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request from lodger to use electric heater to dry clothes
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Nudist lodgers, it's the only answer. That and the webcams...0
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3. Why use a tumble dryer on a sunny day?
1. To tumble creases out of clothes that you can't be bothered to iron
2. Because you pay rent and should be able to use as much energy as you like when its included, stuff the landlord - rent money is dead money, you don't get anything back in return, who wants to pay off someone else's mortgage anyhow, etc.
3. Hanging it out on a sunny day requires you to walk an extra 5 yards to the garden and hang each item out by peg and then do the same actions again to take the dry laundry in. That sucks when you can just scoope them all into a machine and press a button (and fail on every occasion to remove the fluff on the filter to prevent damage to the machine, as instructed).0 -
my last lodger was ok and stayed 3 years. I have already rejected this guy but have 2 more coming this evening . Might mention the drying issue briefly.I'm with you - unnecessary and a fire risk, plus potential damp and mould risk from drying clothes indoors.
I gave my lodger an electric blow heater when the boiler packed up (and gave her back the rent for the period) but then had a tussle getting it back off her when the new boiler was installed. Another lodger had a habit of using the tumble drier on a sunny day (house had a garden with a clothes line) and I started to get the impression she tumble dried her dry clothes because she couldn't be bothered to iron them. I also used to come back from holidays and long weekends away to find that the lodger had put the central heating on manual 24/7 so it was getting to the stage when I was considering a thermostat where I could lock the timing settings. Don't get me started on how filthy they all were.
I always found my energy bills soared when I had a lodger, that they were careless about consumption because they were either ignorant about how much their wasteful behaviour cost (such as operating the washing machine and dishwasher at half loads, 24/7 heating and so on) or perhaps because they didn't care, they resented paying rent and wanted their moneys worth, don't know really.
I had 3 lodgers in total, and common to all was that if the bog roll, washing up liquid, handwash or similar ran out, or the bin was full or a bulb blew (I was away from the property at least 50% of the time), then I simply came back to greasy pots, empty handwash containers, overflowing bins and dark rooms. I never really got my head round that mentality where a lodger would simply rinse their greasy pots and put them back in the cupboard rather than spend 50p on washing up liquid because it was supposed to be included in the rent, so they'd rather wait until I came back from holiday and bought new liquid.
As you can tell, I no longer have the tolerance to take in paying lodgers, sorry for going off topic for the purposes of Catharsis. I don't think I'm a misanthropist as currently I have a friend staying now at my place for free for a few months as she had the chance to escape from a bad tenancy agreement at short notice and it's bliss - she does her own washing up, is tidy, quiet, clean, empties bins.
Go with your gut instinct on the lodgers you screen - he sounds a 'mare.0 -
I'd be happier if a prospective lodger asked if they could bring their dehumidifier to dry their clothes in their room. Not a heater.
Is their enough drying-space in the kitchen for two people's laundry a week?0 -
Use a high spin
Put the clothes horse up in the spare room (or bedroom if needed)
Open a window slightly (gets rid of damp)
Put on electric fan
Turn off radiator, shut the door
Clothes dry in 8 hours, no big electricity bills or damp0 -
Use a high spin
Put the clothes horse up in the spare room (or bedroom if needed)
Open a window slightly (gets rid of damp)
Put on electric fan
Turn off radiator, shut the door
Clothes dry in 8 hours, no big electricity bills or damp
How much does switching on an electric fan for 8 hours cost (with window open) ? Compared to a tumble dryer?
Genuinely interested!0 -
Not sure about cost but I dry mine on a clothes horse next to a heater 4hours window open closed room. My clothes are nearly dry and the heat then warms the rest of my flat.0
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About 10% of the cost of running a tumble dryer. Moving air drys clothes more effectively than warm air.
Trust me, I'm a science teacher
aye but what about the comparative efficiency? you're heating an entire room (with the window open) as opposed to a much smaller cylinder that is designed to do the job.
I don't really know how to make the calculation but :
electric fan 2kW @ 8 hours
tumble drier 2.5kW @ <2 hours?0
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