Martin Lewis has shared a cheap hack for drying clothes quickly without putting the heating on.
The finance adviser has outlined the ways you can dry clothes at home for a pittance without having to run your entire central heating system. His method can cost as little as 7p.
The Money Saving Expert founder was speaking on the latest episode of The Martin Lewis podcast when he was asked by a listener about how to save money on drying clothes. The consumer guru explained that by using a dehumidifier instead of central heating, you could dry clothes at home for just 7p per hour, apart from the 'initial capital outlay' of buying one.
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He said: "Many dehumidifiers have different wattages, the one I checked out was 200 watts. Once we know it's 200 watts and we know a Kilowatt is 1,000 watts which is how electricity tends to be priced, we know this is a fifth of a kilowatt. And you pay roughly 34p per kw per hour.
"A fifth is 7p so you're going to pay roughly 7p per hour to run a dehumidifier at 200 watts assuming it uses full power the whole time. Which is generally far far cheaper than putting the heating on. If a dehumidifier does work for you it will definitely have lower electricity bills but of course you do have the initial capital outlay of buying a dehumidifier and see how that works for you."
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