Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

Ilona

I have never owned a drier. I wait until there is a sunny/windy day before I do any washing. I have enough clothes, towels, bedding to last several months without doing a wash. I can get away with just washing undies if the weather is bad, then it would be only once a month as I have forty pairs of pants and don't wear a bra. :rotfl:
Ilona

jinny

I got rid of a lot of clothes when I retired last year.
ive washed my smalls every night in the bathroom sink since I was a child sqeezed in an old towel then hung up in the airing cubby.
Mother wasnt the best housewife bless her part time jobs and bingo was her forte lol. So laundry was done as and when.
I put a bit of white vinegar and 3 drops of lavendar oil in the rinse water for the cardboard effect.
I live in a flat so drying outside not an option. My newly washed fluffy pyjamas were hanging on the curtain rail with the window slightly open in the kitchen today. I have to look at tbe weather report before I wash as you have to be careful of mould in damp weather.
I find if I spin twice that gets them more dry

carlislelass

Have a plastic coated clothes horse

janb5

I have copied an idea of a friend of mine who put a slim steel towel rail just above the door( ours is where the wm and shower is) and I hang shirts and skirts + tops on hangers from the rail.

Tigsteroonie

Smalls and bedding get tumble-dried. Larger stuff gets put on hangers and hung either on the shower rail, or on the curtain rail in the bedroom during daytime. Jeans go directly onto the radiator in the evening. Towels get stockpiled until we have a windy day, and they go out onto the line.

pollys

Family of six here. I dry outdoors when I can, two loads just about dry today. When I can't dry outside I use the tumble drier and Lakeland airer. It's a huge task in winter getting washing dry. I haven't got a utility room or a spare room, the Lakeland airier is in a corner in the dining room.

Polly

System

I hang stuff from doors and suitable mirrors, if its been really wet, I use the radiators, but I am now trying to stick to only washing as much as my Lakeland heated airer will hold.
That can be difficult though :-)

mummyroysof3

Do heated airers cost less to run than a tumble drier? The best way to reduce drying is to reduce washing. Pjs, trousers and jumpers can sometimes be work more than once.....wish my kids would understand this. Bedding is changed once a week and towels are used more than once then spread on banister to dry

PasturesNew

Another space efficient method is to use a small dehumidifier.

Sally_A

On hangers over the shower rail is a good option, often the bathroom radiator is the only one without a thermostat on it, so you can turn all the others down but still have the bathroom warm.


Another option is an airer or two in the greenhouse, not used for plants over winter, protected from rain, warm, only downside is it doesn't have a fresh breeze.