Tumble drier vs heated airer

pattypan4

I have the same mr singleton, it was recommended to me. Very efficient

coffeehound

I'm still getting sterling service from a £20 secondhand spin dryer and reckon it is the most effective and inexpensive way to remove as much water as possible from laundry before indoor drying.

Items dry overnight on unheated racks and, like a previous poster does, I open windows for 20 mins early morning before the rush hour starts while the air is clean and cool.

Rosie1980

I have never used a heated airer but I do have a dehumidifier and getting one with a laundry setting makes fast work of drying clothes. I would definitely recommend a dehumidifier. Decide on your budget and a quick look on Amazon will help you decide the best you can afford.

madlyn

Rosie1980 wrote: »

I have never used a heated airer but I do have a dehumidifier and getting one with a laundry setting makes fast work of drying clothes. I would definitely recommend a dehumidifier. Decide on your budget and a quick look on Amazon will help you decide the best you can afford.

I was all for buying a heated airer until reading your post, so I did as you suggested and if something for around £50 can help with drying clothes and sit on top of a chest of drawers then I am more than willing to give it a go.

madlyn

So now the cold Days and Nights are upon us and most of the country has not had many dry days for a fair while, I'm guessing tumble driers and heated airers are really starting to get some use.
A tumble dryer is still out of the question for me but still toying with the idea of a heated airer, I just cant make that final decision.

muddlemand

I would still recommend the Pro Breeze (or probably any other make of) oil-filled radiator, as in my earlier post #30. £100-ish, and I was lucky and got a discount too. What I've seen of their customer service has been great too.

My heating was down for ten days recently, and I bought a second one. I was honestly tempted to buy one for each room, and save on central heating! I seriously think, if one day I need to replace my boiler, I might do that instead!

I'd cost up using the immersion heater for the shower instead of letting the boiler do it, that's all. I already use the kettle instead of the hot tap for washing-up etc, it's more economical and (in my kitchen anyway) quicker.

Anyway I now have two of the oil-filled radiators and that gives me a spare for guests, or for now it's keeping the damp out of a back room that's exposed and gets very cold.

madlyn

I do have an oil filled radiator, nothing like what you have though, got it from Lidl for around £40.
Do you not use the heating in the room you dry clothes at all? just the oil filled rad?
I have a rad in my spare room but only have the heating on for an hour in the morning and then again in the evening, so the temp in the spare room does get rather low. I have nothing to loose in getting a timer plug and setting it to come on for a few hours in the day.

muddlemand

There's a (wall) radiator in the spare room where I dry laundry, but for ten days the heating was down so it was just the oil-filled radiator. In my own room, there is central heating but the radiator is buried behind piles of boxes(!) and the window is draughty, and that side of the house gets the north wind and not much sun, so even with the heating on full it can get down to 15C or worse - bloomin' freezing in other words - but even when the heating failed, the oil-filled rad did the job as I described, toasty warm really quickly.

It has a built-in timer and most of the time I keep in on setting 1 which is 1000 W, whereas setting 3 uses all 2500 W.
https://probreeze.com/products/heaters/2500w-oil-filled-radiator/

Well, I love it anyway. If I was looking at big money to repair the boiler or something like that, I really would think about doing without central heating altogether.

Mr_Singleton

I've said it before and I'll say it again. For those that are thinking of using heated whatever just remember.... the water in the clothes doesn't just disappear it goes somewhere.

tesuhoha

I have two dehumidifiers, one upstairs on the landing, one we use for the bathroom after anyone has had a shower. They both have intelligent laundry options and I have a hanging rail above the stairs. It works very well but sheets and towels need to be dried in the tumble drier as too voluminous. However, my tumble drier is a gas one and it seems to be a gentler heat and doesn't shrink the clothes.