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Vic

Joined: 16 Feb 2005
Posts: 387
Location: Sherborne, Dorset

Posted: Tue May 27, 08 11:10 am Post subject: Ceiling Clothes Airer

We're definitely going to get a woodburner (yay) and I suddenly thought, to use all the heat as efficiently as possible, we should be thinking about getting one of those classic ceiling clothes airers (I know that there's a more accurate name for them but I can't think what!)

Does anyone have one? How efficient are they? Where did you get them from and roughly how much would they cost??

Questions, questions...

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue May 27, 08 11:11 am Post subject:
Blacksmith makes them I'm pretty sure....

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Tue May 27, 08 11:12 am Post subject:
I've got one. They work nicely (providing you've got high ceilings) Argos (shop, not location), I think. About £50. Oh, and I think they're Lazy Betties.

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Tue May 27, 08 11:17 am Post subject:
If Blacksmith doesn't make them there are always ads for them in the back of Country Living - www.sheilamaid.com , www.castinstyle.co.uk , www.gnu-racks.com . Green Rosie's husband made one from wood - there's a thread about it somewhere or PM Rosie.

Spruengli

Joined: 12 Jul 2006
Posts: 537
Location: Dorking(ish)

Posted: Tue May 27, 08 2:05 pm Post subject:
We've had one for the last 8 years - a GNU (stands for something, but always makes me think of a large hairy animal ). Its fantastic - even used without any heat underneath, it's possible to get clothes (1) out of the way and (2) dry, with minimum effort - love it!!! Original cost was about £50 for a 5 foot long one with 6 'rungs' (if thats what you call them..)

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Tue May 27, 08 2:08 pm Post subject:
They're brilliant. There's one above the woodburner in the parlour and we're putting another in the kitchen.

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 18409

Posted: Tue May 27, 08 2:19 pm Post subject:
Just don't do what the previous owner of my house did, and fix it to the ceiling above the Rayburn. Yes, it's warm there, but that's also the cooker, so drying clothes are likely to end up smelling of fried onions etc. And low hanging stuff gets in the cook's way.

lottie

Joined: 11 Aug 2005
Posts: 5059
Location: ceredigion

Posted: Tue May 27, 08 3:03 pm Post subject:
You can often pick up the metal ends at carboots and put your own slats in---I've come across 2 sets like that dead cheap.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Tue May 27, 08 3:08 pm Post subject:

gil wrote:

Just don't do what the previous owner of my house did, and fix it to the ceiling above the Rayburn.

Yes, it's warm there, but that's also the cooker, so drying clothes are likely to end up smelling of fried onions etc. And low hanging stuff gets in the cook's way.

Ma's is above her aga. Sweaters smelling of jam are the smell of home

You can buy them in Argos for about £15 I think.

Vic

Joined: 16 Feb 2005
Posts: 387
Location: Sherborne, Dorset

Posted: Tue May 27, 08 4:16 pm Post subject:
Thank you all!! Lazy Betty - what a great name! Very taken by GNU website - I have now spent most of the afternoon singing 'I'm a gnu, spelt G-N-U, the gnicest work of gnature in the zoo'... Shall check out Argos as well.

woodsprite

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Posts: 2943
Location: North Herefordshire

Posted: Tue May 27, 08 5:30 pm Post subject:
Mine was always above my aga and my boys used to love their 'sunday roast' school uniforms on a Monday morning. Happy days

Brandon

Joined: 11 Apr 2006
Posts: 114
Location: mid wales

Posted: Fri May 30, 08 9:10 pm Post subject:
knocked on of these up in the autumn, hung at the top of the stairwell, it dries things very well indeed, it is 8' long, took about an hour to make and hang, and cost £10 tops.

Mary2773

Joined: 20 Jun 2008
Posts: 1

Posted: Fri Jun 20, 08 10:49 am Post subject: Pulleymaid Clothes Airer

Ive had one of these traditional clothes airers for years and unless I’m mistaken there called a Pulleymaid, or at least that’s the name of the company where I got mine from. They cost anything from £35.00 upwards depending on the length and can be ordered from www.pulleymaid.com.

[img]http//www.pulleymaid.com/images/Airer13.jpg[/img]

In answer to your question, yes they really do work. Not only can I dry a hole load of washing in no time at all, but unlike the free standing clothes airers, everything is kept out of the way in the ceiling space, so I’m not constantly tripping over it. Also I can save a fortune without using the tumble dryer and there good for the environment too.[/img]

wizz

Joined: 06 Apr 2005
Posts: 561

Posted: Sat Jun 21, 08 8:15 pm Post subject:

Best bit of restoration/recycling we ever did. We retrieved ours from its ?original position in the covered shared alleyway between our old terraced house and the neighbouring one. It had obviously been hanging there for years and when we first moved in both the racks were hanging there. I claimed ours when one disappeared and i realised that the neighbours must have "claimed" one. (I think i had been a bit hesitant before because it seemed to be a piece of the history/heritage of the house/terrace.)

We slapped a bit of paint on it and have used it on a daily basis ever since. I can honestly say that I consider it an essential piece of household equipment! It's followed us around to a couple of different houses now and is in the kitchen, not far from the rayburn-type range, but not directly over it. To be honest never really thought about the foody smell issue - never seem to have had a problem.

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