I came across a discussion about the best way to dry clothes if your dryer is on the fritz. Or, for those who want to dry a small amount of clothes and not bother with the dryer.
Along came a recommendation which has its roots in Great Britain-heated airers.
Now I've never heard of these. They look much like those old fashioned accordion style racks with the horizontal rods across the top. My mother had one of those and I bought one a year ago just for drying onions and garlic I'd harvested.
This British site has images of various types of heated airers available, all of which work by electricity. Plug it in and the rods heat up which dry your clothes. Many swear by this technique.
Amazon has many for sale, most without customer reviews of feedback. This may be due to it being a fairly new British idea yet to catch on with Americans. But now that i think about passing on this thing, it would be just like our dryer to stop working.
My wife's grandmother and first cousin had a towel dryer bar in the bathroom of their house and condo (town house). Very much needed to keep warm in the very cold English heating systems. On a trip in the 1970's we visit one of grandma's neighbors who had a beautiful brick bungalow like you would see in Clayton, and the only heat was an open fireplace. Grandma had money so she had a big hot water boiler system heating a 21 room house. My wife's uncle lived in a Council House apartment (like our housing projects-multi story). When the heat was turned on, it was never shut off, no controls in individual apartments. Unusual family-grandma in the ritzy place on the Coast near the Isle of White, and her son in a Council house. apartment. I can't explain it.
Posted by: Frank | January 17, 2022 at 12:18 PM
Was the towel bar heated, Frank?
Posted by: Diane Meyer | January 17, 2022 at 06:29 PM