If you don't have access to an outside space to dry your clothes when it's sunny, then you'll know the struggle of having to do all your drying on clothes airers. While they are effective at drying clothes, the process can take hours and can even leave your garments smelling musty as the water dries.
But according to one cleaning guru online, there's an easier way to dry your clothes indoors - and it doesn't involve breaking the bank on energy-guzzling appliances like tumble dryers.
A man named Geo insisted that all you need to do is hang your clothes on your airer as normal and then point a regular desk fan at the airer to help take away some of the moisture in the air.
Geo, who posts on TikTok under the username @geo.cleans, said: "If you rely on drying your clothes using a clothes horse, listen up. Instead of waiting hours for your clothes to dry just use a desktop fan.
"By circulating the air you reduce the humidity around your clothes which dries your clothes even faster. You'll never have to deal with musty-smelling clothes again."
Some commenters on the video questioned Geo on the trick, as they said it wasn't ideal to be switching on an electrical appliance during the cost of living crisis.
But Geo insisted running a fan only costs 2p an hour, compared to his tumble dryer, which costs him 17p an hour.
He wrote in a comment: "I've got a smart meter and can confirm the fan uses less than 2p per hour. A drier is around 17p."
Another person came to his defence, writing: "It costs literally pennies a year to run a fan like this, calm down people."
While the fan trick does work, other commenters suggested investing in an electric dehumidifier, as they claimed it was "cheaper and safer", and would still remove moisture from the air to help clothes dry faster.
One person wrote: "A dehumidifier is better if you can afford one! we use one to control the bathroom steaming up, and it's a lifesaver for drying clothes quickly indoors."
While another added: "What you need to buy is a dehumidifier. They also come with a clothes drying setting and can be left on 24/7 and are very cheap to run. Cheaper and safer."
Meanwhile, one grandad previously shared the fan trick when he claimed that it's a common misconception that clothes need warm air to dry - as they can actually dry faster with cold air.
Graham Prosser said that because we're so used to taking clothes out of a warm tumble dryer, we often associate dry with warm, so cold clothes can confuse our brains and make us think they're still wet - when in reality, cold air can dry clothes just as effectively.
He added: "You want your washing really dry, and people feel their garments to see if they're dry. But we're accustomed, indoors, to feeling the warmth of the garments as we often put them on radiators.
"Most people I think will be accustomed to feeling if garments are warm, rather than dry, so if they're cold they think the clothes are still wet."
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