Buying a Cast in Style Kitchen Maid® Clothes airer is one of the most ecological and environmentally friendly solutions you can do for your home and our planet.

Using our clothes airer as a direct replacement to your normal tumble dryer can reduce your carbon foot print by 1.5 tonnes a year and saves you enough in electricity costs to pay for your new clothes airer in 6 months. Don't take our word for it, have a look at the government act on Co2 web site and see for yourself.

Should you wish to position the clothes airer away from the wall it may be necessary to extend the run of the rope across the ceiling so that it may travel to the cleat hook at a right angle as opposed to diagonally from the main pulley.

Our wooden laths have been specially produced in collaboration with our wood supplier, over several years, specifically for our clothes airers. We have developed a special kiln dried technique which removes all the moisture from the red wood pine laths guaranteeing them not to release the tree sap or stains onto your clothes. The wood is deliberately not treated with anything as if it is it can sometimes stain the clothes. We suggest you keep the laths as we send them to you and they will provide many years of service for your airer.

Everything we do to produce our clothes airers has the environment in mind. Our wooden laths come from well managed sustainable redwood pine forests who employ the principle of every tree which is cut down at least one new one is grown to replace it. We are an FSC certified company and our certificate number is showing in the logo above. Our laths are supported by the Forests forever scheme and are approved by the FSC Trademarks who believe in well managed forests.

Yes we are the original manufactures of clothes airers.

We have been making them for about 25 years, not only for ourselves but also for many other companies. Our airers are made in our foundry's in the UK. We use only the highest quality pig iron in keeping with our high British made standard.

Pictured below on the left is Kev who is emptying the furnace into the holding ladle and pictured right is Chris pouring the molten iron into the airer moulds.

Original (Lacquer), White, Black, Green, Blue, Burgundy, Pewter, Ivory and are powder coated to ensure durability.

Powder coating is a special colouring technique which is mainly used on metal as an excellent way to not only colour but provide a very tough protective coating to the metal part. It is sprayed onto the part as a free-flowing dry powder.

The main difference between a conventional liquid paint and a powder coating is that the powder coating does not require a solvent solution to keep the colour in a liquid form, instead it is spray applied electrostatically using the dry powder. The coating is then baked in an oven to cure it under heat. This allows it to flow and form a "skin.".

This process can look very unusual to someone who has never seen it before as the dry powder is usually nearly always white in colour, baking it changes its chemical composition and it changes colour before your eyes to the final colour you want, as it enters the oven.

It is used to create a hard finish that is tougher than conventional paint. Powder coating is mainly used for coating of metals and is perfect for cast iron. It creates a vibrant beautiful colour finish which will enhance the beauty of your clothes airer.

Yes you can. Our clothes airers are perfect for sloping ceilings. The airer must be kept level for correct operation so it simply means that the rope from one end of the airer to the ceiling pulley is longer than the other end, therefore holding the airer level. The only thing you need to consider it that the airer can only be pulled as high as the lowest point on your sloping roof. If this is high enough so as to allow the airer to be pulled up out of the way then it won't be a problem. Ceiling can slope in all sorts of directions but our airer will work with any of them. If you are unsure give us a call on 08443 57 56 54 and we will always help you our.

All of our components are solid cast iron and are powder coated in a choice of colours. Our standard pulleys come with plastic wheels and our deluxe pulleys come with cast iron wheels for a more authentic touch.

The wooden laths are solid natural redwood pine and are produced specially from a renewable source to fit our rack ends. These are supplied untreated and are hand sanded so that they will not snag or stain your clothes. Take a look at our wooden laths section

The rope is 6mm organic cotton lined pulley cord with a nylon core to give it strength and durability. This is a tough rope and is usually more at home on sail yacht but we find is absolutely perfect for our airers as well as giving that traditional look.

Please note that prices are only available to the UK mainland. Scottish highlands and Islands, Northern Ireland and UK Islands are charged at £13.50

Our Kitchen Maid® Clothes Airer comes with everything you will need including:

2 X Cast Iron Rack Ends
4 X Solid Red Woods Pine Laths
1 X Double Pulley
1 X Single Pulley
1 X Sash Cord
1 X Cleat Hook
2 X Screws
2 x Raw plugs
1 X Assembly Instructions

Yes, we have a showroom in Wolverhampton, you are very welcome to come and see us and our full range of products.

Our address is:

Cast in Style
The Old Stables, Lincoln Works,
Lincoln Street,
Wolverhampton,
West Midlands.
WV10 0DX
United Kingdom. 08443 57 56 54

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Opening Hours:

If you require opening hours outside these please ring us on 08443 57 56 54 as we may be able to arrange special opening times.

Yes, we ship to anywhere in the world. Just order from our web site as normal and our order system will calculate your delivery charge once you enter your destination country.

Shipping to other countries can be very expensive. One way to reduce this cost is to order a clothes airer kit without the wooden laths. These include everything you need except the wooden laths which you can usually source in your own country. We can include a small sample of wood which you can request at the time of placing your order in the customer comments section. This will greatly reduce the shipping costs as we don't have to ship the laths which is what makes it expensive to send. Take a look at our kits here