Lakeland TSV 30/09/20

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Bigbean said:
Do Lakeland have offers on the airers at some point do you know because they are quite expensive?
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They do have special offers direct but the QVC Tsv usually is a good price but had added extras that you won't need so maybe not such good vfm. Another good place is Amazon I bought the large airer with the timer for a little over £100.00 it was a customer return still working years later
 
Lakeland have an outlet shop on eBay, that is where I bought my airer from For about half the retail price. I suspect they have a lot of returns to sell because the dryer isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea. It does take a lot of hours to dry things and some heavy things do struggle. Later, I bought the cover from Lakeland (full price) and that does help with the drying process. I’m not sure I’d buy another one in the future, I’d look at buying a combined washer dryer or the dehumidifier that’s been talked about. I find it a lot easier to hang things on my non heated airer, less fiddly.
 
For zillions of years I had a separate washer and tumble dryer both worked well but our utility room is pokey and I had notions of rearranging it so when the time for replacement came I thought I would try the combined washer dryer, decided if it was going to work well it would need to be a good one so purchased a top of the range AEG.

Well what a waste of money! To get it to wash and dry it took hours and I mean hours yet it still wasn’t dry. Very soon I went out and bought a reasonable priced dryer and just use the machine as a washer.
 
Mazza said:
I have never heard of this!!!!! It sounds like a brilliant idea. Now two questions.

1. Do you keep the window open or shut whilst running it? Cos I dry my laundry in a spare room on an airer with the window open.

2. I see you can get them from Amazon around £120-£150. Is this a good price? Some are dearer so wouldn't know which is the better buy really. But I think I might have a splurge! (With all the crutches, frame, elevated chair, there won't be room to move here soon.)
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This is the one we have, the 12 ltr version. It’s remarkably quiet as well.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07NVW1JWB/?tag=shoppingcom03-21
 
candycane said:
I wouldn't mind a heated airer as we've no room for a tumble drier and the "clothes horse" we have is unheated but takes up the same space as a heated airer would but be up for less time. Our small livingroom looks like a Chinese laundry in the winter.

CC
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I have a dehumidifier with a laundry setting that I use in our south facing living room. I put he clothes to dry on a folding clothes horse with the dehumidifier next to it.
 
apple said:
Lakeland have an outlet shop on eBay, that is where I bought my airer from For about half the retail price. I suspect they have a lot of returns to sell because the dryer isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea. It does take a lot of hours to dry things and some heavy things do struggle. Later, I bought the cover from Lakeland (full price) and that does help with the drying process. I’m not sure I’d buy another one in the future, I’d look at buying a combined washer dryer or the dehumidifier that’s been talked about. I find it a lot easier to hang things on my non heated airer, less fiddly.
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The Lakeland Windsor shop has an outlet section on the first floor.
 
stratobuddy said:
I've had a dehumidifier for about 25 years when they were rare and very expensive.

These days, I only use it in the bathroom if it is particularly steamy. It has to be plugged in outside, of course.
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What a good idea never thought of that. We usually open the window but in the depths of winter that will be good
 
I’m always baffled by the claims made about the Lakeland airer, They tell us that it won’t create condensation like drying washing on radiators or a normal airer does, but to me the science seems exactly the same. Both methods of drying change water in the washing to water vapour in the air so I don’t understand how one is better. I imagine the cover would keep the heat in but wouldn’t it also keep the damp air in and slow the drying process? I have seen lots of positive reviews so plenty of people must be happy with the airer. I have a dehumidifier as the idea of drying the air in order to dry laundry makes more sense to me.
 
I couldn’t be doing with having clothes hanging about or having a clothes dryer stuck in one of my rooms, so it’s line drying for me and the tumble dryer when the weather is iffy.
 
Toril said:
I couldn’t be doing with having clothes hanging about or having a clothes dryer stuck in one of my rooms, so it’s line drying for me and the tumble dryer when the weather is iffy.
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I do have a garden and washing line Toril and line dry is always my first option but I live in Scotland . . . . My kitchen is tiny and I don't have room for a tumble drier but I do have one of those blower drier things that look like an alien. Takes up too much room though, but it does work.

CC
 
Here if it’s dry enough to dry clothes either we are in the garden and dodging sheets when mowing or weeding is no joke or the neighbours are BBQIng so they smell like McDonalds.

The rest of the days it’s so bliddy miserable it wouldn’t dry a hanky.

It probably rains 70% of the time and the other 30% it’s a hurricane!
 
loveallthingsitalian said:
Here if it’s dry enough to dry clothes either we are in the garden and dodging sheets when mowing or weeding is no joke or the neighbours are BBQIng so they smell like McDonalds.

The rest of the days it’s so bliddy miserable it wouldn’t dry a hanky.

It probably rains 70% of the time and the other 30% it’s a hurricane!
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Are you my neighbour? :D
 
Lakeland have the occasional 20% their DrySoon range but you do need a cover or you're turning the clothes a lot to get every bit dry.

Boris, I do leave my window open a crack while it's on but with the cover on it gets quite warm and also warms the room a bit. I open my windows every day for a bit unless the weather is extremely bad. If it's very cold I open the windows upstairs while I'm down and the ones downstairs while I'm in other rooms.

I've never had mold or damp but I have a few friends that dry their washing on radiators with no windows open. They tend to only have the radiators on while drying washing, too. Then they complain ceaselessly about mold and damp. The worst was a friend who was adamant that if her tumble was meant to have a vent it would have come with it. It only took a few weeks of the habit of running the dryer with no vent along with windows always closed and little heat for the whole house to go black.

I have the little upright towel warmer from Aldi and find it very useful.

I've used my dehumidifier in the same room as my Lakeland airer and it's quite effective though I have to turn the airer round a few times or the clothes in the back don't dry as quickly as the ones nearer the dehumidifier.
I also agree that unless you have very little washing to do a combi washer/dryer is bloody hard work! It takes forever to do a load and then doesn't dry very well. The only good thing about them is they lack a fluff filter and water tank to look after (though my old one did have a filter I needed to clean out occasionally).
 

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