Drying washing outside

flowertotmum

Hi i always hang out my washing in the winter..fetch it in about 3ish and fold and put in airing cupboard to finish it off...always give it an extra spin too that seems to help...could a neighbour fetch it in for you at 3 if your not home...i have mine out as we speak and its blowing away on the line so hopefully it will dry...good luck

[Deleted User]

I too hang out all my washing in the winter ,especially if its a nice blowy day.I love the fresh smell clothes get from even an hour blowing on the line .I can finish them off on an airer indoors afterwards.Mind you I don't bother washing them unless I know its going to be a drying day but there is only me to worry about anyway so its not too much of a problem.this morning I did a wash and its blowing well outside at the moment (my Mum would have been horrified at me doing a wash on a Sunday )But I will bring it in late afternoon before I go to Dds for dinner as the forecast is wet weather for the next two days where I live .So my washing is done and dry (hopefully) and it will get ironed tomorrow.I do sometimes because of rain have to hang it on the airer in my conservatory which means its out of the way at least and not making the house damp.My conservatory has a central heating radiator in there so that helps it to dry off a bit.When the weather is really appaling then the sheets go to the laundry and I only wash out the small bits which I can dry fairly quickly.Years ago (1967) when my children were small I had a 'Flatley 'electric dryer which was a large white box-type thing like about the sixe of a small fridge and inside it had 7-8 wooden bars that you hung your nappies on to dry in the winter.Didn't use it a lot as it was quite expensive to run but it did come in handy for the nappies.I have never owned a TD or ever wanted one, just another thing to push up the electric bill.

csarina

I always hang my washing out even in the winter, ok I have to fetch it in before it starts to get dark, but I have those airers that fit over radiators so I fold the small stuff, i.e.. pants etc and socks and put it on them, by morning everything is ready to go away. Sheets etc I put on the fold up airer and leave them in the sitting room overnight, the heat from the stove dries them.......jumpers or tee shirts I put on hangers and hang then from the airer, if you are lucky unless its a special or work shirt you can get away with just folding stuff and not ironing it. Mind you I always iron sheets, duvet covers and pillowcases, I love crisp bedding...............towels also go on the big airer. I used to dry everything in a tumble drier when we were in the sheltered housing, hated it.........used to look out longingly at washing blowing on the line of the houses opposite. I asked if they would put rotary airers in but was told they were a health hazard according to H & S!!!! what a load of cobblers!!

Sambucus_Nigra

Always then they go on airers to dry off properly. Nothing like the smell they get even after an hour out there.

~~Diane~~

I hang my washing out all the time apart from wet weather, of course. In the winter bring it in before it goes dusk so that it doesn't get dew on it and finish it off in the dryer. A lot of things don't even need the dryer, they can be iron dried/aired.

I always remember my nan telling to bring it in before dusk otherwise you've wasted your time putting it out all day. I love the the smell of clean washing when it's been line dried, can't beat it.

Sue14

looktothefuture wrote: »

I can imagine taking my trousers off the line and they are as stiff as a board - would find myself :rotfl: with laughter if that happened

That reminded me of when my son was a baby, I was very naive, and didn't realise that wet washing would freeze if hung on the line with snow on the ground, lol! I put his clothes and nappies out, (dripping wet as had to wash by hand, and didn't have a spin dryer) and when I got them in at the end of the day they were frozen solid, lol! My mum wasn't very helpful, just said 'I could have told you that!' and I was so annoyed that she hadn't, especially as my son then had no nappies, and I had to borrow some money off my dad to get some disposables to use while I got them dry. I can laugh about it now, but I was very upset at the time!

Nowadays I only put washing out in the winter if it is dry and breezy, but never if it's frosty or it's been snowing, I usually just put it on airers or the radiators, but this year I am getting a tumble dryer as DP hates having washing hanging about all over the house.

Sue14

~~Diane~~ wrote: »

I love the the smell of clean washing when it's been line dried, can't beat it.

I agree, and I also love to see my washing blowing on the line. I used to live in a flat, and there were 4 rotary lines to be shared between 18 flats, and it was such a treat when I managed to get my washing out, as 1 person in particular would hog all the lines if no one else got out before her. At the time there was a woman who lived in one of the nearby houses, with a garden, who said she never put her washing on the line and always used her tumble dryer even on the sunniest days, I couldn't understand the mentality of doing that when you've got a garden to hang the washing in, especially as she had four kids so obviously had a lot of washing.

looktothefuture

luckily I don't have a lot of washing so I can do it on a weekend!

As a South African, a tumble dryer was only for the most posh people... well we were posh but we had a houseboy so it was his problem if our clothes weren't dry :eek: That's such a cringe-worthy thing to say but it is true! The amount of times I'd go down to his room at 10pm and demand he iron something I wanted to wear out that night to a club Shameless!

zippychick

Hi again LTTF

These previous threads should help

drying washing outside

getting washing dry

washing line or rotary

do you wash your washing again if rained on?

I'll merge this with the first link later on

thanks
Zip

Winged_one

If the weather forecast is for dry all day, and especially some wind, we do put them out (we're also out all day, although this year DH won't be leaving until 8am, rather than 7am before, and I will be home by 6 latest rather than 6.30 earliest).

Usually finish in dryer or on clothes horse if needed. If weather is bad, usually put on clothes horse in playroom, which gets any sun going, and might give a few mins in dryer in evening. We sometimes tumble from the washing machine, but only if we've got a backlog really. Usually manage to get at least some bit dry by other means.