Lakeland heated airer

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Are these any good / useful? Especially this time of year

We are a large family of 6. Currently have the utility room as a laundry room with washer, airers, tumble dryer and dehumidifier. So each morning I do a wash, put in on airers with dehumidifier on and shut door. 24 hours later things are slightly damp so I finish them off in the tumble dryer as I need the airers free for the next load. Also need to tumble dry from scratch all socks, pants, wipes etc as too fiddly and time consuming to hang up. Also tumble dry sheets from scratch as too big for airers. Also tend to to one other tumble dryer load from scratch eg pyjamas. also tumble dry uniform as need to get it all washed dried and our away between Fri night and sun night. 25 shirts a week plus trousers jumpers pe kit etc. basically heavy tumble dryer use. In summer we use approx 200 units of electricity per month, this time of year it's 450.

Basically despite having a dedicated laundry room I am drowning in washing.

I'm wondering if I had a heated airer with a cover on upstairs would that help me get on top of the washing? They are currently on offer. But I'm worried that it might make upstairs even more damp (old large damp house) and also make it more cluttered. It would have to go on the landing. How big are they in real life it's hard to gauge from the website? We currently have a dehumidifier running approx 8 hours a day upstairs to keep on top of the damp so don't know if the heated airer would make it worse?

I haven't put the central heating on and still use the heated airer. It warms up our freezing kitchen...a bit... plus the heated towel rail in the en suite.

My DCs have discovered that the heated throws i bought them from the Xmas MN threads heat up their whole bedrooms!

@friskybivalves
something like this, I then turn them over. No mildew smell.
I aim for most contact on the heated bars as possible.

You’re right that central heating does play a part in it but there’s no way my laundry load would dry ok the airer in 6 hours on central heating alone!
you do have to be quite careful how you place it all ok the airer. My dh has it down to a fine art, I do not

I don't have the central heating on yet, I've got the Drysoon zipped up in the cover and it dries a load overnight (jeans take a bit longer).

I wouldn’t bother with an old damp house, we got one and things needed turning over and round all the time and still took days to dry. We got a heat pump tumble dryer instead and it changed my life. I agree with pp, can’t clothes be worn more before being washed? The only things of mine that are washed every single time after wearing are socks and pants.

I'm wondering whether to get one.

We (dd especially) have a lot of clothes that cannot be tumbledried such as lycra sportswear/dancewear and t shirts with transfers on and currently I'm struggling to get them dry quickly. I have a non heated airer which I put up in the conservatory and at the moment I am plugging in a small electric heater but I suspect it is not very energy efficient.

Do I buy a humidifier for there or a heated airer?

And for those who say about wearing things more than once. Yes, I could. But ds absolutely stinks by the end of the day, (yes he uses deoderant and showers twice daily, he just sweats a lot especially when he is playing music under hot lights. Dd is a dancer and works out. Their clothes need washing daily. Dh wears trousers for 3-4 days but has to change shirts daily.

Do it, we love ours. The secret in damp conditions is to put a bedsheet in with the load and use it as a cover, tucking it under the bottom rail. This holds the heat in and dries everything underneath. Also hang each item across two rails rather than one so there's more space/air.

They're expensive for what they do, and are fiddly and just not great. In your situation, I think I'd go for a heat pump dryer instead. Or if you have the space, the heat pump dryer as well as your normal dryer since the loads take longer and it sounds like you do a lot of laundry.
BTW we have a new 25L Meaco Arete dehumidifier and I can't imagine it not getting the job done overnight! It sounds like your laundry room is quite cold, if your dehumidifier isn't keeping up? Or is it not on laundry mode and keeps switching off when it gets to around 50% humidity?

We have a big DrySoon and love it. No tumble dryer, so before we had it we had washing slowly drying in racks all over the house in winter.
Now we can do a load every day and it quickly dries - although as pp mentioned better not to overload it, and I also prefer to use the mesh insert in the lowest shelf to dry things flat on.
No damp issues, we just have the window slightly ajar in the spare room where it is
I highly recommend it for a busy family with lots of laundry.

I was wondering about these, but first I put a Tapo plug on my tumble dryer to see what it was costing. 31p a load, on average over 3 months (and I tumble dry joggers, hoodies, duvet covers, towels).

9 hours of the DrySoon is 80p, plus the same again for the dehumidifier, and I don't think 9 hours sounds enough for thick clothing or large loads.

If at all possible, get a heat pump tumble dryer.

Mine doesn't shrink clothes either, as we found out when dd cheerfully bought something a little too big and asked me to shrink it!

I never wash my jeans. Well, only after about 25 wears. My DD however...is incorrigible. Sigh.

Those saying there's no room on them, I lie stuff flat but will put 3 or 4 t shirts in a pile laid flat on the bars. Often with socks etc chucked on top. Still all dries in about 12 hours with the cover on. Love mine, I've only got a 2 shelf one but planning to get the larger version (although I can easily fit over half a load of washing on the one I've got). You absolutely need the cover though, sheets don't work anywhere near as well.

I got rid of
Mine

It looked like the one pictured and I hurt my back twisting to hang things up due to the 4 verticals

Also took about 2 days to dry a load. Even with the proper cover

In reply to the comment about heating, we do have heating but never have it on overnight which is when we usually use the dry soon. It dries a load in 8-9 hours. When we had a normal airer in the same place it took about 36 hours for a similar load.

So in conclusion, they can cope with between three and six items in one go if you want things properly dry.

This is why mine remains folded in the spare room. Radiator racks for drying all the way for me (my central heating is firmly on at least an hour or two per day at the moment, call me old fashioned).

No. I have just put a reasonable load on mine- 5 or T-shirts (most are adult sized), two pairs of school trousers, lots of socks and pants and my running kit. Cover on top. It’ll be done in six hours which uses about a third of the energy of the tumble.

Here's a full load 7kg including a pair of jeans and a jumper, school trousers, and a weird amount of socks on the bottom layer, all hung with a bit of common sense and room for air to circulate. Cover in and zipped up and it will be dry by tonight. The heating isn't on, Victorian house.

It's a heated airer not a magicians box.

I like mine very much. I don't have a radiator in the laundry room so this does the job - I do have to open the window a crack otherwise rivers run down it.

I agree with Seas164. It's not a magician's box (a bit like the Instant Pot - useful but not a magic gizmo).

Thanks for pic @Seas164 - at least you’ve got a decent amount of clothes on that.

Down to minus one degrees tonight, will your heating still stay off?

The heating is not off any more!

What is the maximum temperature this heated rail reaches and how can I check it’s at the correct temperature.? I know that it’s temperature is preset, but mine doesn’t ever seem to be very warm.

OneCraftyHelper · Today 16:16

What is the maximum temperature this heated rail reaches and how can I check it’s at the correct temperature.? I know that it’s temperature is preset, but mine doesn’t ever seem to be very warm