Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

Emm-in-a-pickle

I`ve never had or wanted a tumble drier, I line dry when possible, and hang stuff on coat or trouser hangers in upstairs doorways. Also have a couple of really good strong `peg-chandeliers` (sorry, no idea what their proper name is!) that I bought at a car boot years ago. I hang these over doors.
We still have a log fire too, and the old nursery type fireguard. I LOVE drying stuff on that in winter but never leave it unattended and keep moving stuff around on it. No singe marks up to now, and quite fast for drying towels and jeans. I love the smell of drying like this too.

kboss2010

My clothes horse is the £10 one from Ikea and it lives permanently open on my kitchen table (which I don't use for any other purpose). It's not great but it's the best I can do. Torry Quine, it sucks up here in the N-E for drying clothes in Winter. Today I'm not sure we got proper daylight at all.

Torry_Quine

I have a tumble dryer and make no apology for using it from now until spring and beyond if the weather is wet. Going by others on here I don't do that many loads and my electricity bills aren't too bad either. It's up to everyone what they do but don't make others feel bad please.

dianasnan

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We limped along with the line when fine and radiators and racks/Lakeland heated airer indoors when not but starting to use a Rotaire on the rotary line has really helped because I don't have to dash out at the first sign of rain any more.

another vote here for the Rotaire, even in very wet weather I can get my washing nearly dry as the cover keeps the rain off whilst letting the breeze blow through it . just have to remember to put big items in the middle and little things towards the outside.

VJsmum

Another vote for rotaire here

Eenymeeny

Thanks for the many tips on here, I hadn't heard of the Rotaire, looks like a good idea.
I'm lucky that I have an overhead airer now and a utility room, but when we lived in an upstairs flat previously, I used a cheap hanging rail which held all of the shirts, tee shirts etc that could be put on hangers. We used it on the landing, where it could easily be wheeled to one side if necessary, and if I ironed them first they dried really quickly!
It could be easily dismantled and kept under the bed or just wheeled into a spare room if you are lucky enough to have one.
PS The raintoday website also looks very useful thanks.

LameWolf

If I can't line-dry, I will, I confess, tumble bedlinen. We only have a tiny bungalow, and I just can't have wet bedlinen all over the place, it's just too much. Anything else either gets draped over radiators, or else put on two A-frames which sit over the bath. I also have a third frame, which opens out into an L-shape, which I occasionally park in front of the dehumidifier if I've got a lot of wet stuff. That's not ideal though, as I walk into it every time I go into the hallway! (I did say our bungalow is tiny!!):D

CathA

I've got a tomato growing frame, cheap plastic one from pound stretchers, with a plastic cover on it. I put the washing on an airer and it goes outside whatever the weather. If it rains it goes in the tomato grower. Surprising how dry it get with a bit of air through it. Then I leave it in the utility room overnight and it sometimes needs a bit of a whiz in the TD, or it gets hung up in the airing cupboard

Lizling

I'm in a flat with no outdoor space, so it's the tumble drier all year round for me. Everything except jeans and woolly jumpers goes in it, and they go over radiators or the backs of chairs instead. It's just me here, so it's not too many loads of washing.

Some of my neighbours with balconies are still drying theirs outside (well, not today. Nothing would have dried outdoors here today,) but it isn't really allowed and we keep getting letters put through the doors reminding us of that. I do sympathise though and I think it should be allowed.

Casati

No tumble drier here, gets hung outside pretty much all year round. Often by late afternoon it's just a little bit damp around the edges and can go straight in the airing cupboard or be ironed. Anything still damp gets put on one of those ceiling mounted thingies...is it called a Sheila - Maid? I also have a rack that fits over the bath for hand wash items that can't be spun. I really don't think you can beat the smell of clean outdoor-dried bedlinen. I always rather fancied ye olde english method of slinging it over a lavender hedge to dry, but first I'd have to cultivate a lavender hedge.

I've never really understood why people who live in flats get such a hard time over putting laundry out on their balconies.