After walking in the rain or wet snow, boots and boots need to be dried. Usually the shoes are placed on top or leaned against a hot heating radiator. The consequences are fairly predictable: after several procedures, the sole comes off or the skin warps. Shoes categorically spoiled, and the mood too. Fortunately, not everything is so bad.
How to deal with the problem?
Wet shoes can cause fungus development. If you wear wet shoes, a cold or a runny nose is inevitable.
The easiest way to avoid such troubles is to install a battery dryer. This is a removable plastic or wooden grill on which damp boots or sneakers are placed on top. A hot radiator, without touching the sole material directly, cannot be harmful. The natural circulation of heated air promotes quality drying in a few hours.
Ionic, electric, ultrasonic, antifungal and others
To understand the devices presented by the market, we list some of their features.
- A floor electric shoe dryer is capable of accepting several pairs of boots or shoes at the same time. This is not the smallest design, which takes a certain place in the hallway.
- Among the mini-options designed for one pair, there are equipped with a fan, ultrasonic, ultraviolet.
- The flexible universal shoe dryer has an insulated heating element inside that fits inside the shoe.
- Induction rugs that take up little space and are completely safe.
The choice of a particular design depends on the number of family members, the size of the hallway and the preferences of the owners. In some cases, you can independently make a very decent and convenient device for this purpose.
Unusual universal homemade shoe dryer
Why spoil your favorite boots on a hot battery, when you can make a very decent device from a computer fan. To work, you will need the following elements:
- unnecessary working cooler;
- meter corrugated tube;
- 12-volt power supply from a computer;
- extension and connecting wires;
- electric box;
- several screws;
- electric plug.
Before assembly, you need to cut a round hole in the box to the size of the cooler. We divide the corrugation into two parts and for them we also make slots in the electrical box. The cooler must be inserted and fixed with self-tapping screws so that air is pumped into the attached hoses. All gaps must be sealed with rubber gaskets to direct airflows in the right direction. The result was a shoe dryer. With their own hands, both ends of the corrugation are inserted into the shoes, power is supplied to the device. This original design is able to work even from a car cigarette lighter, which is very important for country trips, in the country, on fishing or hunting.
Custom use of familiar items
In the warm season, sneakers and sneakers can simply be hung by the laces on a clothesline. Sometimes they are fastened with clothespins. The breeze helps moisture to weather. In an apartment you have to use home appliances. In urgent cases, even blowing a hairdryer helps.
A do-it-yourself shoe dryer can be made from the usual “winding up” - a home heater with a fan. Wet steam is placed on a low stool. The shoes blown with hot air are brought to a normal state in 2-3 hours. It is strongly not recommended to leave the heater on for a long time (at night) without supervision - in order to avoid a sudden circuit.
Clumps of crumpled newspaper sheets placed inside the boots quickly absorb moisture. The inconvenience is the need for regular (after an hour and a half) replacement of moistened paper. If you combine these two methods: pieces of newspaper and blowing around with “windmill”, the result will be achieved much faster.
Apartment stove-heater - dryer for shoes
With your own hands you can create a completely original and useful device for the designated purpose. You will need to stock up on medium sized river pebbles in advance. Then a wooden frame is prepared - a frame with low walls that looks like a box for vegetables. The bottom will be an oil heater laid on its side. From below it is mounted on a frame with legs, and on top of it, cooked pebbles are laid out on it.
Such a device can always be kept on, as it has a temperature controller. Wet shoes are placed on heated pebbles and kept until completely dry.
The size of the structure depends on the dimensions of the radiator. Self-made shoe dryer, can be used. It will fit several pairs that are not threatened by either overheating or drying out.