PEETAdvantage Plus 4-Shoe Electric Shoe and Boot Dryer with Fan & Heat Settings, Made in the USA

I never thought my favorite household item would be a boot dryer. In Kodiak, AK it rains a lot. We also spend a lot of time in the rivers & at the beach and the kids play soccer & do everything else in the rain too.After researching all the options, I bought the PEET Dryer Advantage M07F 4 Shoe Electric Express Dryer. We have a family of four with at least 4 pairs of wet shoes/boots per day. We use ours almost every day & it works without fail.The timer on this dryer is nice to have and the option of heat/no heat drying is a great feature. After pouring out standing water from my kids' boots, I put them on the dryer and they're dry in 1-2 hours. It works well enough that we can dry the whole family's boots in under 4 hours. As a previous reviewer said, if you're drying just one pair of boots, you can remove the boot attachments from two of the posts & use a book or something similar to cover them, forcing all the air to your single pair of shoes. It would be nice if you could set it for one pair or for two. But this is really not a deal breaker.When your shoes stay wet, they tend to smell REALLY sour. By using this dryer, it takes away all the nasty smell too. Also great for drying gloves or warming them up before you head out into the cold.This unit is really quiet. I use it in my laundry room with the door open (you can't hear it anywhere else in the house.)I bought a pair of extenders for $10 for drying taller boots (like waders.) PEET Dryer H2-B Two 12-inch DryPort Boot Extension Attachment Those are worth the extra money. Thank you, PEET, for an amazing product. And thanks to Amazon for fast shipping to Kodiak!!

Well, I bought this unit (from Amazon.com) in 2011 along with the optional boot extensions and the glove attachments. I use this unit religiously every winter to dry out my boots, socks, and gloves after shoveling snow.Although this unit has been intentionally designed to not put out a lot of heat (as not to damage gloves and footwear), it still does a good job drying out my boots and gloves. Although the glove attachment looks a bit odd, it actually does a pretty good job ensuring that each finger is properly dried. BTW, I have only used the heated air setting, as I have found no need to use the non-heat setting.Like some other reviewers have mentioned, it would've been nice if this unit came with some caps, so that one could use only one side of the unit instead of being forced to use all four openings all at once. For me, this was easily rectified after I finally located some plastic caps which fit and work well. Since the force of warm air is not that strong, the openings can even be sealed-off with some cardboard (cut to size) and affixed with tape...if one so desires.Other reviewers have noted that their hairdryer would do a better job. Sure, your blow dryer will no doubt 'kick out' a lot more air at a higher temperature, but that will ruin your footwear, gloves, and your blow dryer in the process. A warm steady air flow over an extended period of time works best.Since the unit remains on whenever it's plugged into an outlet, I have found a away to actually 'fix' this. I actually have mine plugged into a switchable wall plug adapter, so that I can just switch it on when it's needed and switch it off when I'm done. These switchable plug adapters are available from your local hardware store for about three dollars. The adapter's red toggle switch lights-up whenever power is being supplied to an appliance...cheers.

Drying boots and gloves (have glove attachment)

Works good but I wish it had a setting to just set the max time with one click instead of hitting the up arrow a bunch of times

I do obstacle course races. My shoes get wet man, real wet. Like go run through a lake then run through about 6 more miles of mud. When you finish that take your shoes off and put a garden hose in them and rinse them out. That's the kind of thing that happens to my shoes. For drying I took the insoles out and dried them separately, wrapping them in a small towel and just standing on them for a little. Move to a dry spot on the towel and repeat. The shoes were put on the dryer for 4 hours with heat. The two open ends were capped off with 2" PVC pipe caps (perfect fit). After 4 hours the shoes were virtually dry except for maybe some dampness on the outside area of the heels of the shoe and that's splitting hairs probably. So I put them on there for another 2 hours and uncapped the two vents I covered before and propped the insoles up against the open vents and rotated the insoles every once in a while. I may have added another hour just because I was fascinated with it, thinking about those poor saps putting on wet shoes in the morning and getting blisters on their feet. At any rate, next day = dry shoes. And I put them on and went right back into the lake for the Sunday race.Some other thoughts: My shoes are quality trail running shoes. They are designed to shed water and dry quickly, that may be aiding the drying process. I had all night to dry my shoes so I could have dialed up 4 hours every 4 hours until the next day if I had to. That said, I've sat them out in the sun before and they didn't dry anywhere near as quickly as with this dryer. Apparently that isn't recommended anyway. Neither is a clothes dryer. And noise? I spent three years walking past engine rooms, it's a matter of perspective. It didn't bother me at all. I can't really speak for the scent, my shoes smell (see above as to why). I believe they have some kind of scent attachment though in case you want to be a diva and have pretty smelling shoes. If you do OCR or trail running you need this and it needs you. And when you go beast mode on your next race, remember you heard it here first... Matter of fact, I'm putting a Spartan Race sticker on it..