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Can anyone recommend a clothes drying rack that lasts?
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Each one I get ends up bending out of shape and breaking. I've spent a good £30 on these but all the same.
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£30 sounds a bit cheap for a rack you want to last.
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I bought 3 different rolling clothing racks when we moved 4 years ago. Only 1 is still properly usable. Problem is that they are cheap (£15ish each) and if you check them closely are likely only good for a very limited weight. So stuff it with all my jackets, coats, shirts and boom! they bend and falls over.
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Emmia said:£30 sounds a bit cheap for a rack you want to last.
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For drying clothes we have this from IKEA - inherited from a previous flatmate, I reckon it's about 10 years old, and still going strong
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/jaell-drying-rack-in-outdoor-white-80242892/
We've also got one of their classic octopus smalls holders, when the pegs failed on that I replaced them with normal pegs on giant paperclips
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I've got two, £15 each at most, probably £10 and have had 15 years use out of the 1st and about 8 from the second. I've taped a few of the minor bars back in (hey this MSE). I only half load them at most as I find things don't dry if packed on too tight. One was from TESCO, the other from similar. If I used coat hangers to pack as much as I could on them I suspect both would fail straight away, but draping clothes over the bars I've had few problems.0
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Ours is from Wilko, but only used for drying things that don't/won't go in the tumble dryer (wool jumpers, some fleece type jackets) etc.,.
Only £14. https://www.wilko.com/wilko-deluxe-clothes-airer-14m/p/0107006
But we don't abuse our drying rack by overloading it.0 -
Never had any problems with my Minky airer - https://www.argos.co.uk/product/3896871?clickPR=plp:8:70
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