At a glance
Expert’s Rating
Pros
- Highly customisable
- Three-tiered and double-sided
- 12-hour timer
- Energy efficient
Cons
- Cover comes separately
- Took 12 hours to dry bulkier items
- Plastic clips and the handle feel cheap
Our Verdict
For most of the year, drying your laundry can be a challenge. But the Dry:Soon Deluxe 3-Tier Heated Clothes Airer is a budget-friendly solution, costing only 9p an hour to run. With up to 21m of drying space, the three-tiered tower is roomy yet compact and can be customised to your needs. Just know that bulkier pieces of clothing will take 10-12 hours to dry.
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Living in the UK, for three (and sometimes four) seasons of the year, there’s a high chance of rain, grey skies, and low temperatures. This all makes for a less than ideal environment to dry your clothes, and if you dry them indoors, it can make the air in your home damp and encourage mould.
But that’s where a heated dryer, like the Dry:Soon Deluxe 3-Tier Heated Clothes Airer, can help.
Designed and developed by British homeware store Lakeland, this piece of easy-to-use home tech will banish the sight of delicates draped over radiators, lower the noise levels in your home (as there’ll be no tumble dryer rattling away) and cost you only 9p per hour to run – a huge amount less than a tumble dryer.
But how did it fare during real-world testing? Keep reading to find out.
Design and Build
- Fairly aesthetically pleasing
- Compact design when open and when folded
- Dimensions: 132.5 (H) x 70 (W) x 74cm (D)
- Weight: 5.9kg
- Doesn’t come with a cover
With its white and silver colouring, the Dry:Soon Deluxe 3-Tier Heated Clothes Airer is a reasonably attractive addition to any home.
It features 36 heated bars, 12 clips, a carry handle for easy transportation, cord, plug and plug tidy. It also has a small screen display on the side with three buttons, including a ‘mode’, ‘hour’ and ‘on/off’ switch.
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This allows you to set three timers: one to switch the airer off (which could work well overnight); one to switch the airer on (which could work if you’re heading out); and even to switch the airer on and then switch off (so your laundry can dry even if you’re not at home).
The frame is made from aluminium, which means it’s light but robust. Its handle and clips – the latter of which hold up the bars – are made from plastic. These two sections are the only flimsy part of the design.
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At 5.9kg in weight, the heated clothes airer is very light. Of course, once you add wet clothes into the mix, it does make your airer heavier to move. But once you’ve found the best position for your heated airer next to a wall socket, you’ll only really need to move it when and if you’re packing it away – which is simple. And, as it folds down to just 8cm deep, it’s easy to store.
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Fully opened, the heated airer is pretty tall, although it takes up no more room than you need. What’s great about this design is the fact that it’s essentially two heated airers in one.
If you’re short on space or have only a small load of washing, you’ll only need to open out one side of the heated airer. Whereas if you’ve washed 15kg of laundry, you can open up the second half. If you do so, this gives a whopping 21m of drying space.
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Aside from the flimsy-feeling plastic additions, the only real red flag of this heated airer is that it doesn’t come with a cover. If you want one, you’ll need to pay an extra £45 or you could invest in Lakeland’s bundle – the Dry:Soon 3-Tier Heated Airer and Cover Bundle – for £204.98.
Performance and Features
- Easy to use
- 300W means it costs 9p per hour to run
- Chunkier items of clothing will take at least 10-12 hours to dry
Tech doesn’t have to be confusing to be good. Sometimes, simple is best and the Dry:Soon Deluxe 3-Tier Heated Clothes Airer proves this. To use it, you’ll just need to open it up, pull down the heated bars to rest on the plastic clips, plug it in, pop your washing on, decide on the programme and you’re good to go.
One of the things I often worry about when using a heated airer is that only the parts of the clothing that are touching the bars will dry. But this wasn’t the case – even without a cover. For the first load of washing, which was a mixture of dark items like T-shirts, shirts and delicates, I placed the heated airer on for four hours. After coming back to assess, I felt they needed a little longer and after two more hours, all items were dry.
My second batch of washing involved larger items, such as sheets which I used to test out the handy built-in timer to help me dry my bedding overnight. After figuring out how to use it, and pressing the ‘hour’ button repeatedly, I set the timer to switch the airer off in 8 hours, which would mean it finished at the time I woke up. However, even after catching some Zzzs, parts of my clothing were still damp. I set the airer to heat up for four more hours and it was only after 12 hours that all the clothing was dry.
The third load included bulkier items of clothing, like jeans, chunky jumpers and towels which, admittedly, were a little bit tricky to fit in between the bars. Because of this, I used more than one bar to help dry the items, laying a couple of jumpers horizontally rather than vertically. Bulky items took 10 hours of drying time.
Price and Availability
There’s no doubt that this is a bit of an investment, but if your home tend to get damp, it’s well worth the cost, which you’ll make back over time by not using your power-hungry tumble dryer.
Should you buy the Dry:Soon Deluxe 3-Tier Heated Clothes Airer?
All in all, this heated airer does what it claims to do. I like the fact it has a handy cable tie that helps you keep things neat and means that you can use this airer year-round (as you don’t necessarily have to plug it in during the warmer months).
I also love the fact that you can customise the airer depending on what you are drying. For example, for longer items, like trousers or dresses, you could pull down the bar at the top and let them hang freely without any other items below. Or, if you’ve got lots of smaller items, like kids’ clothing, you could make use of the full 21m of drying space.
Plus, if you want your laundry to be drying while you do other, more important things, the timer will come in handy as not only can you set it and let it get to work, but you can keep a watchful eye on how long left the timer has until it’s done, as it will flash up on the display.
The thing is, unlike a tumble dryer, heated airers aren’t known for their quick-drying powers. So if you are looking for speed, you won’t find it here. But if you’re looking for a cost-effective way to dry your laundry during the colder months of the year, at 9p an hour you can’t go far wrong. That said, I would be tempted to see if investing in a cover could help make the process a whole lot speedier.
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Author: Rebecca Shepherd, Contributor, Tech Advisor
Rebecca Shepherd specialises in reviews of home appliances and fitness tech. From kitchen gadgets, like air fryers, to workout wearables, like watches. She’s a UK-based freelance lifestyle journalist with more than 10 years’ experience and has written for publications including The Telegraph, The Evening Standard, Women’s Health, Marie Claire, Homes & Gardens, The Independent, Tom’s Guide, Tech Radar and more.
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