Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

affordmylife

I use an airer in the kitchen. I hang the washing up last thing at night and take it off the airer in the morning - lovely and dry and not hanging around the house all day.

No TD here either.

MissBehaving

I have a conservatory with underfloor heating. I get my clothes on hangers and hang them accross the beams. (doesnt look pretty but it works).
Also, I have one of those rail things that shops put their clothes on .. that works too... Stick that in the spare room near the radiator.

Otherwise I am afraid, its the radiators and tumbledryer!

tesuhoha

I think a dehumidifier might be a good idea for an unheated room. My OH says if you open the conservatory window even on the coldest, foggiest, dampest day then its better than keeping it shut as the moisture has nowhere to go.

BungleGirl

My solution wasn't cheap - we bought onw of those airers with wooden slats in wrought iron bits that attaches to the ceiling with two pulleys. We got the longest one possible (7ft I think - it cost about £60 delivered) and it easily holds a full machine load of clothes. You have to located as high as possible as hot air rises - we decided to have ours downstairs but near a radiator.

If I do a load of washing in the afternoon and hang it up before the heating goes on at 4pm it is dry before I go to bed - sometimes jeans need a little longer.

My husband didn't like the idea having our washing in view of everyone but as you pull it up high noone has ever comented (appart from wow what's that!) and Hubby rather likes it now - it's a bit of a feature.

We spent the money on this as we wanted to get rid of the tumble drier (put it on freecycle) and it has worked so well I am certain that we will never have a drier again and the airer is such good quality I can't see us having to replace it in the next decade or two!

Sophie

tesuhoha

BungleGirl wrote: »

My solution wasn't cheap - we bought onw of those airers with wooden slats in wrought iron bits that attaches to the ceiling with two pulleys. We got the longest one possible (7ft I think - it cost about £60 delivered) and it easily holds a full machine load of clothes. You have to located as high as possible as hot air rises - we decided to have ours downstairs but near a radiator.

If I do a load of washing in the afternoon and hang it up before the heating goes on at 4pm it is dry before I go to bed - sometimes jeans need a little longer.

My husband didn't like the idea having our washing in view of everyone but as you pull it up high noone has ever comented (appart from wow what's that!) and Hubby rather likes it now - it's a bit of a feature.

We spent the money on this as we wanted to get rid of the tumble drier (put it on freecycle) and it has worked so well I am certain that we will never have a drier again and the airer is such good quality I can't see us having to replace it in the next decade or two!

Sophie

That would be an excellent thing to have in a utility room. Im hoping to have one - one day.

Pink.

Hi tesuhoha,

There's an older thread with lots of ideas that should help so I've added your thread to it to keep all the suggestions together.

Pink

BungleGirl

tesuhoha wrote: »

That would be an excellent thing to have in a utility room. Im hoping to have one - one day.

We've got ours in the lounge, with a seagrass lidded basket underneath to drop the dry clothes into so noone sees the ironing pile!! Because it gets pulled up to the ceiling you don't notice it so much.

Sugarhunny1

Hi Freestyle

I had the same problem and without hijacking your thread, here is the link. This is how i solved the same problem.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=485719&highlight=washing

HTH

Sugar xxx

Olliebeak

I have a large stand-alone airer that is used permanently in the winter along with a set of 3 over-radiator airers (Wilko's - 2 for £1.99 now) and a tumble dryer (which I try to avoid using as much as possible). Sometimes have to 'finish off' jeans when they've been on the airer for 24 hours - but better than them going 'musty smelling'. However I do object to washing jeans unnecessarily in the winter. The large airer is usually placed by the radiator in the dining area - but I move it to the living room if I'm cooking something with a strong smell - don't want 'garlicy smalls'!

One of the first (and best) tips I found on here was to do your laundry AFTER listening to the weather forecast! But have to admit that this wouldn't work if you had a family of children - can't pick and choose when to do laundry then . And, of course, it doesn't really work at this time of year.

The best thing I discovered when I moved to this house is that 'the landing bannister is exactly the right size for drying my king-size duvet covers on :j :T '!!!

pigpen

BungleGirl wrote: »

we bought onw of those airers with wooden slats in wrought iron bits that attaches to the ceiling with two pulleys.

I had oen fo those.. it had that much on it is brought the ceiling down!! I also found it got littered with junk.. anything that would hang/fling over the top or generally keep something out of the way it went on it... So if you are prone to clutter & short on space I wouldn't advise one!!

I hang mine on one radiator and 2 airers and everything else goes in the dryer...

Shirts etc go on hangers and I hang them on a larder unit in the kitchen, trousers that 'need' ironing.. suit and school trousers mainly get folded and go on the rads an airers as do knitted items.