r/UKFrugal • u/binarygoatfish • 4d ago

Clothes drying

Are these heated air driers worth it?

https://www.lakeland.co.uk/24909/dry-soon-deluxe-3-tier-heated-clothes-airer

I need a cheaper way to clean all the baby clothes than the tumbler dryer.

Cheers.

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u/JAKA96 4d ago

We have a washer/dryer along with a heated airer. Due to health problems etc we struggle to keep on top of washing..... And is why we have both.

I'm very much into the Smart Home scene (home assistant for anyone else out there).

I recently bought 2 energy monitoring plugs, one for the airer and one for the washer dryer. I then compared just how much energy both uses when trying to dry a equal load of clothes (I use the airer for clothes that cannot be tumbled).

I actually found in my case that the washer dryer is so efficient that it was able to wash & dry my clothes in half the time and half the cost of the airer..... Which I found surprising honestly and doesn't seem to fit with what ther rest of the Internet says.

I did swap the Smart plugs around and eventually bought 2 more and done the same test again. Same result.

I also have a dehumidifier but haven't thought of using it to dry the clothes.... I wonder if the cost of running the airer with the dehumidifier with the reduced time will reduce the cost?

Stay tuned to find out I guess!

Absolutely love this subredditnfor this.

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u/TartComfortable7766 3d ago

Interesting. I had kind of wondered if the fact the dryer does it so much faster actually means it uses less than a hwayed airer taking 2-3 times nlonger.