Dry:Soon 3-tier heated airer
Best: Overall
Rating: 10/10
There’s a good reason why this heated airer from Lakeland has a cohort of devoted fans. Made of lightweight aluminium, the thermostatically-controlled heated bars help speed the drying process along so you won’t need to spend days with wet washing draped all over your living room.
It has 21m of drying space and can take 15kg of laundry, but we found it worked better with less and was especially good for smaller items or anything laid flat across the bars. If we left it overnight, even heavier jumpers were thoroughly dry as long as we avoided cramming the airer. To speed things further, dedicated Dry:Soon fans recommend buying the extra airer cover to keep the heat in (or covering the whole thing with a fitted sheet if you can’t face spending more cash).
As a real bonus, it even meant our clothes looked less creased once dry, so we could put them straight away without ironing. All this and it costs less than 6p an hour to run. Just be aware, it is very tall and, though it folds down to 8cm deep, you will need a decent space to stand it and somewhere to store it when not in use too. But for dry clothes year-round and considerably less ironing, it’s well worth the splurge.