Do you call it a clothes horse?

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So I need a new thing to put over the bath to dry my clothes. I have 2 questions:

1. Do you call it a clothes horse? Is this weird?
2. Can you recommend one? Last one was wilko and 26 years old at this point 😂

Do you mean a Sheila Maid? This is what I call my ceiling airer. The one who stands on his own hooves to dry things is indeed the clothes horse.

Have a look on Amazon for Sheila Maid.

Ikea have some nice compact ones

Not the point but horses don’t have cloven hooves. Cows, pigs and sheep do.

I know, I keep sheep 😂it just made me laugh

We always have had a clothes horse-until we recently got a heated one. We now have a cat warmer.

Yes, I do call it a clothes horse but if someone called it a maiden I would not be surprised. If I needed a new one I'd look in the supermarket or a B and M sort of shop.
Edit to say I do have a smaller one, which goes nicely over the bath. I think I call it the 'over the bath thing'. Lots of rails with umpteen things dripping into the bath if needs be, for those strange household things which get a wash every now and again and are best left to drip.

I don’t have this yet, but it’s on my wish list. I like that it extends so I can cover the full width of the bath, but then it retracts back in for storage: https://www.amazon.co.uk/BLACK-DECKER-Extendable-Adjustable-Rotation/dp/B0BM4KB6T5

It’s a rack to me, which is what my parents called it.

I was coming on to say this - grew up in Scotland and it was “the winterdyke” presumably because you hang the clothes indoors in winter (although it’s bloody all year round in Scotland now!).

We dry our clothes on the maiden but I think I'd be tempted to call the sort that hangs from the ceiling an airer (because it's in the air?). We lack horses here.

Long ago, the contraption that went up to the ceiling on a pulley was called the rack by my family. Clothes rack, I suppose. I still have a hankering for one.

@upinaballoon get one, live your life! Fulfil your dreams! 😂

@TokenGinger that is a beast - black and decker! a stallion amongst horses 😂

@TokenGinger I bought it, you should to. Fulfil your wildest desires and order from that Amazon wish list 😂

We don’t even have a bath in our tiny house!
I have a free standing clothes horse.
Thankful for the sunny weather so I can line dry.
Oh - just remembered bed is not remade after washing linen. Off I go!

Maiden

Ahhhh fair enough! My mother, having kept horses for years, genuinely thought donkeys had cloven feet. 🙈 🫏 🐮

I don't own one or want one but I would call it a 'clothes airer'.

I have this one. And the model name is Pegasus 😀https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leifheit-81702-Pegasus-Dryer-Drying/dp/B00359O126/ref=asc_df_B00359O126?mcid=8e06c955375b39959d38a3f85ca79552&th=1&psc=1&tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=697172083128&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12027130053571481052&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046002&hvtargid=pla-350188641045&psc=1&hvocijid=12027130053571481052-B00359O126-&hvexpln=0&gad_source=1

Sorry for the long link - don't know how to shorten it

I love my heated drying rack.

We have a maiden too

I call it an airer but my nanny always called it a clothes horse & I thought it was a Northern/Yorkshire thing.

I call it an airer but never ever in my 34 years of life have I seen an over the bath one!? That’s so clever

That one HAS got cloven hooves!

@Choccyp1g EXACTLY!!!