Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

Justamum

globetraveller wrote: »

I have to admit that I haven't looked at spin driers before. I just remember my mum's one, which was huge. The one above is small though and looks a great buy.

They are really small. I would also recommend one. With towels especially it's amazing how much extra water comes out.

bluebag

C4Tim wrote: »

Hi MoneySavers!

My wife and I live in a small, one-bedroom flat that happily (depending on which way you look at it), comes with white goods as part of the rent.

However, as is commonplace with all the flats in our apartment block, we have a washer-dryer combo. This is a problem for us because the quality of the dryer is poor.

As we cannot put a washing line up in the open-plan lounge/kitchen, we use a standard airing rack. Due to the nature of the windows in the flat, we cannot filter any meaningful breeze through with which to dry the clothes on said rack. This means that we regularly will end up with clothes smelling of damp. :doh: We cannot hang clothes outside either.

We have spotted heated 3-tier airing racks, and even an 'enclosed drying pod' that looks good. These appear to be the answer that we are looking for as they're cheap to run and will do everything that we need of them.

As they're generally expensive in the first instance, I wanted to know if anybody has experience with these items and what they thought. Also, if anybody has tips on how to dry clothes quickly via any other method; it would be much appreciated.

Thank you all for reading:)

You may find you can still use your dryer if you do smaller loads and get it part dried and then finish it off on the airing rack.

scribbelle

I know this a bit late in the day, but anyone out there who is living in an upstairs flat with no access to a garden, try this. Buy one of those airers that are designed to clip over the window of a caravan or motorhome, and clip them to your window frame (you may have to stretch the fittings a bit, so they'll clip on properly, but it won't break). They have plenty of drying bars so you can dry a fair few things. Also I have put a length of string across my sash window in my kitchen and hung small items on it to dry, when the window's open it's the equivalent of drying outside. If you don't have a sash window then hang one of those plastic jobbies with pegs attatched to the casement, make sure it's double secured so it doesn't land in the person downstairs's garden! You don't have to dry any thing inside. Things dry so quickly on a hot day that you can afford to dry the clothes in batches without it getting musty smelling. The only thing I dry over the bath are towels that I have semi dried in the tumble drier first. As somebody said earlier, damp washing swathed all around a flat is a depressing sight, not to mention damp and smelly....don't do it!!!

pigpen

bluebag wrote: »

You may find you can still use your dryer if you do smaller loads and get it part dried and then finish it off on the airing rack.

I'd do it the other way.. part dry on racks and finish in the dryer

Lilyplonk

.......... exactly what I do - especially in the winter months, when I have to wash more frequently to stop it from piling up so much.

Much easier to dry laundry indoors in smaller quantities than to have it hanging around for a few days beginning to 'get stinky' .

tesuhoha

Forgive me if this has been asked before. In the winter I try to put as much washing as I can into my tumble drier. I have a gas tumble drier and its quite cheap to run.

However, my husband and I have quite a few clothes that are unsuitable for the tumble drier. There is nowhere in the house to put a clothes drier so I tend to hang things in open doorways. As the heating is on it usually dries fairly quickly. My daughter does the same. She hangs her washing all over the house, on the banister, in doorways etc.

I'm just wondering what other people do when clothes cannot be dried on the line. I suppose some of you are lucky enough to have utility rooms for this purpose but I would be interested in all solutions!Or do you just bung the lot in the tumble drier willy nilly.

mrsr

I have a drier but don't use it,Anything I can't line dry like you gets hung over doors bannister etc then goes in the airing cupboard to finish.

tanith

Even in Winter you can dry washing outside, I pick my days and wait for a dry blowy day even if its cloudy, don't possess a tumble dryer anymore I got rid of it. I only hang anything on an inside airer if we've had a few wet days.

PasturesNew

When I lived in a studio flat, I measured the shower tray/door and bought a folding airer that would fit inside the shower. If nobody was coming round it could be in the shower room, but if I were ever to expect somebody it could be put into the shower enclosure.

With a bathroom and bath, you can get an over the bath airer, which you just remove when you actually use the bath.

I've never owned/used a drier.

MandM90

As long as it isn't raining, I find my washing dries more quickly outside than in. If it's wet I have two airers which live in a cupboard when not in use. You could install a pull out line over the bath, like they have in hotels, and leave the window open but shut the bathroom door so it doesn't let heat out the entire house.