How do you dry your clothes?

carrottopsuk

HappyShopper3 wrote:

I tried that but if it's windy the whole thing comes toppling over! I play it safe, if the washing is indoors no birds can do their business on it and I don't have to keep checking the weather.

oooh Good point, I haven't tried it yet. If I do, it will only be on calm sunny days ;-)

Zed42

Last yr I stumbled across MSE ... until then I was trying not to use my TD overly, but still used it a heck of a lot.

Last Winter, I started to think about the cost of the TD and I managed to only use it a handful of times (literally) and that was to do DH, mine and DD's clothes ... and her nappies .....

Instead to dry it all ... I used a very long line in the garden .. it dries quicker than a rotary line in my experience, a clothes line in the utility room (one of those that you lower from the ceiling which is 6ft in length and has 6 struts) and 3 clothes horses. To dry the clothes in the utility room I have a boiler which is ancient and which throws heat out of the front if I remove the cover and a radiator ....

This year I don't have the nappies ( ) so life will be much simpler methinks although her clothes seem to be more .. the joys of a toddler who likes to change her clothes after jumping in puddles (picky, picky ).

julesangles

i have a pull out washing line outside and i put as much as i can outside(since i had to pay so much for a electric bill)
i have bought 3 maidens(cloth horses and 4 of the little things with pegs on, for all socks and underwear.
i put my maidens out when line is full and they don't fall over now as i put them on the grass and use a small tent peg on one of the legs and this keeps mine upright.
i have seriously considered one of them things on bathroom but hubbies has put his foot down and said NO! my house looks like a laundry at the moment cos it keeps raining here in soggy Stockport!

MessyTessie

I have one of those retracable lines in the garage, it's integral and has the washing machine and big freezer in it, I can get a load dried in there no matter what the weather overnight, I also have an airer which I leave up overnight to make use of the evening heat and I use the airing cupboard whenever possible.

It does seem a bit of a hassle but I've managed without a TD for two years now and I've added another child to the family in the meantime LOL

Spirited_2

At the moment we use the line outside or hang things around inside. But we are moving in a month to a rented home without a tumble drier (not a problem we don't use our current one) or a line outside so I'm going to get a clothes horse... other than freecycle which I'll watch out for, does anyone know where there are some going cheap? We're tired of having things all over the place.

carrottopsuk

Spirited wrote:

At the moment we use the line outside or hang things around inside. But we are moving in a month to a rented home without a tumble drier (not a problem we don't use our current one) or a line outside so I'm going to get a clothes horse... other than freecycle which I'll watch out for, does anyone know where there are some going cheap? We're tired of having things all over the place.

I picked a crome one up from Home bargains yesterday for £7.99. I don't know how good it is as its the first one I've ever bought.

leni

ashamed to say up until last week, we used the TD for all clothes drying, with the occassional use of a clothes line but by the time I got home from work it would of rained so that never lasted long!

At the weekend we bought a clothes airer which is sitting in the back bedroom and we've used it 3 times since saturday (do all our washing on a friday/saturday)

Chipps

I have a washing line in the garden - the long sort, I used to have a rotary one, but the long variety dries much quicker.
On wet days I do have a TD which I try to use as little as possible, but also have a large walk-in airing cupboard which also houses the gas boiler so is quite warm in winter especially. I have put a pole diagonally across (there are shelves on 2 walls of the cupboard, so the pole is balanced on these) and then hang the washing on coathangers on that. If there is more washing, it goes on coathangers on the doorframe of the airing cupboard & I put the dehumidifier on.
DH works in the window industry & his pet hate is condensation! Hence why we own a dehumidifier! So I am not supposed to hang things on the radiators because they cause the dreaded condensation. So I very rarely hang things on the radiators..... at least, not for too long!

flis21

I am trying to manage without a tumble dryer for the first time. Can I just ask you people without one, how do you manage to dry your sheets? They are the one thing I have not been able to dry (I am in a flat so don't have an outside line) and I keep taking them round my sister in law's to use her tumble dryer!!

seven-day-weekend

I've never had a tumble dryer.

In the UK I use clothes horses outside, or if it's raining in the workshop with door open, or over radiators on radiator racks. My son and the lodgers have adopted this methods since we've been gone and even strung a washing line up in the workshop.

Her in Spain - not a problem, even in the winter it's usually sunny for at least a few hours, so outside on the clothes airer.

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