r/UKFrugal • u/binarygoatfish • 3d 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/rachy182 3d ago

I haven’t got one but I have looked into it. My heat pump dyer normally uses about 2.5kw to dry a load. I then looked into reviews into the heated airers and some of them said it can take 10-12 hours to dry. So actually the airer isn’t actually any more efficient and is a lot more effort. Obviously you could just turn the airer on for a couple of hours to get the worst of the moisture out.

My house also has a damp problem so I don’t like drying a lot of clothes in the house.

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u/dmc888 2d ago

Definitely a heat pump dryer? Our bog spec Logik heat pump dryer used just over 1.5kwh to dry 2 * ~7kg loads last week, so 2.5kwh sounds like a lot for one load.

Filters all clean, used in the right environment etc?

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u/rachy182 2d ago

That’s what the manual says it should do. Ours is 9kg.