Heated clothes maid as cheap rug drier?

[webble]

I was thinking of getting a heated clothes maid anyway but am wondering if it could also double up as a rug drier? Looking at the design it would actually spread the rug out more so in theory dry it better than it being folded.

Am I missing something obvious here oh wise hhoers? Rug driers seem to start around £350 and go up whereas a heated maid is around £80+

 

[Tiddlypom]

Would it be sturdy enough to cope with having a heavy wet rug draped over it?

 

[webble]

Would it be sturdy enough to cope with having a heavy wet rug draped over it?

That was my one concern to be honest but my rugs are mostly 50g so hopefully not too bad

 

[beingachicken]

A cheap electric radiator and a few chairs either side is quite good

 

[Northern Hare]

We have one of the Lakeland 3-tier heated clothes airers and it’s great and we used it all the time in our previous house where we had a useless combined washer / drier. We found it worked even better at drying laundry if we draped a duvet cover over it to keep the heat in. We’ve now got a decent tumble drier so the heated airier is a bit redundant now but good to have as a fallback.

So that’s the clothes drying bit.

I’ve got Premier Equine turnouts for my horse and I use the removable liners, which dry nice and quickly on the heated airier - on the Lakeland one, you can stand it up but leave the shelves folded down, so it’s quite easy to drape the rug liner over it. I also dried thermatex cooler rugs, and no fill lightweight turnout on it. I’m not sure it would be strong enough for heavier rugs unless you gave it a really good spin in the washing machine first.

Hope that helps!

 

[webble]

We have one of the Lakeland 3-tier heated clothes airers and it’s great and we used it all the time in our previous house where we had a useless combined washer / drier. We found it worked even better at drying laundry if we draped a duvet cover over it to keep the heat in. We’ve now got a decent tumble drier so the heated airier is a bit redundant now but good to have as a fallback.

So that’s the clothes drying bit.

I’ve got Premier Equine turnouts for my horse and I use the removable liners, which dry nice and quickly on the heated airier - on the Lakeland one, you can stand it up but leave the shelves folded down, so it’s quite easy to drape the rug liner over it. I also dried thermatex cooler rugs, and no fill lightweight turnout on it. I’m not sure it would be strong enough for heavier rugs unless you gave it a really good spin in the washing machine first.

Hope that helps!

That's awesome thank you it was actually a lakeland one I was looking at https://www.lakeland.co.uk/21736/Dry:Soon-Standard-3-Tier-Heated-Tower-Airer

 

[D66]

If you are drying clean, lightweight rugs you should be OK. My experience of drying heavy, rainsoaked turnouts is that they stink and you wouldnt want them indoors. I put them on a rail over an old electric radiator in the tack room (as Beingachicken says above.) The lakeland dryer is excellent but not particularly robust.

 

[JennBags]

I find the easiest way to dry a rug is to leave it on the horse 😂😂

 

[Otherwise]

I find the easiest way to dry a rug is to leave it on the horse 😂😂

Same, we had a proper heated rug rack and it would take hours longer to dry a rug than if it had been left on the horse.

 

[webble]

I find the easiest way to dry a rug is to leave it on the horse 😂😂

That's what I do currently but when he comes in in wet rugs he almost takes the stable down itching

 

[SlinkyMinxy]

I made my own cheap rug drier by buying an oil-filled radiator and putting it underneath one of those combination ladders that you can fold down into a 'platform' position. It's really sturdy and easily takes the weight of two soaked heavyweight rugs. I have it on a timer switch so that it's on for about 5 hours, which I find gets the rugs dry enough. I've had it for several years but remember that the combined cost of the radiator and ladder was less than £100.

As a bonus, it was a godsend during the really cold weather we've had in the last couple of winters. I was able to put buckets of water near the radiator, switch it on, drape some rugs over the top and the water was still usable in the mornings, when everything else was frozen solid. Plus the barn cats absolutely love it!!

 

[Goldenstar]

I use one it works ok .

 

[Tiddlypom]

I’ve got some rug rails which are fixed on the end wall in my unheated tack room. They’re a bit like these in the pic. I hang a wet rug up on one of the rails and the worst of the wet drains off overnight. I store my ‘in use’ rugs on it, too.

 

[honetpot]

My solution is leave it on the horse. If it’s a breathable rug the heat from the horse drys it out.
Double rugged I have a clean turnout underneath, which only goes on with the dirty over it, when going out. If it needs a stable rug it just has the ‘clean’ turnout rug. I like Rambo and Rhino because the sizing works really well with this method.

 

[CazD]

I bought one of the heated clothes rails from Aldi which has now ended up in the garage as a rug drier. We reinforced the legs and it works perfectly for drying rugs, yard coats etc.