What I do is use an ordinary fan, no heat. I place it at the bottom of the airer and leave on full blast. Takes longer to dry the clothes, but at a fraction of the price. The fan is rated at 31 watts. Can leave the fan on for 8 hours, which uses a quarter of a unit of electricity. The clothes are then dry, often at 5 hours, depending on how much washing is being dried.
We don’t have a tumble, but we do have normal air dryer … we’ve not used the radiators since March. Therefore, about 8 months of the year we use the sunshine or the normal clothes horse. So not sure the heated air dryer will save us any thing.
Drying laundry electrically is expensive in general. Since I live in California where electricity is 32¢ a kilowatt, it’ll cost about $1.28 to $1.60 to dry a load electronically. Can dry 4 loads of laundry for the same price in a gas dryer in my area, maybe even up to 5.
Interesting… what about humidity? If we dry clothes in the house, not in the tumble dryer, humidity soars and we get a lot more condensation. Other than cost, it might be a consideration.
@@kash.h interestingly im doing a test at the mo and the ambient humidity in the house was about 52 all round the house with no heated airer on. Inside the airer with it on with washing in it it went down to around 35%. I see slot of dehumidifier talk, I think it may be debatable.
I just bought one of these from Lakeland and it looks like the same product as yours, but with a different branded name. I decided to buy the tent accessory to help dry the clothes quicker, hopefully, and because it looks tidier, without the clothes showing. I’ve also got a white Knight tumble dryer, but it’s not working at the moment, until I give it a good clean, and press the reset button at the back of the machine to reactivate it. If that doesn’t work, it may be broken. I was considering before getting the airer to buy a heated pump tumble dryer, to save costs, but it needs to be an integrated machine, and I wasn’t impressed with the integrated ones, and the reviews about how well they dry clothes.
What I do is use an ordinary fan, no heat. I place it at the bottom of the airer and leave on full blast. Takes longer to dry the clothes, but at a fraction of the price. The fan is rated at 31 watts. Can leave the fan on for 8 hours, which uses a quarter of a unit of electricity. The clothes are then dry, often at 5 hours, depending on how much washing is being dried.
Yeah nice 👌
This was a very well made video. Keep up the good work Dadskillz !
Cheers and thanks for watching!
We don’t have a tumble, but we do have normal air dryer … we’ve not used the radiators since March. Therefore, about 8 months of the year we use the sunshine or the normal clothes horse. So not sure the heated air dryer will save us any thing.
Drying laundry electrically is expensive in general. Since I live in California where electricity is 32¢ a kilowatt, it’ll cost about $1.28 to $1.60 to dry a load electronically. Can dry 4 loads of laundry for the same price in a gas dryer in my area, maybe even up to 5.
this for the UK 7p per kwh over night which is 9c on octopus if done over night. so in uk its very cheep
Great video, also I could do with getting a timer plug as well. Thanks for the video mate.
Cheers for watching 👍
Interesting… what about humidity? If we dry clothes in the house, not in the tumble dryer, humidity soars and we get a lot more condensation. Other than cost, it might be a consideration.
Good point I’d not thought about or noticed. I wonder if the tent is cure for that.
@@dadskillz The tent should make it worse! because where the water vapor goes?!
@@arionfar it does have vented areas on top. I must say since using it the tent seems to help a lot. 👍
@@dadskillz eventually even with the tent the air in your room will have to absorb that moisture. Best way is to probably also run a dehumidifier.
@@kash.h interestingly im doing a test at the mo and the ambient humidity in the house was about 52 all round the house with no heated airer on. Inside the airer with it on with washing in it it went down to around 35%. I see slot of dehumidifier talk, I think it may be debatable.
Mine doesn’t have the vents at the top of the tent
I just bought one of these from Lakeland and it looks like the same product as yours, but with a different branded name. I decided to buy the tent accessory to help dry the clothes quicker, hopefully, and because it looks tidier, without the clothes showing. I’ve also got a white Knight tumble dryer, but it’s not working at the moment, until I give it a good clean, and press the reset button at the back of the machine to reactivate it. If that doesn’t work, it may be broken. I was considering before getting the airer to buy a heated pump tumble dryer, to save costs, but it needs to be an integrated machine, and I wasn’t impressed with the integrated ones, and the reviews about how well they dry clothes.
After some time with the tent now, I would recommend it. I think it does dry quicker. Thanks for watching it’s much appreciated 🙏
Thank you 😊
AWESOME review, man! It had it all from electric specifications to ending with a joke.
Thanks for watching!
Better off with heat pump tumble costs are 1/3 of normal tumble
Works really well, good job matty 😀
There is no need to buy a cover. Just use what you ve got in your earing cupboard, which is a duvet cover
Thank you for the video Does it warm the area it is in aswell?
Yes a little, people have asked about damp or humidity but I’ve not experienced that. 👍
Return to using the good ole clothes line!
I can when it’s not raining