Has anyone seen a UK equivalent of this American drying solution for clothes?

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Has anyone seen a UK equivalent of this kind of drying rack?

I will have a tall but deep and narrow cupboard to dry washing in when I move to my new house and this looks ideal.

However, it is also far from cheap and I also wonder if it works.

Does anyone have any thoughts/experience with such a device please? Many thanks.

Get a decent carpenter to build you one. Sliding door tracks, 2x1 and dowel look like all you'd need other than tools time and skill.

Hanging a load of damp washing in a cupboard doesn't sound like a terribly good idea, all that water has to go somewhere and I can see it becoming they musty and a haven for mould etc. The good thing about an old fashion collapsible airer is it folds down to a small size, and you can put it up anywhere, even near a participially open window to allow a bit of breeze to blow away the moisture.

I wondered about the air flow too. Surely it would just get all damp and smelly, especially the stuff further to the back?

I can't see how that works, particularly if they don't have any additional heating. Drying needs airflow, that cupboard would be a mould trap.

Thanks.

I think it would take days and days to dry. Surely a cupboard full of wet washing is a bad idea! It would be a haven for mould.

I agree about airflow.
I dry drip-dry stuff hanging from towel shelf mounted above the bath.
It's fine as long as I don't try to dry too much at once. Overloading it results in musty smelling clothes that take ages to dry

Laundry that you do every week? This has to have been conceived by someone who lives alone.

And yeah, unheated, unventilated cupboards in this country get damp enough without shoving a hamper full of wet laundry in there. You'd at least need some sort of active extraction system in there and a pretty aggressive one at that.

I think it would be better to use your tall thin cupboard to store a folding rack which can be brought out for use then tidied away afterwards

if only someone would invent an automatic drying machine, that would collect all the water for easy disposal. Possibly something similar sized to a washing machine so they could stand side-by-side, or on top of each other? An added bonus would be if it gently manipulated the clothes as they dried, so they don't get too creased. WE can only dream, I suppose.

A really efficient spin on the washing machine and a clothes airer, overnight works. The residue heat from the house dries the clothes, even better in winter if you have a wood burning stove.
Everything is dry in the morning and put away.

And things that will be stored on hangers can be put on plastic hangers straight from the machine and hung up in doorways to dry.

I'm quite evangelical about this airer, it's the bees knees for drying loads of wet stuff and folds up flat.

www.argos.co.uk/product/8500368

if only someone would invent an automatic drying machine, that would collect all the water for easy disposal. Possibly something similar sized to a washing machine so they could stand side-by-side, or on top of each other? An added bonus would be if it gently manipulated the clothes as they dried, so they don't get too creased. WE can only dream, I suppose.
or indeed if the machine could be combined with the washing machine itself so no additional space would be required.

I use a dehumidifier and a drying rack. If you got some racks and dowels put in your cupboard, you could put everything on hangers that will go on one , plus using a smalls peg for socks, pants etc, and a dehumidifier in there, you can dry loads really efficiently and not make anything musty or the house damp

ILookedintheWater Gosh, yes!

Whatever next, could you imagine a device that could cook food by radiated heat, and via emissions on the electro-magnetic spectrum, possibly with very small wave-lengths?

Ooh no, I don't like the look of that at all - the laundry is all bunched too close together, it'll never dry properly and the clothes will probably be TOUCHING.

www.lakeland.co.uk/21736/Dry%3ASoon-Standard-3-Tier-Heated-Tower-Airer

I love my heated airer.

Gone up from the £75 it cost me though!

We have timeshare in a lodge in Scotland where they have electric drying cupboards which we use for wet outdoor clothes, swimsuits and even drying the washing,

Like these: www.iconappliances.co.uk/laundry/drying-cabinets/

Wouldn't there be a risk of your clothes getting darked on in s closed cupboard? I wouldn't risk it.

Haha at getting darked on!

Just came on to recommend the Lakeland drysoon.

It's brilliant. I never use tumble dryer. House of 4 people so lots of washing.

love the responses...

America apparently has a thing about visible washing, so clothes have to be out of sight. That ad really is for the bone-headed, loads of nonsense about no need for ventilation. Or the item is for sale only to those that live in a desert.

nearly as bad as the magic German radiators they sell here.

To ILookedinthewater, I have a Miele tumble dryer washing machine but don't like to dry using electricity except in emergencies. It's very wasteful of energy.

I have too little spare time to faff around draping washing about or hanging out. The tumble dryer is worth every penny to me as is paying someone to do the ironing, my most hated chore.

Mouldy clothes, walls and carpet are rather wasteful, too.

Highly recommend the Lakeland heated airers. They are completely brilliant, especially for disorganised folk like me who realise at 9pm that the top they want to wear tomorrow is dirty. I love the fact that you can use it to dry things safely overnight, unlike a tumble dryer.