Drying washing on an aga?

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I've just moved into a rental house with an Aga. I keep reading you can dry washing on it (to mitigate electric bill!). Does that assume you have a ceiling airer? Obviously you can hang one or two things on the front rail. Am I missing something?

Stick an airer in front of it. They kick out so much heat.

You can also good stuff and leave it to dry in the lid of the simmering plate (the boiling lid can scorch some materials so don't use it! I love sticking a clothes horse in front of mine at night.

fold not good

Under the lid? Doesn't it get dirty. I do have my folding airer so that's fine.

i have a stanley range, and use it all the time in the winter for laundry

fold it and sit it on two large metal cake racks that sit perfectly just above the hot plates, so no singed laundry!

On the lid!! Google Aga hob covers to see how some folk leave a piece of fabric there all the time!!! If you fold properly, the ironing is done too.

We have a ceiling airier (worth every penny) however the family before us used a cheap plastic covered clothes horse balanced on the Aga.

Sorry have fat fingers... on the lid!

Thanks you saved me from toasting the washing!

What fuel does your Aga use? If gas or oil, make absolutely sure you don't block the vents. On mine, 2 oven oil fired, that's the vents on the burner door and the vent between the hotplates that leads to the 'chimney'.
Never seen an electric Aga but presume it may have some form of vent(s) too.

If you dry anything on the hotplate lids, make sure it doesn't cover the handles. Otherwise the handles get so hot you could burn your fingers.

I dry clothes on a ceiling airer, if I've got a huge load, then will use a clothes horse as well, but as heat rises, the items on the ceiling airer dry faster than the ones on the clothes horse.

It's an electric Total Control 3 oven. I am a great fan of ceiling airers but can't drill holes here and there is a washing line elsewhere.