Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

CCP

I have one of those Lakeland heated dryers, too, and it is very good and not too expensive to run, although I use so little electricity that I can always see on my energy bills when I have been using it. Depending on the weather I find it can take anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days for things to dry completely on it, with things like duvet covers and large towels taking the longest (not surprisingly, I suppose).

The dryer doubles as a proving oven on the rare occasions I make bread dough by hand (usually I used a bread machine), triples as a drying rack for home-grown chillies / beans / tomatoes etc at this time of year, and quadruples as a room heater although I won't switch it on just for that purpose! It's pretty good value when I look at it like that!

kittycat204

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Peggybabcot

When we lived in a flat with a washer dryer I often washed, then split the load into lightweight items which went on an over the bath airer and the bulkier stuff like towels, jeans etc I tumble dried. One thing I found was you could wash x amount but the dryer wasn't capable of drying said amount so just running a wash then straight into dry cycle was a waste of time. I've just picked up some radiator airers in Aldi this morning, £1.99 for a pack of 2 as our dryer is broken at the mo and can't really afford to fix it. HTH X

unimaginative_user_name

CCP wrote: »

I have one of those Lakeland heated dryers, too, and it is very good and not too expensive to run, although I use so little electricity that I can always see on my energy bills when I have been using it. Depending on the weather I find it can take anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days for things to dry completely on it, with things like duvet covers and large towels taking the longest (not surprisingly, I suppose).

The dryer doubles as a proving oven on the rare occasions I make bread dough by hand (usually I used a bread machine), triples as a drying rack for home-grown chillies / beans / tomatoes etc at this time of year, and quadruples as a room heater although I won't switch it on just for that purpose! It's pretty good value when I look at it like that!

WOW!

We could do with a whole new thread on 'other uses for my Lakeland 3 tier dryer'! I did wonder whether it was worth the expense and how many autumns and springs it would need to last before it had paid for itself! I'll have to make a list.....:rotfl:

Pooky

I double spin everything if it's going to be dried indoors, you'll be amazed how much quicker things dry.

Linda32

I know of someone who has the Lakeland heated hirer. She says that if her tumble dryer died on her, she would buy the Lakeland hirer instead of a tumble dryer.

peachyprice

Oh poop, that's teach me to show interest is the Lakeland dryer.

Put a load in the tumble dryer last night, 10 mins from the end it started making a terrible noise.

If OH can't fix it at the weekend I guess I'll be off to Lakeland to treat myself to a heated dryer, and I only threw the booklet away with the £5 voucher on last weekend, because I didn't think I would need it

MothFilledWallet

It might sound a bit silly but I'm having a think about making a 'spinner'. I'm going to use a babies toy mobile 'engine' and then attached strings with clamps/pegs on the end to some form of wheel/spoke attachment to hold the clothing. It shouldn't be too hard/expensive to try out, I'm not going to make it too complicated.
Not sure if it'll work at all or if the 'engine' will burn out if the cloths are too heavy, but having the cloths whirl around (even slowly) should help them dry a bit faster.
If anyone has tried this before me please let my know

Justamum

MothFilledWallet wrote: »

It might sound a bit silly but I'm having a think about making a 'spinner'.

Not silly at all, I think it's ingenious. There's a patent for something similar http://www.google.com/patents/WO2005014914A1?cl=en but I don't know if it's ever gone into production.

Ruthie5

I have developed a bit of an obsession with drying washing and am converting a cupboard we cleared out into a drying cupboard. I found this article by Glasgow design school on laundry, which has a design guide for healthy laundry drying both indoors and out.

For a drying cupboard they recommend a low grade heat source....ideally 'borrowing' heat from something else like a freezer etc. Plus a fan vented to outside. Plus walls lined with an absorbent material, to help deal with spikes in moisture and prevent mould and finally a vent in the door to help with airflow.

For outside they recommend a covered canopy arrangement in a sunny spot.

I'm pretty excited about my cupboard and am hoping it will do the trick....!