Odd problem with drying clothes in our rented house

conradmum

I'm not sure if this is a practical or a legal question.
We've recently moved into a house we're renting. It wasn't until after we moved in we discovered we aren't allowed to hang washing outside in the garden to dry. There's also a statement in the lease that we can't hang clothes on radiators, which is fair enough.
But the washing machine isn't a washer dryer and there's nowhere to put a tumble dryer. The house is a small Victorian place, and I'm not exaggerating that there really is no space for anything else in the kitchen and no way to vent a tumble dryer.
I have no idea how we're supposed to dry clothes, especially items like double sheets and duvet covers. As far as I can see the only way we can do it without breaking the terms of the lease is to stand a clothes horse in the living room. I'm very reluctant to do this. Constantly drying clothes indoors is going to create problems with condensation, damp and mould.
We also can't even take our wet washing to a laundromat to dry it. The road the house is on has a yellow line and no parking allowed, so even if we do get a car we'll have to try to park it several streets away.
I plan on contacting either the landlady or the letting agent and ask them for suggestions on what we're supposed to do, but I thought I would ask for opinions here too.
Am I being unreasonable in expecting to have at least one way to dry our clothes that isn't a health hazard in a rental property?

diggingdude

Condenser dryer? Not saying you get one in all honesty I would be drying them on the radiators in this scenario

G_M

Speak to the landlord.


However you dry the indoors (radiator, clothes horse in living room, whatever, the water vapour ends upin the air.


Which means either having plenty of open windows, an extractor fan, or condensation and damp problems.


The LL will not want the latter (unless he'san overseas investor who does not really give a sh*t!).

hb2

We live in a flat with a 'no washing outside' clause in the lease. We dry our washing on a clothes horse and run the dehumidifier, it speeds up the drying and keeps the moisture down.

Sky_

I'd use a dehumidifier and a clothes horse (or even better, a heated airer for quicker drying).



If you can site the dehumidifier close to the clothes horse, clothes will dry quickly and you'll avoid condensation problems.

markin

If others on the road do it i would just hang outside in the garden, use a clothes horse inside and outside.


A good place is over the bath with the door closed window open.


You only get problems drying clothes indoors if you don't open the window to ventilate, even in winter.

conradmum

diggingdude wrote: »

Condenser dryer? Not saying you get one in all honesty I would be drying them on the radiators in this scenario

Thanks, but there's literally nowhere to put any other white goods unless I put it in the living room.

in_my_wellies

When I can't hang it outside I hang it on one of those plastic things with pegs all round. I hang it from the curtain rail and open the window. It's above the radiator but not on it. Now ideal but it does the job overnight. It's surprising how much weight they take - I hang sheets or duvet covers by the corners

calleyw

Not sure why its an odd problem. An airier and dehumidifier solves your problems.


Thats what I use when the weather is rubbish and I can't put it out.

Dehumidifier is about the size of a suit case so can be shoved in cupboard when not in use. Mine cost £120 and is worth every penny.

Yours


Calley x

conradmum

Thanks. Looks like we're going to have to live with sitting in our living room with a clothes horse covered in sheets and a dehumdifier running! I won't be leaving windows open and freezing during winter, as well as sending our heating bills through the roof.
We'll definitely be out of this property the minute the lease is up.

bouicca21

I’m not allowed to hang washing outside. I dry it inside on an airer, overnight. No humidifier, no condensation problems either. Next door put theirs outside on an airer if the weather is good and no one has complained about it yet so the management company don’t know.