Drying clothes

dori2o

With the weather as it is at the moment, and not having a working dryer, can anyone suggest the best way of dryiong clothes in the house.

We have 2 clothes maidens but the take up so much room, every radiator has those hook over things on them. We used to have a shower rail in the bathroom but since we did it up and built a shower room there is none to hang clothes off.

Can anyone suggest anything.

Fire_Fox

This holds two loads, only takes up two square feet of space and folds away when not in use.
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/80119043

Squish_21

Struggling to dry my washing too at the mo. Would love a tumble dryer but dont have the room.

I put the washing on the rotary line today but it came back in just as wet.

bumma_2

I have several over-door towel rails that I use for drying clothes. Each one only holds three full size items, but they don't take up any floor space and only make each door a few inches thicker.

danechip

That big !!! fan that you use in the summer. Point it at the washing over the hangers. Even quicker than a clothes line !!!!

TrixieB

I have one of these and can fit one load of heavy stuff or two loads of stuff like tshirts on it, also as it's hanging up to dry, doesn;t always need ironing

maninthestreet

You can get clothes horses that fit across a bath, can't you?

millie

We are lucky enough to have a garage all down the side of our house that is accessed from the kitchen. I have one of those pull out washing lines with 4 lines on it and dry all of our washing in there as we do not use it for the car anyway. It dries in a day out there.

Powerful_Pierre

Drying clothes inside is probably the biggest cause of condensation problems in residential property - wet walls - mould in corners and on clothes etc. Where do you think the water from the clothes goes? It goes into the atmosphere in the property initially which is only able to support a given amount of vapour at a given temperature. It makes no difference where in the property you do this as the water vapour quickly distributes itself uniformally throughout a property before discipating out through the walls,cracks etc. As the temperature falls at night the air cools and it can no longer support the water vapour so it is dumped as condensation on cool surfaces and if this happens regularly mould will grow and you will get a musty smell which is not damp - it is mould!

Try not to dry clothes inside unless you want a condensation and mould problem - I know it is not easy.

Js_Other_Half

http://www.rotaire.com/ seems to be getting good reviews - it's basically a cover for a rotary dryer which enables washing to be dried even in bad weather.

No personal experience of it though - I hate rotary dryers...lol.

stephensdan

^ I quite like the look of that, it makes a lot of sense