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 😂

I just call it the horse . If it was over the bath , I'd probably call it the rack/bath rack .

I call a free standing one a clothes horse, one over the bath is an airer and one you lower from the kitchen ceiling via a pulley is a maiden. I've got a telescopic clothes horse (Leifheit) and a whirly outside (Brabantia). Used to have an over the bath airer which I think was from Asda. Have always wanted a maiden and a massive kitchen for it to go in, sigh.

This over bath airer from Amazon looks good

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We got several clothes horses.
I'd love a winter or hedge maid but DH would think I had gone crackers if I started to call it that

Yes same here.

Clothes horse or clothes airer.

My ds mentioned clothes horse to a friend recently and they didn’t know what he was referring to. Made me wonder if it were a regional or generational term.

I call it a clothes airer
DM calls it a horse

MIL calls it a maiden and so does DH. I hate that term, I find it creepy, like a small woman is standing there with damp clothes hanging off her.

Airer. I have a horse and she would be useless to hang clothes on.

I think the bath one should be called a bath horse because it looks and sounds a bit like bath house and I like a pun.

I have a freestanding one which I used to call a horse cause that’s what my Mum called hers. (We’re in Sussex if relevant). But I’ve noticed I’ve starting calling mine an airer over the past few years; not sure why.

Yeah that’s what I mean - in the winter, the “dyke” (wall) has to be indoors.

No, I call it an airer. I think of a clothes horse as a big wooden one but I don't know why.

I’ve got a folding one that lives in a spare room.

As a child we had a wooden clothes horse that in wet winter weather would often be put in front of the coal fire, laden with steaming terry nappies. I am pretty ancient, so this was before we had central heating or an automatic washing machine.

We also had one of those long pulley-operated airers in the breakfast room - I forget what they’re called. My budgies liked sitting on them when they were let out.

My friend calls it an airing horse. Never heard of that before!

Clothes horse here. I used to have a flat that had what I called a pulley (?) installed in the bathroom so you could hang things over the bath - that was really handy. (It was there when I bought it.)

This might be the year we buy the Lakeland heated airer and give the tumbler a break.

I call it an airer

To me a clothes horse is a free standing wooden type airer

Maiden here in Lancashire, but that may have been just my mum's name for it (she had lots of those 😂)
Never over the bath though? Are they hand washed and dripping?

We’ve got the Lakeland heated airer (life changing by the way) I wish I had it when my DC’s were small and in washable nappies. (Not a lifestyle choice, I had my babies 39 and 36 years ago and I couldn’t afford disposable nappies!)
We call it the airer, I love these sort of posts!! 😁

My DH’s family call it a maiden and they’re from Lancashire.
I call it a clothes horse (Yorkshire)

I'm east Lancs and it was a maiden in our house growing up. A clothes horse was a model. It's nothing now as I've never had one.

If it's wooden (pull up concertina style) i'd say clothes horse.

The exact same thing in plastic would be an airer 🤪

A clothes horse is for for drying washing. The thing for once worn clothes is a chair 😉

Its a pulley.

Londoner here and it's a clothes horse to me. It's an airer to my North West England husband

It is, isn't it! Maybe I'll try to reinstate it. DD is only 6 so probably still malleable.. And once two of us are using that term it'll have to stick 😈

I’d call a wooden antique type which takes dry clothes or towels in your room a clothes horse, and one that dries clothes, an airer.

Clothes horse (live from the Black Country Museum.)