We dried a small cotton load on each airer, representing a week's worth of washing for a single person. Others resemble your typical clothes horse, often with foldable wings for extra drying space. They have a larger middle section, which is good for bigger items such as jeans and bedding, but overall have less drying space than tower models.

Some look like a tower, which typically affords more drying space for the room they take up, but they can be less accommodating of larger items such as dresses, towels and bedsheets. Heated clothes airers we tested typically took between four to six hours to dry a small (2.15kg) cotton load. Drying pods are essentially big hair dryers for clothes, using a fan and heating element to blow hot air through the clothes hanging inside a pod.We paid for every airer and drying pod we test, and don't accept free samples, so you can have complete confidence in our recommendations. Drying speed This is not intended to be a full statement of your rights under the Consumer Contracts Regulations. Full details of your rights are available from your Local Authority’s Trading Standards Office. How To Return A Product We selected the heated airers and drying pods from the most searched-for brands and popular UK retailers. We used a force gauge to determine how much force is needed to topple over each heated airer, as well as the flexibility of each airer's bars.

While heated airers use less electricity per hour than a tumble dryer, they take longer to dry the clothes. So, if you're drying big loads regularly, it will cost you more to run a heated airer annually than a tumble dryer.Drying your freshly washed clothes the natural way has never been easier thanks to this functional yet elegant three–tier overdoor airer from Kleeneze. Easy Storage– With generous amount of drying space so you can air a huge load of laundry at once. The airer easily folds away, so you can slide it into the small gaps between your counter and washing machine for simple storage.

Please note some larger products are delivered to kerb-side (the street outside your home), it is at the drivers discretion if they can deliver the item to another location on the property. Anything of a nature that for hygiene or associated health and safety - this includes the Outdoor Spas, Mattresses and Divan Sets But do heated airers use a lot of electricity? Our tests found they use significantly less of it to dry clothes when compared with drying pods. But the savings reduce dramatically for larger laundry loads, where you'd need to use the heated airer multiple times to dry a load that could fit in the tumble dryer in one go. A typical drying pod will do a cotton load in a couple of hours, and a tumble dryer will take anywhere from one to three hours to do a big load of laundry. It's faster than air-drying indoors, but a heated clothes airer is still the slowest of the three.We took each airer's capacity into account to also calculate the cost of drying a large cotton load. We also measured the total drying space and volume of the airer, so we can let you know which ones give you the most drying space without taking over an entire room in your home. Stylish– Perfect for first–time homeowners and families alike, it features a sleek bright white powder–coated finish with vibrant pink highlights. If you wish to return your item to Robert Dyas, you can do so by the following method: 1. Request a Collection via Robert Dyas Customer Services Compared to a tumble dryer, however, the story is a little more nuanced. If you have small amounts of washing that can fit on a heated airer in one go, then there are savings to be made when compared to condenser tumble dryers.

This collapsible, airer is made from heavy–duty steel and is designed to withstand the demands of a busy modern home. Features and Benefits If you already have a tumble dryer and are thinking of making a swap, it will also depend on what type of tumble dryer you already own. All heated airers are stable enough to hold a full load of washing, but some were more flexible and easy to topple than our top recommendations. Ease of use You might also be interested in our radiator airers. They hook over the top of the radiator and protrude outwards with a number of rails on them, so you can hang things in the direct heat of the radiator while still allowing air to pass through them. Hanging clothes and towels directly on the radiator doesn’t give you that air flow, so these hangers are a great idea. The best heated airers cost as little as 6p per hour to run, while the most costly came in at around 31p an hour. StabilityScottish Highlands & Islands postcodes: AB, FK, HS, IV, KA, KW, PA, PH, ZE, LL58-LL78, IM, TR, PO30-41 There are two main types of heated clothes airer: heated bar clothes airers and drying pods. Both work very differently. Natural Drying– Effortlessly dry off your clean clothes naturally outside or in your laundry room using this smart and practical aired from Kleeneze. The best heated airers and drying pods dried small loads in a comparable time to tumble dryers; the worst took over six hours. Energy use Can heated clothes airers save you money? Our testing found heated clothes airers will cost about half as much money to run as a drying pod.