The three tiers are flat, which means you can either use each rack to fold over an item of clothing or, if you only have a few pieces to dry, you can lay them flat over an entire tier.

Another option for speeding the clothes-drying process is to run a portable dehumidifier in the same room. Economical and energy-efficient, this electric dryer costs mere pennies per hour to run, making it a savvy alternative to traditional tumble dryers. It also doesn’t hold as many clothes as the usual airers, although there’s no denying it’s quicker at drying than some of the others.

It is designed to hold up to 5kg of washing and can be configured to have up to three tiers, as well as one pyramid-shaped tier for draping large clothes and towels over. You might find they get a bit bashed up with frequent use, which is a shame on a relatively expensive dryer. While heated airers use less electricity per hour than a tumble dryer, they take longer to dry the clothes. I was hooked on eating Sainsbury's cooking Chorizo at 2am: BRYONY GORDON was addicted to drugs and alcohol before finally managing to get herself sober. The laundry airer indoor is the perfect home appliance for speeding up laundry drying if it's taking too long to dry clothes due to cold weather or household demands.

If drying clothes is taking too long, whether caused by cold weather or demands of a large family household, this indoor electric airer is the perfect home appliance to speed up laundry drying. In the world of heated clothes airers, that’s really pretty good – the cover certainly does its job. As with all of these airers, it arrives assembled - so all you need to do is simply fold it out, plug it in and switch it on. I found it easy enough to slot the contraption together the first time I took it out of the surprisingly small box it arrived in, with no tools required. They can also be made L-shaped, so that you can use the Minky against the wall and only hang clothes on one side of it - a nice touch.

This was an unusual style of drier we’d not seen before, with a - rather loud - fan attached to a tower from which you hang your clothes up.