Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

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Concertina -type clothes airer sholud be able to stand in a bath.I only have a miniscule bath but mine stands up O.K.
In my previous house I had one of those pull-out clotheslines.It had four washing lines parrallel when opened and it was marvelous. In the winter when I did the washing I could hang everything on there and close the door to the kitchen over night and by next morning they were all dry. My husband hated it, but it was great for drying all the clothes.Those were the days of two machine loads a week, unlike todays daily loads that young folk do. My daughter has five children and her machine is on twice a day every day of the year.
When I used to do a Monday morning wash when the kids were small I always cooked cakes after lunch as the heat from the oven helped dry the clothes as well. My kids always associate rock cakes with wash-day even today

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I can`t dry washing outside, ever.

Concertina wooden rack from lakeland is small enough to stand in the bath. Wooden base so doesn`t scratch. I do this when the ch is on in the winter as bathroom is warm. I just make sure the fan goes on now and then as bathroom is windowless.

Lounge gets sun so I stand another lakeland airer in there during the day, spring/summer/autumn. The airer is metal and light and stretches really wide. Most things dry in one day. For evening I squash the airer together leaving what is damp on it and I move the whole lot to the landing

This has worked very well for a whole year. Clothes smell nice and it isn`t intrusive as we live in the kitchen on the ground floor as the lounge is first floor. Not used the tb at all. Got to be a lot harder with children though. My mum (7 children) used a rack on a pulley in the kitchen after wringing in a mangle.

When my children were young I used a 4 line pull out in the bathroom of our old house. I would say go for one in the kitchen as there is no way the washing is going to disappear from sight

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Just a quickie about drying on radiators. Make sure that you use a rack. I used to dry on the radiator itself and it rusted the top of the rad in no time

lara1983

My nan used to have a retractable washing line thing (is that what a creel is?) across her little dining/living room and simply dried stuff on a night. We used to laugh about her having something so old fashioned and 'washer woman' style, but actually I'd love one of them myself now! It must have let air circulate really well and I bet they were always dry in the morning. It was a mechanism like a tape measure, but instead it was string. Could a fishing gadget work?!

anguk

lara1983 wrote:

My nan used to have a retractable washing line thing (is that what a creel is?) across her little dining/living room and simply dried stuff on a night. We used to laugh about her having something so old fashioned and 'washer woman' style, but actually I'd love one of them myself now! It must have let air circulate really well and I bet they were always dry in the morning. It was a mechanism like a tape measure, but instead it was string. Could a fishing gadget work?!

Was it something like this?
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/8505820/Trail/C%24cip%3D35826.Homewares%3EC%24cip%3D35827.Laundry%2Band%2Bcleaning%3EC%24cip%3D35833.Washing%2Blines.htm

I normally dry my clothes on the radiators and I also have a huge airer that I got from Lidl, it dries loads of clothes. DS has been away this weekend so I've had the airer in his room, must remember to take it out before he gets home later!

**purpleprincess**

kittiwoz wrote:

The speed queens were ace!

I've got a speed queen in our laundry room! It is fantastic!!!

I live in a studio flat so don't have a garden, or loads of room for that matter!!:rotfl: I dry all my washing on an airer thingy which I put by the window. It's a Minky and has got purple on it!:D

I can fit about three loads of washing on it and it's dry by the next day then just put it away. The airer is good because it just folds up and I can put it away until I next do some washing.

Also dry towels and bed sheets on it too.

exlibris

kittie wrote:

Just a quickie about drying on radiators. Make sure that you use a rack. I used to dry on the radiator itself and it rusted the top of the rad in no time

Also if you have wallpaper it comes off behind them !!! DH moans if I use the rads because of this as I insist on papering totally behind rads not just where you can see!

Horasio

I have 2 A frame dryers for sheets and duvet covers that I dry in the spare room.

I put socks and underwear on the radiators.

The rest goes in the tumble dryer as it makes them soft and it takes forever to dry clothes when it rains - humidity

nicki_2

I try to get all mine washed and dried in one day on the washing line when the weather is nice. If its wet out (like today) I hang mine from hangers hung on the curtain rails in the bedrooms with the windows locked open. Underwear etc either goes in the airing cupboard (if there is room, which there isn't ATM due to seasonal change over and me needing to find homes for winter quilts etc :rolleyes: ) or on a fold out maiden ( here ). It can take a couple of days to dry bedding on the maiden if we don't have the heater on but it can't be helped.

We don't have a tumble drier so if I am really desperate to get stuff done and out the way I take it to the laundrette 5 minutes down the road and spend about £2 trying to get it all dry :mad:

We used to have a maiden like this but I got sick of it collapsing and hitting me on the head :rotfl:

susank

Oh dear I use the tumble drier all the time unless the weather is good - cannot abide the dampness from drying clothes in the house and they need less ironing if tumble dried. Sorry not very money saving or O/S