Morning all - just noticed these are on special buy today. Anyone got one and do they work, if you put something on every bar how does all the material that isn't touching the heated bar dry? Sorry if that sounds daft...
I have a heated airer (not from aldi) and I find it very useful. I put small things on the bottom, underwear etc and thicker /bigger items higher up. If I want to dry things quicker, a sheet or duvet cover draped over the top to dry traps the heat. Very useful for drying shirts on hangers as the bars fold down. Cheaper than a tumble dryer in my opinion during bad weather & nicer than washing draped over the radiator everywhere.
seen reviews that say tumble dryers are better and quicker than these..chuck a dry bath towel in tumbler with damp washing and it dries even quicker...
It doesn't look as if it would dry much to me, except where the clothes touch the bars as mentioned.
Years ago you could buy a convector heater which laid flat and a concertina clothes airer fitted on top. You hung all your clothes on the airer and then a purpose made cloth tent fitted over the lot so most of the heat stayed inside. They were good and in the days before we had central heating they kept the room warm as well. I haven't seen them for years...perhaps the elf and dafty people decided they were dangerous or something.
A few weeks ago I was reading up about the Lakeland equivalent of this and the reviews said something similar to superbird, they work better if you put a duvet cover over them to keep heat in . The Lakeland model is larger and much more expensive though.
I don't particularly want a tumble drier and don't always want to put the central heating on to dry clothes, so in the end I bought a JML Dri Buddy from Argos. It basically has a rack for hangers over a convection unit and a large nylon bag which goes over the lot.
So far I've only used it for finishing off drying washing which has already been hung outside. I'm sure it has limitations , you couldn't dry a full load in it for example, anything touching doesn't dry well and I've yet to use it for anything straight out of the washer.
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I use my de-humidifier. Put the closes on a normal airer, switch on the de-humidifier and clothes bone dry next morning so I iron before going downstairs.
Thanks guys. I do now have a tumbler off someone but am trying to be green so have only used it twice since we've had it! The best thing we had was like the old fashioned thing that hung from the ceiling - but it was like four washing lines - it was in the bathroom above the radiator - you hung stuff on coat hangers on it and everything dried very quickly. We've since had our bathroom redone and it's now too posh to be on permanent display apparently - hahahaha! Well anyway have abandoned aldi airer idea and also read lakeland reviews which were mixed so have rooted out this thing I'd forgotten we had called a hangaway. It's like a caravan whirly washing line but without the lines - you hang the coat hangers from the arms. I'm putting it in the bathroom when required ie when washing and heating on!!
I have one of these at the apartment. At the house we rely on the garden line / tumblie.
Works well on fully wet stuff after rinsing and wringing when we come back from the pool / gym and is on offer at argos right now. Have also used it on jeans / shirts / jumpers when the washer drier went pop at the apartment, and although you can't get that much in there at once, it does a good job.
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Topic: Heated airers at ALDI
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