Heated clothes airers

[DeadBee]

Are any of them any good? I got one the other day and the stuff still isnt dry after nearly 24 hours.

The bits that touch the bars are drying. The rest is still damp. We don’t have a particularly damp house. Just wanted to take the pressure off the tumble drier a bit.

It’s an Aldi one and so far it’s crap.

The ones which have a cover which keeps the heat in around the clothes are a bit more effective. I find that just having a small dehumidifier directly under the rack works well, though.

I have the Lakeland one and don’t have that issue. Works extra well if you cover the whole thing with a sheet.

I have one from Dunelm. It’s a Minky one. Towels take around 2 days - you have to keep changing how they lie on the airer as the heat doesn’t circulate, it’s literally just the bars.

They do work quicker with a de-humidifier though.

I just stick it on and change things around. It won’t ever be as quick as a dryer but I don’t really mind that

I have a Lakeland one with its own cover. I don’t always use the cover, depends how quickly I need it. I then shut the door of the room and leave the window open and it dries pretty fast, in around 12 hours.

Did you spin the clothes twice before hanging out on rack?

We have an old Lakeland one and hanging stuff over the bars, using every available space, it will be 100% all dry after 24 hours at the most. the things on the top and middle layer will dry faster and we put very small and/or easily dried things on the bottom level. On that basis, it will often dry faster.

I hung up a large load yesterday at 4pm. At midnight DH took the stuff on the to layer off to replace it with his gym clothes. I took everything else off this morning at about 12 and it was all dry, except for two pairs of thick sleep shorts that were on the bottom layer - and they were lamost dry!

Oh yes, I do give the wash an extra spin at the end which makes a huge difference to how wet they are when they come out.

I tried a Lakeland heated clothes airer (but no cover) in an Airbnb and really wasn’t impressed so at home I have 3 regular clothes horses with a really good dehumidifier in between them all and most stuff is dry in 24 hours but it’s a small room and I think that helps also - I know this wasn’t your question but I expected the heater airer to be magic compared to my system at home and it really was a similar amount of time and I wasn’t going to replace all 3 of my racks when it wasn’t quicker

I have the lakeland one with a cover but it's nowhere near as good as using a dehumidifier which dries things really quickly. I got the Meaco one direct from their website.

I also have the lakeland one and it works great - but definitely better with either the cover or a sheet on top.

As you've already got the aldi one I'd suggest putting a bed sheet or duvet cover over it (you can even double up by washing some bedding and hanging the wet sheet over the airer that way you are drying your sheet and the stuff on the airer at the same time)

I have an aldi one with a cover and it’s great. I have a Woodies one also with a cover and split the load over the two so the clothes have a couple of bars touching them.

You have to not overload it and move stuff around regularly. It’s a bit of a faff I only use ours for stuff that can’t be tumbled.

I have a Lakeland one with a cover. I don't hang over the bars, but instead lie the clothes flat but layer 2 or 3 layers on top of each other. Lightest item on the bottom. Also as someone else said the top shelf dries much quicker than the bottom so I put socks/undies/light t shirts on the bottom, jeans/hoodies on the top. Mostly dry in 8 hours except the very heaviest things. If you want it to dry even quicker, check it after a few hours and if any of the lighter things are dry, take them out.

Ours is a Lakeland. They advertise that it only costs 9p an hour to run or something, but since it takes many hours to dry a wash, I reckon it's more expensive to run than our heat pump tumble dryer.

The only upsides are it works for clothes that you can't tumble, and it can be packed away.

I use my lakeland regularly and really like it, I put an odd double valance over and lay things flat, it has the added bonus of keeping my small room warm while wfh.

I have the Lakeland one with a cover. I pop a small dehumidifier under the cover a full 10 kg load is normally dry in about 4 to 6 hours. I don’t know what I’d do without the dryer and humidifier combo.

I have one and it's fine, lay clothing on the bars rather than drape, I hang shirts or hoodies on hangers along the sides, cover and can dry a load of washing in 6-7 hours. Draping clothes doesn't work and no need to turn

I’ve got the Lakeland one and use a large duvet cover draped over the top. We have both the heated Lakeland airer, and a normal clothes airer in the laundry drying room (spare bedroom, we’re not fancy!). The clothes on the heated airer dry much faster than the ones on the normal airer, and the Lakeland one is more crowded. Probably half the drying time if not less. The whole thing is speeded up now as well because we have a dehumidifier in there with them both. This also cuts loads of time off the dry.

Neither are as fast as a tumble dryer but we only really use ours for towels and sheets as DH thinks it shrinks his clothes and my kids have such massive feet I don’t want to risk the socks in there any more.

We have the lakeland one, and a cover. I find it works best with the cover but it's a bit of a faff so I don't always bother. It also helps not to put too much stuff on the airer at once!

I use a normal airer, but put a dehumidifier under it. Mine has a clothes drying function on it so i switch that function on. When I want a faster dry I switch on the central heating plus the dehumidifier and then shut the door to trap the heat in. That gives a faster dry.
The clothes I need or the ones that are more wet than others I place them nearer to the front so its closer to the dehumidifier
That has worked quite well so far.

Our lake land one is going strong after 12 years. Sometimes put a sheet over it. Synthetic light clothes dry over night. Heavier fabrics do take a bit longer. Couldn't live without it.

We have the Lakeland DrySoon with a cover, and it dries everything within about 6-7 hours. Through winter we also run a dehumidifier (a Meaco one) just to help with preventing dampness etc.

The trick is to move them around as others have said. Not tried a dehumidifier as others have said. But also to make sure they are as dry as possible before using the airer - so I hang my washing outside on the line unless it's rainy or foggy. Some of the wetness will evaporate even if you think it won't. It makes such a difference.

What size of dehumidifier do you all use? I have a small one I used last year but it didn’t seem to make a difference.

Strangely, I was just reading another thread about heated airers yesterday and majority of people recommended the lakeland one.

I actually bought the aldi one for MIL today! I too read that they work better with the cover on and near an open window or humidifier. I'm unsure how easy it would be for MIL to put the cover on/off so we'll see if it works or not.

@Notmollybutdolly What size of dehumidifier do you all use? I'd always go for something that covers a much larger area than you have. Otherwise I find them ineffective. Also look at the size of the water collection thing. If its tiny, you'll need to empty it more often which can be a PITA too.