BLACK+DECKER 63091 3-Tier Heated Clothes Airer with Cover & Wheels Aluminium, Cool Grey, 140cm x 73cm x 68cm

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The included accessories bundle covers garment-specific items that transform its capabilities, whether it’s the mesh shelves that are designed for smaller items such as socks and pants that can be laid flat, or the six-peg hanger to keep items in place. If you’ve got a lot of washing, you need a lot of hanging space and there aren’t many that can hold 20kg – that’s about the same as a five year-old child. Minky’s top-end dryer can hang 3kg from each of its six angled arms, plus another 2kg on the flat top, making it a champion weightlifter in the heated dryer world. The Full length zip means it is easy to open and leave in place when loading or unloading the airer with clothing. If you live in a small flat, you may find it far less practical than the Lakeland or Black + Decker dryers, since it’s wide and low and takes up an unnecessary amount of space when folded out.

Just the thing for drying your washing indoors without the expense and energy use of a tumble dryer, it has heated bars to speed up the drying process, and the shelves double up as hanging rails. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Every airer I’ve tested simply turns on and off, so it costs the same per hour to run whether you’ve got a item of clothing on every bar or not. Running at 1,000 Watts, it also uses more energy than some other airers featured here, but it makes up for it in efficiency (and it’s very useful in the event that you’ve run out of emergency shirts). If you’re after a savvy laundry drying solution that can be cheaper to run than a tumble dryer (or putting the heating on), and speedier than air drying, look no further than a heated clothes airer.We could easily fit a whole load of washing on the rails, spreading out socks and underwear on the wings and using the main rack for larger items such as towels and dresses.

The pack contains a full length zipped cover that is easy to use with the airer and encloses the heat from it to speed up the drying process.I found it easy enough to slot the contraption together the first time I took it out of the surprisingly small box it arrived in, with no tools required. The Black + Decker airer offers a third option, as the shelves can be folded to double as hanging rails, which is really handy for drying longer items.

It’s another dryer with an incredibly lightweight aluminium design – we were able to move it using just one hand – and it’s carpet-friendly too, with beam supports instead of separate, carpet-branding feet. I tried a variety of heated airers including pods, heated airers with wings and tiered heated airers. The longer they take to dry items, the more they’ll ultimately end up costing, but even if you use them to start the drying process, they should make a noticeable difference to your laundry pile. If you’re in a box room, or have the heated airer right next to your desk while working from home, you may get a bit of heat to take the edge off. We tested their weights by seeing if we could lift or push them one-handed, and we came back to each airer every hour to try to work out which had the fastest drying times.Some say it's really sturdy and surprisingly compact given the amount of clothes it can hold, while others say that the middle rack broke after few use. When it comes to speeding up the process, those of us who can’t stand to see garments draped over radiators – or don’t want to fork out for a tumble dryer – will find that heated clothes airers offer a great middle ground. When I powered up the airer for the first time, I had to check to make sure it was definitely on, as it seemed to take a while to heat up, compared to heated airers that I had used before. Bedsheets dried more quickly, while drying times for clothes ranged from one and a half hours to four hours one minute. Despite the lack of cover and any fancy extras, I feel the Black + Decker 3 Tier Heated Airer offers good value for money.

Plus, when we were finished, we could just fasten the clips again, after folding the dryer flat, for easy storage. The dryer does stand quite wide when set up, at 66cm, which is a little wide for my small apartment although it folds completely flat which is handy for storage. I found the Dry:Soon took around four to five hours to dry lighter materials; and closer to 10-12 for heavier jumpers and the like.This heated airer is a and easy to use and more cost effective and energy efficient than using a tumble dryer; its also better for you clothes too.