It’s now just over a year ago since I wrote a post about repairing a Lakeland Dry:Soon clothes airer as part of the Repair Cafe which I’ve started in my church.
The response to this post has been nothing short of amazing – through an initial post on Mumsnet and then writing about it on here, I’ve seen a massive response with lots of people describing successful repairs which they have done. I’ve also been able to help people who for various reasons haven’t been able to tackle it themselves, and I now offer a postal repair service (please do comment below if you are interested and I’ll get in touch).
I’ve lost count now of how many I’ve done myself, but it must be about 20 (as I started off with 20 spare capacitors!), and I have been told of at least as many more success stories from people who have followed the instructions themselves and I’m sure there are many more which I’ve not heard about.
It is such a common fault that it’s either a design issue, or perhaps a bad batch of manufacture, but either way it seems to regularly happen just outside of the manufacturers warranty and Lakeland show no interest in helping and just advise people to throw them away, which would be at a real environmental (not to mention financial) cost.
It’s been so exciting for me to have been involved in this, and I certainly had no idea when I started tinkering with the first one what it would lead on. So a big ‘thank you’ from me to everyone who has got in contact with me about this. Please keep the reports coming, and do let me know if you’d like help with a repair.
Meanwhile we have had lots of interesting items come through the cafe and I’ve learned loads about how to repair all sorts of things. So I will continue posting whenever I can with details of what I’ve learned and hopefully this will also be of interest.
Universal Discovery Methodology 
our dryer is still going strong after your repair. Thanks very much and please keep up the good work.
Great to hear, thanks for letting me know!
our dry soon is deceased! We have removed the component with your guidance. Can we send to you for repair?
Donna
donnanash49@gmail.com
Hi Donna – yes you certainly can, I’ll send you an email with the details
Hi can I send you mine to repair please. I have bought a new airer. However I would love to gift the repaired one to my son!
Certainly! I’ll drop you an email
Hi,
Our airer has recently stopped working and with a newborn, going into the winter months, would love to get it fixed ASAP.
Please could you send me the details?
Yes of course, I’ll send you an email about it
Hi, this sounds like exactly our DrySoon fault, if you are still offering a fixing service that would eb amazing! Would you be able to send me some details so I can send it to you? Thanks!
Hi, yes of course, I’ll be in touch by email
Hi, just unscrewed mine. However, I’m hesitant to mess with it.
I live in Nottingham. Would it be plausible to ask if you could help me out?
Pam
Hello gw0udm
I have got a faulty Lakeland 24909, but I do not have a soldering iron. The last soldering I did was at school, a considerable time ago. Do you offer a repair service?
Thx, Keith
Hi Keith, yes happy to help, I’ll send you an email
Hi, unfortunately it’s a bit too far to do anything in person but I will send you an email and see if I can help further
Thank you.
Hello,
Would you be able to send me some details about your postal repair service.
Our airer has long been displaying this issue, but we managed to hack it by managing to press the mode button before the beeping started. There was a trick to it, but it’s unhackable now!
Many thanks
Hi,
Please could I have details of the postal repair service email to me?
Many thanks
Hi, yes happy to do so – will be in touch. Sadly once these start failing they inevitably get worse but I’m confident we can get it going again
hello, you kindly offered to help on a comment I made on your post but I’m not sure how I DM you, please could you send me a private message? Thank you!
Hi Holly, I did send you an email but I’ve had a few problems with them going into spam lately. Can you check your spam? If you can’t see anything reply on here and I’ll try again
Hello,
I hope you are well. I see that you offered a postal service for repairs to the Lakeland Dry Soon clothes dryer. I have managed to extract the circuit but replacing the capacitor looks beyond me so can I send it to you please? My email is rammdave@hotmail.com