Putting a tumble dryer into a rented flat - landlady's response

Fire_Fox

IlonaRN wrote: »

And I live in a 2-bed with large rooms. Storage heaters don't heat it properly, and if I were to hang things up, larger things would take a week to dry!
For me personally in my current situation, it's tumbledrier all the way! (Well, an efficient washer/drier

My laundry doesn't even take a week to dry in the depths of winter and I barely use the heating. If your laundry isn't drying you either haven't spread it out enough or the air is saturated or both. Put the laundry in the bedroom with the door shut and the window open and it should dry quickly.

The airer I have I can't find on the IKEA website at present but I *think* it was an Antonius and it cost £23-ish. It stands around as tall as a person, takes up just just two square feet of floor space (less than a tumble dryer), holds two loads of laundry easily and folds flat when not in use. :T It's one of those dull purchases that noticeably improves your life in a flat!!

iamana1ias

PasturesNew wrote: »

There was only one of you though. The OP has three people using the space/moving about. Washing kept indoors, during winter, can take up to 4 days to dry, meaning you're limited to how much you can wash at any one time.

Was there? I wonder who that 6' 3" bloke was that was there every day was then!

(There was only one of me that ever did any washing though :rotfl:)

PasturesNew wrote: »

Maybe you live in a dry area, but lots of the country have high humidity/are damp areas. I've never lived anywhere where jeans/towels/quilts would dry in less than 3-4 days, even in the summer if kept indoors.

At the time we lived in Manchester! :rotfl:

PasturesNew wrote: »

Also, your studio couldn't have been THAT tiny... you had a bath AND a bed. When I lived in a studio it was a small shower and a sofabed.

I had a bed instead of a sofa. You couldn't have fitted anything else in the room and there was probably 3 feet of space around each side of the bed. The bathroom had a shower over it but barely any space to dry yourself (unless you stood in the bath).

custardy

adults use hardly any clothes,once you bring a kid into the equation your washing goes through the roof
we can pretty much manage here for drying space and have our garden for good days
in a small flat it would be a different matter

iamana1ias

custardy wrote: »

adults use hardly any clothes,once you bring a kid into the equation your washing goes through the roof
we can pretty much manage here for drying space and have our garden for good days
in a small flat it would be a different matter

If tumble dryers were essential for babies surely they'd be born with them

custardy

iamana1ias wrote: »

If tumble dryers were essential for babies surely they'd be born with them

what like they are born with clothes?

iamana1ias

custardy wrote: »

what like they are born with clothes?

But clothes aren't truly essential, are they? Really?

custardy

iamana1ias wrote: »

But clothes aren't truly essential, are they? Really?

ask the naked rambler
shall we just forgo clothes for our kids and get them into the prison systems early?

iamana1ias

I fear we are off topic

getmore4less

If there is a supplied washer dryer why not investigate why that is not working properly, get that fixed or changed by the LL.

custardy

getmore4less wrote: »

If there is a supplied washer dryer why not investigate why that is not working properly, get that fixed or changed by the LL.

compared to a separate tumble drier,many combined units are poor from new
our last ariston was poor from new,the new hotpoint is much better