dry by morning. Also keeps the landing really toasty, the dogs lie next to it! I still use the dryer for towels/bedding but for clothing, the DrySoon is a wonder.

We have one. It's great! Can get king size bedding washed, dried and back on in a day! We never use the tumble drier anymore.

We have one and a dehumidifier. Yes, we do run both, but that is because the house needs the dehumidifier anyway.

Heated dryer is 10p per hour-so £1 for the overnight plus 1p per hour for the mini dehumidifier =10p. So £1.10 in all.

I have got a tumble dryer (condensing) as well in the utility room but that's about £1.75 to run for the equivalent.
It's very noisy (the dryer) and makes the downstairs of the house feel humid; so much prefer the dryer /mini dehumidifier combo.

I've got a cover but find it a faff to put it on. I cover mine with a couple of sheets and that does the same job.

I was always skeptical about spending the money, but was given one secondhand, and I use it almost daily. I’ve never had a tumble dryer and always had laundry all over the house in the winter and now I can get things dry so much quicker.

I struggle to hang the things up without being a contortionist

It can take days to dry things. I have the proper cover too.

I've got the big Lakeland one and people are wrong when they say it dries stuff in a few hours. It maybe dries the top shelf stuff in 24 hours, the very bottom shelf when it's full will still be damp, only the bits touching the heat will be dry. So you'll get tops which are dry on the waist but th sleeves are still damp.

If you have something you want drying for the next day then it's great if there's nothing else on it at the same time because you and spread it out over multiple bars.

Had one and it did work but makes the room damp.

Swapped for a dehumidifier in a small closed room. Total game changer. If you have a small room or cupboard that you can fit a regular airer plus dehumidifier in then it's so much better than a heated airer which is putting the moisture back into your home.

We got a heat pump dryer last year. Game changer . When bills were at their highest it cos 60p to dry a full load, it's really economical and very safe. Dehumidifier was working out slightly more expensive plus the faff of hanging it all out and having washing everywhere.

My Lakeland heated airer was fab but finally broke down last year after about 8 years of faithful service. We ordered a replacement one straightaway and treated ourselves to a top of the range one with a timer but omg it wasn't nearly as good as my old one. It just wouldn't fully dry anything and I finally had enough when four pairs of jeans were still damp/wet after 15 hours. It was also using a lot more electricity per hour than the previous one and more than the predicted rate declared so we bought a vented tumble dryer. We got one with a huge drum and it can dry 2 to 3 loads all together in less than 90 minutes so overall it is costing us less in electricity as I only need to use it two to three times a week.
I was using the heated airer at least five nights a week but now I only need to run dryer twice a week or three times in a heavy washing week and it is definitely costing us less - I think a big drum helps to dry it all more effectively?

Bought a Lakeland one, thought it was rubbish, great for socks rubbish for anything with a waistband. Now have a dehumidifier and an Ikea clothes horse. I can dry a full load of washing overnight.

Sorry to jump on, but could anyone recommend the dehumidifier they've bought? With a laundry mode?

I do have a Lakeland Dry:Soon and I've absolutely loved it, it does school uniform and work shirts etc v well, agree that heavier things are slower to dry.

I've moved at it will be in a conservatory which already seems quite damp so I thought I might need a dehumidifier from time to time but don't know where to start- all seem so expensive!