10 tips on how to choose a clothes dryer: types and options

The clothes dry­er will not take up much space in the room, bath­room or on the bal­cony. There are not so many impor­tant para­me­ters when buy­ing a dry­er, our tips will help you sort them out.

• What are the types of dry­ers
• Move­ment fea­tures
• How to deter­mine the right dry­er size
• How to choose the num­ber of lev­els and guides at the dry­er
• What are clothes dry­ers made of?

A sim­ple design, often made of a frame and ropes or rods, and a vari­ety of place­ment options for a clothes dry­er will increase the usable area in the apart­ment.

No. 2. Wall-mounted clothes dryers

Most com­fort­able, prac­ti­cal and pop­u­lar Today, the option is wall-mount­ed dry­ers. They are installed on strong load-bear­ing walls and pro­vide enough free space for the trans­for­ma­tion of the dry­er. These are com­pact mod­els that save space, but some of them are not designed for heavy loads.

There are sev­er­al vari­a­tions of wall dry­ers:

• iner­tial fold­ing dry­ers;
• accor­dion dry­ers;
• tele­scop­ic dry­ers;
• ele­va­tor type dry­ers;
• fold­ing dry­ers;
• the most com­mon sta­tion­ary dry­ers.

Iner­tial fold­ing dry­ers con­sist of two parts, which are installed on oppo­site walls. In one of the parts there is a spin­ning drum with ropes, in the sec­ond — hooks. The ropes are pulled out with very lit­tle effort and attached to the hooks. The num­ber of ropes in dif­fer­ent mod­els may vary. In the fold­ed ver­sion, such a dry­er takes up a min­i­mum of space on the wall, and when dis­as­sem­bled, it is a roomy fix­ture on which you can hang a decent amount of laun­dry. This option can be called an improved ana­logue of the sta­tion­ary ropes famil­iar to us, which until recent­ly dec­o­rat­ed almost every bath­room.

Slid­ing wall-mount­ed dry­er type “accor­dion” is attached to only one wall and, if nec­es­sary, can be pulled for­ward thanks to a spe­cial mech­a­nism that looks like an accor­dion. For hang­ing linen, instead of ropes or strings, tubes with a diam­e­ter of 1 cm are used here, so there will be no creas­es on the linen. The num­ber of tubes may vary and, as a rule, ranges from 5 to 10 pieces. Their width is from 50 cm to 1.2 m, so it is not very con­ve­nient to dry bed linen on such devices. When assem­bled, accor­dion dry­ers take up a min­i­mum of space, are con­sid­ered hardy and can with­stand a decent weight of laun­dry. Such dry­ers are usu­al­ly installed in bath­rooms, much less often on bal­conies.

Tele­scop­ic dry­ers sim­i­lar to accor­dions in that they also move for­ward, only the mech­a­nism here is slight­ly dif­fer­ent. You can open them either com­plete­ly or only par­tial­ly. These are com­pact designs, but they can not with­stand very much weight, they are suit­able for dry­ing under­wear, shirts, blous­es, socks and oth­er light items.

Lift type dry­er is the most ver­sa­tile mod­el. It can be installed on the bal­cony and in the bath­room, it takes up a min­i­mum of space, but allows you to hang a large amount of laun­dry. Some ele­ments of such a dry­er can be attached to the ceil­ing, so it is more cor­rect to call this design wall-to-ceil­ing dry­er. A struc­ture of two planks and sev­er­al met­al tubes (the stan­dard num­ber is 6) is attached to the wall, which, thanks to a spe­cial mech­a­nism, are eas­i­ly low­ered to the required height. This option allows you to low­er the tube to con­ve­nient­ly hang the laun­dry, and then raise it to the max­i­mum height so that the dry­ing things do not both­er any­one. More­over, this mech­a­nism allows you to dry things at dif­fer­ent lev­els, pro­vid­ing them with the best ven­ti­la­tion. Each tube ris­es and falls inde­pen­dent­ly of the oth­ers. These dry­ers are also called “vines”. They are able to with­stand weight up to 25 kg and are con­sid­ered the most mod­ern, thought­ful and com­fort­able.

Fold­ing dry­ers have a fair­ly sim­ple design, can with­stand a decent weight. While the dry­er is not need­ed, it is attached to the wall and takes up a min­i­mum of space, even less than a con­ven­tion­al heat­ed tow­el rail. After wash­ing, such a dry­er is thrown back, and the angle of incli­na­tion can be any. The process of fold­ing and unfold­ing takes a moment, it is con­ve­nient to use the dry­er, the width and num­ber of par­ti­tions can vary wide­ly. Usu­al­ly they are installed in bath­rooms, but they will be quite appro­pri­ate on the bal­cony.

The sim­plest and most tra­di­tion­al option is sta­tion­ary wall dry­er for linen. If there is space in the apart­ment, then two planks are attached to the walls, between which ropes are pulled. Pre­vi­ous­ly, such struc­tures dec­o­rat­ed the entire bath­room, mak­ing it dif­fi­cult for house­holds to move around it, so today these dry­ers are used main­ly on bal­conies and behind bal­conies. Improved ver­sion — roller dry­er, which facil­i­tates the process of hang­ing things if access to the entire length of the rope is dif­fi­cult. It is enough just to pull the rope, and thanks to the rollers in the slats, it will eas­i­ly move from its place, and anoth­er part of it will move towards you. Ide­al for those who orga­nize dry­ing clothes out­side the win­dow or bal­cony.

Movement Features

There are mod­els with lift­ing or slid­ing mech­a­nism. So it is more con­ve­nient to both hang up and take off clothes, as well as place the dry­er itself. The pres­ence of adjust­ment and mech­a­nism is typ­i­cal for wall mod­els.

Among slid­ing clothes dry­ers, the most pop­u­lar are con­sole and iner­tial ones.

Cantilever clothes dryers

Can­tilever struc­tures are a sys­tem of cross­bars that fold up like an accor­dion and are mount­ed on one wall. The sys­tem is able to with­stand loads, and when fold­ed serves as a con­ve­nient hold­er for tow­els.

Inertial clothes dryers

Iner­tial clothes dry­ers are two blocks that are mount­ed on oppo­site walls. For dry­ing, one of the blocks, in which the drum with ropes is locat­ed, is pulled out and con­nect­ed to anoth­er. An iner­tial dry­er will be a good inte­ri­or solu­tion, but not with­out draw­backs. These include wear, sag­ging and loss of elas­tic­i­ty of the ropes over time. There­fore, when choos­ing such a dry­er, look at the mod­els with the pos­si­bil­i­ty of replac­ing this ele­ment.

“Liana”

For ceil­ing mod­els, a liana-type lift­ing mech­a­nism is used. It is a sus­pen­sion-tube through which nylon ropes are passed. They are addi­tion­al­ly fixed to the wall block with clamps. This allows each tube to be low­ered and raised inde­pen­dent­ly. A pop­u­lar and con­ve­nient place to place such a dry­er is a bal­cony. Dry­ers such as “liana” are easy to use, the dif­fi­cul­ty is only in instal­la­tion.

Number 3. Ceiling-mounted clothes dryers

Such designs save space, but they are a lit­tle more dif­fi­cult to install than wall-mount­ed ones, so they are used less fre­quent­ly. The fol­low­ing types of dry­ers can be attrib­uted to ceil­ing dry­ers:

• already men­tioned dry­ers “vines” with height-adjustable tubes. Planks can fas­ten to the ceil­ingand then the dry­er from the wall turns into a ceil­ing dry­er, but part of the struc­ture will still have to be mount­ed on the wall for con­ve­nience (this is a block with ropes to con­trol the height of the tubes);

  

• ceil­ing accor­dions. Here the prin­ci­ple is the same as with a wall accor­dion, only the dry­er is installed on the ceil­ing and, if nec­es­sary, a block with dry­ing bars is pulled down and fixed at the required height. After hang­ing the laun­dry, it can be lift­ed up so that things do not inter­fere with free move­ment. In such dry­ers, both ropes and tubes can be used, and they are usu­al­ly locat­ed on the same lev­el. The dry­er is com­pact, but it is dif­fi­cult to dry large laun­dry on it;

  

• hang­ing clothes dry­ers — a prim­i­tive option for hang­ing the most com­pact and light­weight wardrobe items. Such a dry­er looks like a hook with a bar installed on it, on which clothes­pins can addi­tion­al­ly be attached. These are not very durable and strong dry­ers, usu­al­ly made of plas­tic. Mod­els made of met­al and wood show them­selves many times bet­ter.

There are many vari­a­tions in terms of design and size.

Tips for the right choice

• mate­ri­als from which the clothes dry­er is made;
• con­struc­tion type;
• the size.
• The weight for which it is designed;

Before mak­ing the final choice, decide on the goals, objec­tives and place of use of the prod­uct.

Dryer design

The choice of design depends entire­ly on how you intend to use it. If you do laun­dry fre­quent­ly, a low­ered hang­er or vine is a good choice. In this case, a slid­ing dry­er will also not be the best option, as the mech­a­nism will quick­ly fail due to con­stant move­ment.

In a city apart­ment with a sta­ble pow­er sup­ply, an elec­tric clothes dry­er can be installed on the ceil­ing. In sum­mer cot­tages and rur­al homes, where pow­er out­ages occur more often, and some­times there is none at all, con­sid­er the option of a mechan­i­cal design.

For those inter­est­ed in reli­a­bil­i­ty, mod­els with few­er mov­ing parts should be pre­ferred.

materials

• alu­minum;
• wood;
• plas­tic.
• Stain­less steel;

The tree pro­vides a strong and reli­able frame, but over time it los­es its orig­i­nal prop­er­ties due to con­stant con­tact with water. On the oth­er hand, a dry­er made of wood is easy to incor­po­rate into the design of a sum­mer house. This is a good solu­tion if you wash infre­quent­ly.

Alu­minum is a light­weight and durable met­al. How­ev­er, it oxi­dizes and can cause stains. You need an extra coat of paint. Due to the large weight of the mate­r­i­al, it los­es its shape over time. There­fore, it is not suit­able for bed linen, blan­kets and bed­spreads. Since paint­ing is impor­tant in this case, the dry­er can be any col­or, although white is most often used.

Stain­less steel is a ver­sa­tile option. It is durable, water­proof and can with­stand heavy loads. The plas­tic is light but not strong enough. It is best suit­ed for chil­dren’s cloth­ing and under­wear.

When it comes to the dry­er for vines, the mate­r­i­al of the ropes and fas­ten­ers is impor­tant. They can be met­al or nylon. Met­al is the best choice. If you choose a rope, its thick­ness must be at least 3 mm.

Fas­ten­ers and blocks can also be made of met­al or plas­tic. The plas­tic parts of the lift­ing mech­a­nism are dam­aged very quick­ly due to fre­quent use.

Maximum load

Here it is impor­tant to eval­u­ate the type of load to which the select­ed struc­ture will be sub­ject­ed. The max­i­mum weight is the amount of laun­dry that can be hung on it.

The most com­mon prod­ucts have a load capac­i­ty of 15 kg. For an aver­age fam­i­ly, this is quite enough. In any case, you need an acces­so­ry that is suit­able for dry­ing bed linen and duvets.

The size

The longer the dry­er, the more it is prone to warp­ing. There­fore, if you need a project 2 meters or more in length, choose the strongest mate­ri­als: stain­less steel, met­al cords, cables and fit­tings.

No. 4. Floor dryers

Floor slid­ing dry­ers are a great mobile option that can be installed any­where, and when fold­ed takes up min­i­mal space and can be eas­i­ly hid­den in a clos­et, pantry, wardrobe or even behind some piece of fur­ni­ture. Mov­ing, dis­as­sem­bling and assem­bling such mod­els is very sim­ple, they can be com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent in size and lay­out.

To ben­e­fits floor dry­ers include mobil­i­ty, ease of instal­la­tion, wide range, com­pact fold and the abil­i­ty to with­stand heavy loads. The largest dry­ers, how­ev­er, can weigh decent­ly, but for ease of move­ment they are equipped with wheels.

The sim­plest ver­sion of a slid­ing dry­er is one that forms only one plane for hang­ing laun­dry with many ropes. In some designs, addi­tion­al planes can be fold­ed to the sides. Design vari­a­tions are end­less. You can also find on sale ver­ti­cal floor dry­erswhere the planes are locat­ed one below the oth­er. The height of such dry­ers is about 2 m, but can be adjust­ed, it is con­ve­nient to put them in show­ers.

Design­ers, hav­ing once tak­en up the mod­ern­iza­tion of the design of floor dry­ers, today offer us a lot of inter­est­ing options that you don’t even have to hide — when dis­as­sem­bled with­out linen, they resem­ble some kind of mod­ern instal­la­tions.

Tips for using dryers

1. Do not hang clothes tight­ly. The more the fab­ric will “breathe”, the faster it will dry and will not give off a musty smell.
2. Hang out­er­wear by col­lars to save space and clothes­pins.
3. Hang trousers, jeans, shorts, etc. from the waist down so they dry faster.
4. If the dry­er is installed indoors, it is rec­om­mend­ed to pro­vide fresh air sup­ply.
5. Keep an eye on the con­di­tion of the dry­er — rust­ing rods will stain fresh­ly laun­dered clothes.

No. 5. Portable clothes dryers

Own­ers of very small apart­ments can pay atten­tion to portable clothes dry­ers. They are com­pact in size, so you can install them any­where: on the floor, on the bat­tery, on the door, on the bath. Portable dry­ers can be non-fold­ing and fold­ing. Hang­ing dry­ers described above can also be includ­ed in this cat­e­go­ry.

Portable dry­ers take up a min­i­mum of space, and after the laun­dry is dry, they can be eas­i­ly hid­den any­where, but this is the main dis­ad­van­tage — such a design will not dry many things at a time.

Exploitation

• When installing the dry­er, choose a place with a low lev­el of air humid­i­ty. If the struc­ture is mount­ed in the bath­room, then place it away from the show­er and bath.
• Before using the dry­er, wipe the sur­face of the prod­uct with a damp cloth, keep the design clean. If it has rust or chips, it is not rec­om­mend­ed to dry clothes on it, as it may become dirty or shed.

Dry­ers should be stored in a spe­cial­ly des­ig­nat­ed place with a nor­mal tem­per­a­ture and an opti­mal lev­el of mois­ture. This is nec­es­sary to pre­serve the tech­ni­cal prop­er­ties of the prod­uct. Allow the item to dry thor­ough­ly before fold­ing.

• It is not rec­om­mend­ed to fre­quent­ly fold and unfold slid­ing and portable struc­tures, because of this, loos­en­ing of the mech­a­nism and fail­ure of the dry­er may occur.
• To clean elec­tri­cal appli­ances, a rag or a soft brush is used, with which the edges of the air ducts and the side walls of the dry­er are cleaned.

After clean­ing, wipe the sur­faces of the machine with a soft cloth. Do not use abra­sive prod­ucts or sub­stances with chlo­rine.

• To avoid break­age of floor mod­els, hang heavy items on the edges of the dry­er, they are stronger and able to with­stand heavy loads.
• When buy­ing an elec­tric dry­er, pay atten­tion to its fas­ten­ing, as a rule, such mod­els oper­ate with a min­i­mum noise lev­el.

It is bet­ter if the device is equipped with a ther­mo­stat. It is pos­si­ble to mount struc­tures only on a per­fect­ly flat floor.

No. 6. Conventional and electric clothes dryers

In con­ven­tion­al dry­ers, things dry nat­u­ral­ly, in elec­tric dry­ers the process is accel­er­at­ed by addi­tion­al heat­ing. For small apart­ments, where the dis­as­sem­bled dry­er can take up to half the room, accel­er­at­ed dry­ing will be a bonus. Among the oth­ers advan­tages of elec­tric dry­ers:

• fab­rics after dry­ing have a pleas­ant fresh aro­ma, approx­i­mate­ly like after dry­ing in the fresh air;
• the abil­i­ty to adjust the heat­ing pow­er;
• addi­tion­al func­tions, such as an ion­iz­er or an ultra­vi­o­let lamp.

  

Among the short­com­ings, only elec­tric­i­ty con­sump­tion.

Accord­ing to the prin­ci­ple of work such dry­ers can be divid­ed into:

• mod­els with heat­ed rods. No mat­ter how scary it may sound, the heat­ing of the rods is such that it is not able to pro­voke a burn — this is about 50–600C;
• dry­ers with case, inside which warm air cir­cu­lates, which is ensured by the pres­ence of a heat­ing ele­ment and a fan. Such mod­els allow you to dry not only clothes, but also toys, shoes, pil­lows and oth­er prod­ucts.

Elec­tric dry­ers also come in floor, wall and ceil­ing mount. Wall-mount­ed dry­ers are in many ways sim­i­lar to elec­tric tow­el warm­ers, but, as a rule, they involve a retractable design. Floor elec­tric dry­ers out­ward­ly prac­ti­cal­ly do not dif­fer from con­ven­tion­al floor mod­els, only if nec­es­sary they can be con­nect­ed to the net­work and receive addi­tion­al heat­ing.

What are the models

Depend­ing on how much space in the apart­ment is allo­cat­ed for reg­u­lar stor­age of tools, there are:

• for wall and ceil­ing mount­ing, they are secure­ly fas­tened with screws;
• floor mod­els (with addi­tion­al fold­ing wings or a sin­gle table­top);
• for a show­er cab­in: these mod­els are sim­i­lar to radi­a­tors, but larg­er in size;
• on the bath­tub: a slid­ing ele­ment that can be attached to the bath­tub wall or placed hor­i­zon­tal­ly on it.
• In the case of slid­ing mod­els stand­ing on the floor, you can cre­ate addi­tion­al space for dry­ing;
• a radi­a­tor sus­pend­ed from the radi­a­tor with hooks;

No. 7. Other types of clothes dryers

Sep­a­rate­ly, it is worth high­light­ing dry­ers for del­i­cates. This is a mesh stretched over a curved frame. On the grid, you can care­ful­ly lay out things that require spe­cif­ic dry­ing con­di­tions. This dry­er can be installed on a bath­tub, iron­ing board, table or on a con­ven­tion­al dry­er, it pro­vides gen­tle dry­ing and air cir­cu­la­tion.

For the street There are many types of dry­ers avail­able. As a rule, these are sta­tion­ary struc­tures that serve for years and require only peri­od­ic replace­ment of ropes or wires. Quite an inter­est­ing option — street fold­ing dry­er “umbrel­la”, which, if nec­es­sary, opens up and forms a lot of space.

Other types

Mounted

Sim­i­lar to wall-mount­ed, but remov­able, fixed for spe­cial con­structs, heat­ed tow­el rail, radi­a­tor, bal­cony rail­ing. More detailed below.

Overhead

Installed on the bath, the water flows direct­ly into the bowl. The user has to lift the prod­uct, so alu­minum options are pre­ferred.

Gimi Alablock embod­ies the stan­dard con­cept. Can be placed on acrylic board. It is used unfold­ed or installed at an adjustable incli­na­tion.

Balcony

Rope rotary, lift struc­tures are wide­spread. Prod­ucts mount­ed on the rail­ing, remote with ten­sion strings stand apart. Con­sid­er spe­cial oper­at­ing con­di­tions: direct sun­light, freez­ing tem­per­a­tures in win­ter, high humid­i­ty.

No one wants to get hit on the head with a piece of iron that has fall­en from the bal­cony or “fly” him­self, hang­ing clothes. Do not trust your own and oth­er peo­ple’s safe­ty to unknown brands.

Tip: Pay spe­cial atten­tion to the load capac­i­ty, secure fas­ten­ing!

The uni­ver­sal ele­va­tor is suit­able for the bath­room and the log­gia.

Inter­nal hang­ing is secure but takes up space.

Idea Gimi Ring con­sists in a swiv­el grill that frees up space.

It is not easy to fix and assem­ble an exter­nal string mod­el on your own, but it is prob­lem­at­ic to oper­ate.

street

Solu­tion for a pri­vate yard. Require­ments for street mod­i­fi­ca­tion are:

• With­stand wind loads (sta­tion­ary — glacia­tion) with­out break­age, over­turn­ing.
• Resis­tance to atmos­pher­ic pre­cip­i­ta­tion, abra­sive action of dust.
• Ease of main­te­nance: clean­ing, remov­ing or replac­ing ele­ments (hooks, ropes, etc.).

Engi­neers found the orig­i­nal way out Leifheit: umbrel­la or spi­der Lino­mat­ic Deluxe turned out to be prac­ti­cal.

Test from for­eign users:

Heat source

Most appli­ances work on the prin­ci­ple of nat­ur­al evap­o­ra­tion. Do not require addi­tion­al costs, cord, exten­sion cord — do not get under your feet. The rate of evap­o­ra­tion of mois­ture depends on tem­per­a­ture, humid­i­ty, air veloc­i­ty in the apart­ment (on the bal­cony).

Water — essen­tial­ly heat­ed tow­el rails. They are used when the heat­ing sys­tem allows the instal­la­tion of an addi­tion­al device or the replace­ment of an exist­ing one with a larg­er usable heat trans­fer area.

Electrical

Allows you to quick­ly dry clothes, the pow­er varies. Pay­ment for elec­tric­i­ty, bind­ing to the loca­tion of the out­let are the costs of choos­ing an elec­tric dry­er.

Russ­ian Domotermin addi­tion to elec­tric tow­el warm­ers, offers a floor elec­tric dry­er Solo DMT0 EK. Ther­mo­cou­ples inside the tubes pro­vide eco­nom­i­cal (pow­er 130 W) gen­tle dry­ing. Oper­at­ing time, tem­per­a­ture — are set on the con­trol pan­el.

Out­ward­ly sim­i­lar elec­tric fold­ing beds dif­fer in the mate­r­i­al of the com­po­nents, the num­ber of heat­ing zones, and pow­er. For exam­ple, the alu­minum HX-230 from HOTTER is three-zone. Each cross mem­ber of 20 con­tains a heat­ing ele­ment inside. True, the pow­er is 230 W, but the increased pow­er con­sump­tion speeds up the process by 5 times, com­pared to a sim­ple dry­er. At a tem­per­a­ture of 50 — 60 ° C, any things dry out in 1.5 — 2 hours.

Pre­sen­ta­tion:

South Kore­an brand SensPa intro­duces the advanced ceil­ing elec­tric dry­er Mar­mi. Elec­tric low­er­ing beams, built-in hair dry­er, fan, timer — con­trolled from a remote con­trol. Up to 30 kg of laun­dry are blown in the basic mode for 2 hours. Qui­et smooth run­ning mech­a­nism with DC motor, light­ing, audi­ble alarm, stop when col­lid­ing with an obsta­cle — every­thing is thought out for the com­fort and safe­ty of the client.

Minus­es:

• high cost (from 40,000 rubles);
• air blow­ing is per­mis­si­ble in the absence of a per­son near­by;
• pro­fes­sion­al instal­la­tion and ser­vice required.

Nuances: https://senspa.ru/catalog/sushilki_dlya_belya/umnaya_sushilka_dlya_belya_senspa_marmi/.

The task of forced air­flow is more effi­cient­ly solved by the com­pa­ny Atlanta in the mod­el ATH-5701 (https://www.atlanta-hq.com/garment-steamers-driers/ath-5701.html). In prin­ci­ple, this is a portable heat­ing cab­i­net: hot air is sup­plied from the bot­tom up, where the hang­ers are locat­ed. Sig­nif­i­cant pow­er (1 kW), soft fenc­ing of the zone — pro­vide express dry­ing. Stored fold­ed.

Dis­ad­van­tage: small pay­load — 10 kg.

Radiator mounted

An attempt to effi­cient­ly use the avail­able heat with­out crash­ing into the heat­ing cir­cuit. Dry­ing things is accel­er­at­ed, but the dimen­sions are lim­it­ed, con­vec­tion wors­ens, bat­tery effi­cien­cy decreas­es. There is a dan­ger of overdry­ing del­i­cate fab­rics up to red tan marks.

Plas­tic hooks will not scratch the radi­a­tor, heat up less than met­al ones, but are less durable. How­ev­er, plas­tic is enough for an aux­il­iary dry­er. Seri­ous sam­ples are hung on a heat­ed tow­el rail, for exam­ple, Klaus by Arreda­men­ti.

No. 8. Production material

When choos­ing a clothes dry­er, the mate­r­i­al of its exe­cu­tion plays a deci­sive role, affect­ing the dura­bil­i­ty, strength and resis­tance to mois­ture. Among the most pop­u­lar options, we high­light:

• alu­minum dry­ers light, but may not be very sta­ble. Over time, alu­minum turns black and starts to stain things, so man­u­fac­tur­ers have learned to cov­er it poly­mer lay­er. This tech­nique allows you to get rid of all the short­com­ings, how­ev­er, until a crack or chip appears on the coat­ing;

  

• stain­less steel — an ide­al ver­sion of the dry­er, both the sup­port­ing ele­ments of the struc­ture and the strings. The mate­r­i­al does not rust, it is durable and strong. Among the minus­es is a lot of weight (for floor dry­ers, by the way, this means increased sta­bil­i­ty) and cost;

  

• plas­tic dry­ers light, cheap, do not oxi­dize, but short-lived. As a rule, only com­pact portable, mount­ed or wall-mount­ed mod­els are made of plas­tic, which are designed for dry­ing light prod­ucts. Floor dry­ers are less often made of plas­tic, but hang­ing a set of bed linen and heavy sweaters on them will not work;

  

• wood­en dry­ers look good, but not very prac­ti­cal. In order for them to retain their orig­i­nal appear­ance for a long time, they will have to be reg­u­lar­ly cov­ered with pro­tec­tive sub­stances;

  

• com­bined mod­els.

Strings for dry­ing clothes can be made of thick, strong thread or fish­ing line, an alter­na­tive is steel or alu­minum tubes, which are bet­ter because they do not leave creas­es on clothes.

Mounted

Wall dry­ers are designed for dry­ing small laun­dry. They are installed on the sides of bath­tubs, bal­conies, radi­a­tors.

Nika for bathtub 10 m

Advan­tages

• Light
• Com­pact
• Prac­tice
• It is used to dry clothes with­out spin­ning.

Flaws

• Only suit­able for small items

Prac­ti­cal unfold­ing func­tion. The rail sys­tem allows the wash water to drain into the tub. Espe­cial­ly use­ful when hand wash­ing del­i­cate items. Dimen­sions 61*71*92 cm with rails 10 m long. Weighs less than 2 kg and has a load capac­i­ty of 10 kg wet clothes. This mod­el can also be used as an alter­na­tive to the basic dry­er.

gimi hinged Radio

Advan­tages

• High qual­i­ty
• Com­fort­able
• Adjustable brack­ets
• Ide­al for dry­ing small items.

Flaws

Prac­ti­cal dry­er for small items or shoes. Thanks to the adjustable han­dles, it can also be placed on the edge of bal­conies, bath­tubs, doors and radi­a­tors. Made of met­al and plas­tic, easy to assem­ble. Dimen­sions 35 * 52 * 18 cm, weight only 500 g. Num­ber of rods 5, work­ing length 3 m.

No. 9. The main characteristics of the clothes dryer

When buy­ing a clothes dry­er, it is worth con­sid­er­ing such impor­tant char­ac­ter­is­tics as:

• com­mon work sur­face — this is the length of all the rods of the dry­er in expand­ed form. The high­er this indi­ca­tor, the more mas­sive and expen­sive the mod­el will be;
• num­ber of bars — an indi­ca­tor that affects the width of the dry­er;
• num­ber of tiers. Tiered dry­ers allow you to place a decent amount of laun­dry in a small space, they save space, but cost a lot. Floor dry­ers can have up to 4 tiers;

  

• max­i­mum load depends on the type of con­struc­tion and the mate­ri­als used, when choos­ing this para­me­ter, you should pay increased atten­tion so that the prod­uct will serve you as long as pos­si­ble. Sim­ple wall mod­els can with­stand, as a rule, 5–10 kg of linen, wall-ceil­ing “vines” and fold­ing floor mod­els — 20–25 kg;
• among addi­tion­al options dry­ers worth high­light­ing trans­port rollers, which facil­i­tate the move­ment of heavy floor struc­tures. Wheels are made of rub­ber, rub­ber and plas­tic. Rub­ber wheels can leave marks on the floor, plas­tic ones are unsta­ble to mechan­i­cal dam­age, so rub­ber-coat­ed plas­tic rollers are the best choice. Wheels must be pro­vid­ed fix­a­tiveso that the dry­er is sta­ble and does not roll away. Use­ful addi­tions also include spe­cial com­part­ments for dry­ing shoeshold­ers for hang­ers, pro­tec­tion against acci­den­tal clos­ing (pro­vid­ed by latch­es), as well as the func­tion of instal­la­tion on the bath, which is imple­ment­ed through spe­cial devices on the legs of the dry­er.

  

Principle of operation

The prin­ci­ple of oper­a­tion of elec­tri­cal devices:

• Non-con­tact devices equipped with spe­cial infrared sen­sors that are trig­gered when you place your hands under the work area. The degree of sen­si­tiv­i­ty of the sen­sor is adjust­ed using the con­trol device.

Such dry­ers sig­nif­i­cant­ly save the reserve of the mechan­i­cal engine of the device due to auto­mat­ic oper­a­tion.

• Con­tact dry­ers are actu­at­ed by a but­ton and work accord­ing to the set timer. The devices are eas­i­ly adjust­ed to the desired oper­at­ing mode, reg­u­late the tem­per­a­ture of the hot air sup­ply and the oper­at­ing time.

No. 10. What else to consider when choosing?

It would seem that every­thing has already been said, but in the end some more tipswhich will help you find the per­fect dry­er in all respects:

• when choos­ing focus on the place where the dry­er will be installed. For bal­conies, dry­ers “lianas” are excel­lent, they are also appro­pri­ate in the bath­room on a par with wall-mount­ed dry­ers, and floor struc­tures are more suit­able for liv­ing rooms;
• pay atten­tion to the qual­i­ty of exe­cu­tion of all fas­ten­ers and ropes;
• the dry­er must be kept clean and wiped reg­u­lar­ly with a cloth or sponge;
• among major clothes dry­er man­u­fac­tur­ers Let’s sin­gle out the Swiss com­pa­ny Euro­gold with its widest assort­ment, the Ital­ian Fop­pape­dret­ti, as well as Gimi, Haus­mann, Leifheit, Mar­ta, Zal­ger and Nika.

  

The design of the dry­er also requires atten­tion, and in this regard, a pleas­ant sur­prise awaits us: in stores you can find both fair­ly sim­ple, con­ser­v­a­tive mod­els, as well as mod­ern high-tech style dry­ers, the appear­ance of which you can not even guess at once about the pur­pose.

The arti­cle was writ­ten for the site.

Tags:Balcony, Bath­room

What is the choice based on?

The prin­ci­ples of how to choose a clothes dry­er imply the fol­low­ing:

1. How often the dry­er will be used.
2. Dimen­sions and weight of the laun­dry to be dried.
3. Type, size of the room and its ven­ti­la­tion fea­tures.
4. Dry­ing method.
5. Body mate­r­i­al.
6. Price.

A wide range of mod­els allows you to choose the best clothes dry­er in terms of func­tions, cor­re­spond­ing to the apart­ment space and needs.

Length

The length of the dry­ers can be dis­tin­guished by two para­me­ters: total and for one work­ing rod. If we con­sid­er the gen­er­al para­me­ter for the dry­ing cloth, then it depends on the spe­cif­ic type of prod­uct:

The length of the dry­ers can be dis­tin­guished by two para­me­ters: total and for one work­ing rod. If we con­sid­er the gen­er­al para­me­ter for the dry­ing cloth, then it depends on the spe­cif­ic type of prod­uct:

• For sus­pend­ed, this char­ac­ter­is­tic is not applic­a­ble due to the design.
• For dry­ers per bat­tery, the max­i­mum fig­ure is 3.1 m;
• For floor mod­els, the max­i­mum is 20 m;
• Wall mod­els are pre­sent­ed with a total footage of up to 5 m;
• For ceil­ing units, the entire dry­ing sur­face is a max­i­mum of 15 m.

These indi­ca­tors are com­plete­ly depen­dent on the spe­cif­ic mod­el and its device. In this case, when choos­ing, it is worth rely­ing on two fac­tors — the pos­si­bil­i­ty of instal­la­tion and the free sur­face for place­ment.

Convenient place in the apartment for drying clothes

A bal­cony or log­gia is con­sid­ered the best option, since the device will be hard­ly notice­able there, but at the same time the air will have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to cir­cu­late more inten­sive­ly, which will speed up the dry­ing process. Bal­cony con­di­tions are incon­ve­nient because in win­ter, in a poor­ly insu­lat­ed or unheat­ed room, laun­dry can dry much longer or even freeze com­plete­ly. If pos­si­ble, it is bet­ter to choose a warm space. To install a ceil­ing-mount­ed clothes dry­er on a bal­cony, it must be at least insu­lat­ed and glazed, and ide­al­ly heat­ed.

If this is not pos­si­ble, then instal­la­tion can be done in the room or in the bath­room. But in the room ven­ti­la­tion is much worse, more par­ti­cles of dust and dirt will fall on the linen. In addi­tion, the humid­i­ty in the room will increase due to fumes, which can be crit­i­cal for low-qual­i­ty wall­pa­per or, for exam­ple, wood­en fin­ish­ing mate­ri­als. In the bath­room, by virtue of its pur­pose, there are ris­ing lay­ers of steam, which slows down the dry­ing process. But if there are no oth­er options, then it will also work.

How to place the dryer correctly

Before buy­ing a dry­er, you need to decide on the loca­tion. It is nec­es­sary to have clear dimen­sions of the device, so that lat­er there will be no dif­fi­cul­ties with instal­la­tion. If the apart­ment allows, then you can buy a floor dry­er, because it is more prac­ti­cal and durable.

If the space is not wide, then a fold­ing mod­el will do. After use, it is fold­ed and put away for stor­age. When buy­ing a fold­ing dry­er, it is bet­ter to learn how the mech­a­nism works in order to be sure of its dura­bil­i­ty. Because you will have to lay out the device often.

If the dry­er is intend­ed for a small room, then it is bet­ter to lim­it your­self to a floor dry­er that is installed ver­ti­cal­ly. Plas­tic prod­ucts are most suit­able for the bath­room because they will not rust from damp­ness.

In addi­tion, they are light­weight and com­pact­ly placed in a small space. If you plan to move the dry­er, then you need to choose a mod­el with roller wheels.

Factors to consider when buying

1. A cheap design breaks down quick­ly, so it’s bet­ter to look at a more expen­sive coun­ter­part. So you can save mon­ey even though the dry­er is more expen­sive.
2. If the device will be placed in a room with high humid­i­ty, then it is bet­ter to buy a plas­tic or stain­less steel dry­er.
3. It is nec­es­sary to clar­i­fy how much weight the dry­er can with­stand, because for a large fam­i­ly it is bet­ter to take a durable mod­el.
4. In order for the fix­ture to fit well into the inte­ri­or of the room, you need to choose neu­tral col­ors or give pref­er­ence to aes­thet­ic options.
5. It is advis­able to inspect the assem­bly and exten­sion mech­a­nisms even in the store, so that lat­er there are no mis­un­der­stand­ings and have an idea of ​​​​what to change them for in case of break­age.