There are two main types of heated clothes airer: heated bar clothes airers and drying pods. Both work very differently.

I’ve set this up in my bathroom and use it for towels and to dry any excess laundry which can’t fit on my main dryer - usually underwear. It doesn’t get as warm as options higher up but it’s great for drying damp towels in spring and autumn when it’s not cold enough to turn on the radiator. per hour for 200W dryers and 9p per hour for 300W dryers, approximately. This is based on the energy price cap of 30p per kW/h since July 1 2023, although prices will vary according to your tariff. They dry clothes faster than heated bar clothes airers, but typically have smaller capacities. You'll be able to hang dresses and jeans in them, but bedsheets and duvets are a no-go. Tumble dryers might be the fastest way of drying your clothes, but not all garments can withstand that level of heat without shrinkage or damage – and other items can lose years of their life. Instead, heated airers offer a solution that is kinder to both your clothes and the environment. They provide room for airflow like regular clothes airers or clothes horses except with a bit of extra heat to speed the process up. Where a tumble dryer consumes around 4.5kWh per cycle, heated clothes airers often use less than 0.3kWh and rarely higher than 1.2kWh, so even though they’re slower than a tumble dryer, they will cost you less in the long run.You might end up with dry clothes, but you'll also end up with a colder home and bigger energy bills.

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. 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. 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 We dried a small cotton load on each airer, representing a week's worth of washing for a single person. Need to know 11.1m available drying space (18 medium T-shirts); 230 watts; 2.7kg weight; 135cm cord length; 15kg maximum load weightYou can also select a convenient day to receive your delivery by choosing a named day delivery (delivery on working days only).