Daewoo Heated Clothes Airer, Winged, Foldable, Portable, 15KG Maximum Weight, Long Cable Length, Power Indicator, Low Running Cost, Essential Drying Rack, Indoor Drying

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If you have a 220W winged heated clothes dryer, such as the Robert Dyas heated clothes airer, it should cost less than 50p to dry a load of laundry in eight hours.

The cover of this airer (which must be used) looks a bit intimidating but is actually very simple to fold around your hanging items. After this, the machine is switched on and the fan heater comes on, circulating hot air around your encased laundry. Because of this, this airer emits a low humming noise, which is something the majority of heated airers with hot rails don’t.Value-for-money: The best heated clothes airers vary hugely in price, so during testing we made sure to consider how much the consumer is being asked to pay, for how well each airer dried our clothes. We also made note of whether we thought you could get a better experience for a more affordable price – or, if you have to pay more for a better drying experience. It is also worth calculating how much it costs to run a dehumidifier given how much dehumidifiers can help to dry clothes indoors. Which is the cheapest to run, a tumble dryer or a heated airer? Heated clothes dryers will always show how much power they use in watts or kilowatts per hour. However, since most heated airers take 8 to 12 hours to fully dry a load of washing you will need to take this into account.

Looking ahead over the next few months, we're bound to see a lot of one thing: rain. The good ol' British weather never fails us, particularly during the colder seasons, which can make getting your washing dry a bit of a tough job.

Do heated clothes airers cause condensation?

The first thing we noticed when testing this airer is just how much space there is for your washing to dry on. Because this Lakeland model has multiple (30) heated bars, there’s enough space to stash your smaller items and larger pieces like dresses and trousers, too. There’s also plenty of room to lay these bigger items out flat too, which only helps them to dry faster. We found there wasn’t a lot of difference between the heated airers when it came to their energy consumption, with the models we tested using between 0.09 kilowatt hours (kWh) and 0.91 kWh – that’s between two and 23 pence of electricity an hour.