Lakeland heated airer

[HellKitty]

GET IT DELIVERED IF YOU HAVE A NORMAL SIZED CAR!

It's massive. We have a big car and had to put two back seats down leaving me and two DCs walking around the shopping centre while DP took the bloody thing home.

They're selling like hot cakes at the moment too so I wouldn't wait too long.

Thanks dontbesilly I was worried about damp / condensation so will definitely keep windows open when using it.

I was thinking of getting one as I don't have a tumble dryer and have no outside space. How long do they take to dry a load?

I'm always raving about my Lakeland airer. I have mine on overnight and all the washing dries. I think it's about 6 pence an hour to run. I don't have a cover and don't use a sheet on it but I have a dehumidifier in the same room.

I hope that less than a month old doesn't count as resurrecting a zombie thread but I have a couple of questions.

We have a tumble drier but try not to use it too much - generally our practice has been to hang stuff on an airer for a day first, and then finish off what can be tumbled in the tumble drier for a short time, and what can't be tumbled goes into the airing cupboard to finish drying.

However, now we have had our heating system replaced with a super new energy efficient system and out airing cupboard no longer gets warm - so thinking of getting the lakeland airer.

2 questions - (1) it looks quite chunky - how flat and small can in fold to when not in use? - (2) it seems that each item of clothing would be hanging off a single warm bar - wouldn't that mean that each item of clothing has a warm dry stripe in the middle but is still damp at the edges? Do you have to keep moving things around a dozen times to get them dry all over?

I've been using mine for about two weeks now and love it.

1. when it's not in use you can fold it flat, but its still pretty tall (I got the three tier one). If I only have a few things to dry, one side of it can be folded in so it has a smaller footprint.
2. if you hang individual items off each bar, yes it takes longer to dry. But following the tips on mn, I lay the clothes flat on top of the shelves. On the three tier, that means six drying surfaces. I layer things up, eg three t-shirts flat on top of each other. I throw a double sheet over the top, and a load of washing dries overnight. I've even dried jeans that way.

I don't have a tumble dryer, so this has made a difference.

My electric price is 12p kwh and when I use my Lakeland heated airer it says it costs 4p an hour to run on my energy monitor.