Drying clothes??

CherryPie

I live in Bonny (rainy) Scotland so I regularly have this issue. I put my laundry on an airer, and pop it just outside the door. So if it starts to rain I can just bring it in quickly. I usually put the small stuff on it, so the big stuff goes on the line.


I saw a neighbour do this and thought "why didn't I think of that!"

BrassicWoman

lakeland heated clothes airer, stuff dries overnight then it folds up.

globetraveller

I cover my heated airer with a duvet cover. Clothes try quickly
I spin first using white knight spinster. It is amazing!

jackomdj

We have the Lakeland heated dryer too, I love it.

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Where I used to live I had a decent-sized square kitchen, and had a pull-out set of lines from one side of the room to the other.On washdays if it was raining, I did my washing in the morning then hung the stuff up on the pulled out washing lines to dry.
I then usually baked cakes for the children coming in from school and when done left the cooling oven door open and shut the kitchen door so the heat rose to help dry the clothes.Sheets and duvet covers went on the line overnight with the doors shut and were usually dry enough in the morning to iron.I think probably Dunelm sell these things now.
I moved to my tiny cottage in 1995 and missed my drying lines but now I am lucky enough to have a conservatory where I just put things on the clothes airer out of the way until dry, mind there is only me to wash for now so my washing doesn't take long to do anyway. But as a previous poster said, I also line dry as much as possible unless its cats and dogs chucking down most clothes at least get a bit of a blow on the line,but I do live in the drier south-east which helps .
JackieO

iris

I only wash when it's a nice day so that I can hang it outside, but then I am retired and have plenty of time.


If the weather should come over rainy, I hang my items on coat hangers in my airing cupboard to finish them off. Pants and socks go on a little thing with pegs (don't know what it is called) and also goes in my airing cupboard.


I do have a tumble drier, but only use it in emergencies for towels and duvet covers.

CathA

I always put the washing out on an airer. If it's not raining it stays in the garden, if it's raining it goes in our outside 'shelter'. That is basically a pvc tomato house thingy, we got it from Poundstretchers, cost about a tenner. The airer fits in there, zip up the cover and job done! It gets a bit of air, the sun shines on it which helps but make sure you put tape over the holes in the top. The holes are designed for the growing poles for the tomatoes to grow up, by the way, but they let the rain in a treat!!

Also, hang the big stuff like sheets and duvets over doors and stair banisters, works a treat.

If you have one of those peg things for small stuff like pants and socks, hang them inside the car as it always gets hot in there, but open the window a touch to stop it steaming up. T shirts and jumpers on hangers can go in there as well, hang them on the handles that's usually in cars above the back seats.

I've got a tumble drier but it gets used very rarely. Hope this helps.

pollypenny

Any chance of sun or wind the washing goes outside. Otherwise, Before we had a combi boiler I found washing dried on a rack in front of the boiler in the kitchen.

Now it's on a rack in our back porch, unless I'm desperate then I'll use the tumble dryer.

ScarletRibbons

I find the dehumidifier helps to dry washing. We've got quite a large landing, and the dehumidifier is up there,so I dry stuff on the airer on the landing.

Sometimes if I get washing half dry outside, I'll finish it off in the tumble dryer.

Seakay

I've had one of these

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prem-I-Air-10L-day-Desiccant-Dehumidifier/dp/B000ZJ0C7M/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1432579064&sr=8-2&keywords=prem-i-air+dessicant+dehumidifier

for 5 years now and it's great for cheap drying when you can't get the washing outside or you can but only for a short while. It is an investment but it is really cheap to use and it will function at low temperatures. The room temperature goes up a little when it is in use which is a bonus.