Clothes Drying

greenbee

Anoneemoose wrote: »

I like your thinking!!! Can you please tell me which brand of heated airer you have please?

I think it is one of these, but I don't think it came from Lakeland.

I've had it for years, and use it regularly during the winter moving it into whichever room happens to be convenient for drying things in at the time I need to dry them. If the weather isn't too vile I'll put the window on the night vent and shut the door to avoid the room getting damp but TBH I don't seem to have much of a problem with humidity when drying washing - my thermostats register humidity and when it's heating season it tends to be pretty low anyway.

Callie22

greenbee wrote: »

I think it is one of these, but I don't think it came from Lakeland.

QVC have this on offer fairly regularly - they sell them with the covers too which apparently makes them work much better.

greenbee

Callie22 wrote: »

QVC have this on offer fairly regularly - they sell them with the covers too which apparently makes them work much better.

I hang so much stuff round the edges/drape it over the top that I think it probably has a similar effect. I know some people stick a sheet or duvet cover over to help.

motivated

Lizabeth21 wrote: »

I hang stuff I’m going to iron on hangers from a curtain rail at the back (if the sun is out that’s a bonus) of my house (above radiator is quickest) and smaller stuff (underwear) I put on heated towel rail in bathroom. I have shirt style and skirt clippy hangers. I also have a multi peg thing with a hanger hook if I want to hang socks from curtain rail. I always spin on the fastest speed and I try not to have the washing backing up. I have never had an airier/clothes horse. I do have a dryer but mostly use it for towels. It always dries the same day and is ironed and put away by tea time.

I do this the also but I hang my clothes on hangers and then on the door frame upstairs. I’ve just put some up there and it’s usually dry by the morning.

suki1964

Clothes horse in the hall. Clothes mostly dry over night

I also have a pull out clothes line in the car port. I’ve even been known to have clothes drying in the garage

I don’t have a tumble dryer and I live in one of the wettest parts of the county. I just need to be organised. If the grand kids when staying make a mess of their clothes and it looks like I’m going to run out of clean and dry, I tuck them around the hot tank

It does help that I have a super fast spin on the washing machine. It’s only jeans that need more then an over nighter on the clothes horse

jk0

Ahhh!

I hope none of you guys are my tenants. Almost all my tenants are too tight to use the tumble drier I provided. (They have timers too for the cheap rate electricity.)

To a man, they all moan about mould.

Err, the flat never had mould when you moved in, did it?

Anoneemoose

jk0 wrote: »

Ahhh!

I hope none of you guys are my tenants. Almost all my tenants are too tight to use the tumble drier I provided. (They have timers too for the cheap rate electricity.)

To a man, they all moan about mould.

Err, the flat never had mould when you moved in, did it?

Erm, nope. I own my house. No mould either. As, I suspect will be the case for those using dehumidifiers.

jk0

Anoneemoose wrote: »

Erm, nope. I own my house. No mould either. As, I suspect will be the case for those using dehumidifiers.

I didn't post that to pull rank, or be nasty. Even some of my tenants with dehumidifiers have mould.

ouraggie

I use an airer in the spare room. If I wash a load in the morning it is usually dry by the next morning. I would say two things, though; hang tops and t-shirts on hangers and arrange the rest so there is plenty of airflow around it. Sometimes I peg things on the airer bars instead, using them like short clothes lines IYSWIM (My OH's mum always moans that her washing takes 3 days to dry , but I notice she does things like hang a big towel on the inside of her airer and just over one bar of the airer, so it is effectively double thickness and also surrounded by other stuff. I would put the thinner stuff on the inside, hang everything over two bars and hang tops on hangers.)
I put knickers, socks, flannels etc on one of those things with pegs hanging from it. Sheets, big towels and duvet covers go over the upstairs banister.
We also use the summer house sometimes as a drying room.
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suki1964

jk0 wrote: »

Ahhh!

I hope none of you guys are my tenants. Almost all my tenants are too tight to use the tumble drier I provided. (They have timers too for the cheap rate electricity.)

To a man, they all moan about mould.

Err, the flat never had mould when you moved in, did it?

Never in my life have I had mould in a place I lived in, and I've always dried clothes over the clothes horse

One flat I did move into was covered in mould, because the previous tenant had covered all the air vents, never opened a window and was running a hair dressers there. Was soon cleaned up and dried out with proper ventilation. Never saw mould again whilst I lived there