Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

zaxdog

I just bank the fire at night and pop the clothes drier in front of it. Dry and warm clothes for the cold mornings :j

K9sandFelines

Line to get excess off, then airer. Then a quick tumble to stop them going like cardboard. I have a condeser in the room with the airer.

LondonDreamer

This big thread might help: Any suggestions for drying washing indoors?

I think I was living in a flat with no garden when I answered in that one, so here's my updated routine... I run an extra spin cycle (particularly on heavier items e.g. jeans) to get as much moisture out as possible. If it's bright and/or windy but not too damp out, I will still hang out even if just for a couple of hours just to get some fresh air through them. Then on to the airer inside. If they're still quite wet by this point, I'll run the dehumidifier for a bit so they dry quicker and the room doesn't get cold/damp.

happy35

i am sick of trying to get things dry already and winter has only just started , I did put things ont he line but they havent dried very well at all, i dried bedding in the tumble dryer and then on the airer with the dehumidifier for other items. I have been looking on gumtree/ebay for a spin dryer to get more water out of the clothes but none available as nearest is 80 miles away - has anyone tried using one? was it any good?

I hate washing lying around the place makes everywhere look untidy.

bluebag

I put them out on the line if the flagstones outside are dry, this means the humidity is low enough to dry them off, at least some of it.

Then it goes in the dryer, or on the airer if it's non- tumble dryable.

I try not to have damp washing drying in the house as we are single walled ( no cavity wall) and it causes damp walls.

Damp washing makes the room colder and takes more heat to warm the place up, so I think using the dryer adds up to more or less the same fuel cost.

Dunroamin

As far as possible, I wait until the weather is suitable for outdoor drying before doing non essential loads of washing.

flubberyzing

I live alone, so don't have huge quantities of washing. I have a tumble dryer, but only use it if I want something drying quickly, which isn't often...
Otherwise it all just sits on a bog-standard airer in the kitchen until it's dry. The heaviest things, jeans and hoodies take about 36 hours, even in the depths of winter.

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I hang clothes in a spare bedroom, and tumble dry everything else. I never put clothes into a drier because they shrink!

bluebag

Dunroamin wrote: »

As far as possible, I wait until the weather is suitable for outdoor drying before doing non essential loads of washing.

Me too, I look ahead in the weather forecast for a change the beds day ,useful that they give humidity readings now, sometimes there isn't one and I have to use the dryer..:(

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jack_pott wrote: »

I hang clothes in a spare bedroom, and tumble dry everything else. I never put clothes into a drier because they shrink!

I don't understand the above quote? What's the difference between a tumble dryer and a dryer?


OP. We had a condensor tumble dryer until it broke and we didn't replace it as we persevered with hanging everything on airers for a few years which was ok while we only had one child but when the third baby arrived it was all getting on top of us so we bought a new tumble dryer and haven't looked back. It's worth paying a bit extra on the leccy as it saves us a lot of work and inconvenience.
Thinking about it I have also noticed that we don't have the same problems with condensation and damp as we did when we without a tumble dryer.