Anyone got a gadgety thing that can answer this question for me - how much does it cost to run a tumble drier for an hour?

[Lauriefairycake]

trying to work out how long it will take to 'make back' the money I spent on an airer today - £25

as dh is complaining about 'wasting' money

I'm thinking it will only take me a month to make it bck roughly.......

Yes, you need a 'power monitor', costs about 15 quid from Maplin electronics. (actually just found it for a bit less from amazon here That will tell you how much power it uses, then your electricity bill will tell you the price per unit IYSWIM.
I am sure you will save it back really quickly as anything making heat with electricity uses loads, but I don't know the exact amount.
Alternatively you could look on the back of your drier and find the wattage, then figure it out from that (wattage x the running time = watt hours, 1000 watt hours = 1 kw which is 1 unit on your bill. So if it is 2000 watts running for 1 hour that is 2000 watt hours, or 2kw hours, equals 2 units on your bill).

A typical tumble dryer will use about 3kW every hour it's used. Check how much your electric units are. I think typical is around 10p per unit, so that will cost about 90p per hour. If those figures are right for your tumble drier and electricity costs the airer will repay itself fter about 28 hours of use of the tumble drier (so about a month at an hour a day).

what is an airer?

an airer is a fold up indoor washing line type thing, to hang wet cothes one