While heated airers use less electricity per hour than a tumble dryer, they take longer to dry the clothes. So, if you're drying big loads regularly, it will cost you more to run a heated airer annually than a tumble dryer.

Proper ventilation: When using airers or dryers indoors, ensure proper ventilation to allow moisture to escape. This helps prevent excessive humidity and promotes faster drying. If you have a larger-sized airer or dryer, we recommend also leaving some space between each of the hanging items to allow for more airflow.The best heated clothes airers are perfectly safe, and can even be left overnight, though many of the better ones have built-in timer modes too. Having said that, you'll probably want to be mindful of having small children in the same room, as the bars on the airers themselves can be quite hot to the touch, so having them set up out of the way will always be best. How we choose the best heated clothes airers

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. As much as a bit of heat helps speed up the drying process, so too does a bit of open air, which is why you get the best of both worlds in this winged design. Admittedly, the Minky Wing takes up some space when it’s opened and loaded up, but the lightweight airer folds compactly and neatly for easy storage. There’s also the option of using the airer folded flat without the wings, for smaller basketfulls of washing. Costing less than 4p per hour to run, it’s also impressively economic with its electricity usage. Altogether, the airer offers a total drying space of 12 metres and comes with its own cover designed to retain heat. We dried a small cotton load on each airer, representing a week's worth of washing for a single person. At Howards, we also offer a wide range of accessories to ensure that your laundry is cared for and the clothes drying process runs smoothly. These include: ARMS FOR UP TO 30 HANGERS -- The three arms fold out to provide plenty of space for shirts, skirts, tops and trousers. Each arm has space for up to 10 clothes hangers (not included) and the overall maximum weight is 22kg.But the savings reduce dramatically for larger laundry loads, where you'd need to use the heated airer multiple times to dry a load that could fit in the tumble dryer in one go.

Like most things in life, it depends. In this case: on the amount of clothes you need to dry and how fast you want them to dry.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. A typical drying pod will do a cotton load in a couple of hours, and a tumble dryer will take anywhere from one to three hours to do a big load of laundry. It's faster than air-drying indoors, but a heated clothes airer is still the slowest of the three. Metallic Pegs: Stainless steel pegs ensure that your garments will hang securely on lines and are made of durable materials to reduce the chances of breaking.