Does anyone have a heated clothes airer

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I am looking at a heated clothes airer. For drying clothes inside in the winter without using a tumble dryer. I hate having laundry hanging on clothes rails for a few days at a time waiting for them to dry. I would love to dry clothes more quickly. If I am at home and if it's dry out, the clothes go out on the line but it's not often I get my time aligned with good weather.

I am looking at a heated clothes airer. Are they good? I don't want anything too big.

I use it! I still dislike it though and don’t feel any love for it at all.

Another Lakeland fan here. Haven’t used a tumble dryer for donkeys years and there’s no way the heated airer is as expensive- no way. Pop it on, throw a sheet over it and it’s fab. I have mine on in my home office and don’t need any other heating. Don’t need a dehumidifier either, I don’t know why you would?

Thanks for all of the replies. The autocorrects are hilarious. I think I will give a heated airer a miss. I think I will just use the clothes rail and throw a sheet on top of it and stick a dehumidifier in under it and see how that works for drying clothes.

My Lakeland dryer is on now with the cover and a small dehumidifier inside. Works great! And very little condensation but I open my windows everyday anyway.

@PrinceHaz we have the same one and thought the same last year.
we also can’t find the cover but wondered if the Lakeland one would fit. I’m going to order it as it’s free delivery and free returns and I’ll keep my fingers crossed!

I have never tried a heated airer but absolutely love my dehumidifier. It easily dries a full hanging Sheila of washing overnight and really does not use a lot of electricity. I bought the meaco ABC 12l one and its brilliant.

Yes, I love ours.

We have the Lakeland one and with the cover dries things pretty much overnight, keeps the room that it is in toasty too. I have no idea how we did without it tbh!

Best. Post. Ever. #fumbletits

I’ve got the Lakeland one that looks like a space ship. It’s fine for thin stuff like activewear, shirts and T-shirts. Hopeless for thicker stuff like denim or sweatshirts. You can’t get a full load in or it takes forever to dry. I tend to use a tumble dryer for towels, pants and socks than the spaceship for thinner stuff and radiators for everything else. I kind of hate how long it takes to load and unload and going back checking the stuff to see if it’s dry. It’s a pain in the arse but the alternative is it all goes on radiators or gets cooked in the tumble dryer.

What's a hanging Sheila? Is it Australian washing jargon?

I love my 11 year old Lakeland one. A wet load goes on it most nights at 9pm and is dry by morning.

I genuinely think I’ve posted my love for it on more “are heated airers worth it?” threads than I have dishing out LTBs on those threads.

I have the one in your original post and it is far better than those with heated bars, which I found very inefficient. I got mine on Groupon for £40 but it was a few years ago. Things like towels take ages to dry whatever method you use (bar a tumble drier).

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I will add that I do not love my Lakeland job, overprivileged twat that I am. Yes, my washing gets dry but it lurks in the living room like the fucking monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey and I get sick of the sight of it in the winter.

Also, the expensive add on cover says 'dry soon' on it, making me regularly do this face after it's been on for twelve hours to get a load of washing dry.

Still, the alternative is musty washing on maidens next to radiators, so I really have no right to complain.

This. I think those who don't rate them don't use the cover. You can use a sheet but the fitted cover is even better.

For us it is a total game changer - the washing dries overnight. Wish I'd bought one years ago.