drying laundry

Apodemus

comeandgo wrote: »

It's surprising how your clothes can dry in even the dullest of days, I live in the wettest, coldest place known to man and I may still get some drying done at the weekends, do you have a shed or anything under cover where a line could go up?

Of course, we also live in one of the windiest places, too, which helps...as long as the pegs are strong enough!

Pdbaggett

People seem to be really over complicating this, mind you I am surprised just how many people don't use a dryer.

Just get a heat pump dryer or get someone to fit a extractor one for you it's pretty easy to do. Seems pretty obvious to be honest.

Put clothes in come back a couple of hours later and it's dry, no messing with humidity and damp or having the house look like a laundry with towels and clothes all over the place.

Apodemus

Pdbaggett wrote: »

People seem to be really over complicating this, mind you I am surprised just how many people don't use a dryer.

Just get a heat pump dryer or get someone to fit a extractor one for you it's pretty easy to do. Seems pretty obvious to be honest.

Put clothes in come back a couple of hours later and it's dry, no messing with humidity and damp or having the house look like a laundry with towels and clothes all over the place.

Well, you are on MSE...so perhaps not surprising if we want to find the money-saving way of doing things, which just sometimes might be a bit more complicated than throwing money at the problem!

Novice_investor101

Some people don't have space for a separate dryer

Mr_Singleton

gardner1 wrote: »

Dehumidifier is the way to go

Agreed.... it’s called a heat pump tumble dryer.

Using a dehumidifier to dry clothes has got to be one of the craziest things Ive heard in ages. Out of interest what are the running costs?

Mr_Singleton

Novice_investor101 wrote: »

Some people don't have space for a separate dryer

I stack mine.

frogglet

I had a cover for my rotary drier which was purpose made but a bit expensive. I now fasten an old parasol over the top of the rotary drier. it means I can hang towels out when I go to work and at the very least they are partially dry when I get home and protected from the rain. a quick blast in the drier means I dont have to iron a lot of stuff. I have also used old big golfing umbrellas as well,

kerri_gt

Pdbaggett wrote: »

People seem to be really over complicating this, mind you I am surprised just how many people don't use a dryer.

Just get a heat pump dryer or get someone to fit a extractor one for you it's pretty easy to do. Seems pretty obvious to be honest.

Put clothes in come back a couple of hours later and it's dry, no messing with humidity and damp or having the house look like a laundry with towels and clothes all over the place.

Until we moved to this house we've never had room for a tumble dryer so no option to have one. Even now we'd have to put it in the garage and tbh I am not that fussed about tramping out there in bad weather to get to the dryer.

faerielight

I use a winged rail and a dehumidifier with a clothes drying setting, and it works really well and a lot cheaper than running a tumble drier. I second having a good washing machine with a high spin .. my dehumidifier is Pro breeze 10lt

Jamus84

A condensing tumble dryer seems like the perfect solution. I've had one the last few years and would never see the need to buy a vented one. It's no hardship to empty the water tank every few loads.