Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

poppett wrote: »

You were told you couldn't hang washing outside? How stupid is that! If I were your landlord I would prefer you to hang washing outside than have damp washing indoors causing mould.

It's more common than you think,we bought a new build a few years back and one of the things we were not allowed to do was have any washing drying outside for the first 18 months.This was a house with a huge garden.Did'nt stop me,I just put a rotary dryer where it was least likely to be seen.
We could'nt have a garden shed for the first 5 years either.

angel81uk

Thank you all for all the advice! You really don't realise just how much of a luxury being able to line dry your washing is until it's taken away! And it's really is sooo annoying that the housing association tenants get to do whatever they want when they have the same landlord as us.

I'm having so many problems with the landlord (is also the developer/builder)/management agency at the moment it's untrue. The bathroom extractor is on my list of things to bring up but for the moment I'm just slowly chipping away at them trying to get them to see sense. If that doesn't work then I'm going to contact the other leaseholders and suggest we use our "right to manage". I don't think we'll have much joy regarding the extractor at the moment though, we had a bundle of paperwork when we moved in last year explaining about damp problems in new builds. It said they can take up to 18 months to dry out properly and condensation is to be expected during that time. The only advice they gave was to open windows as often as possible, keep furniture away from walls, use extractors that are fitted and keep window vents open. Needless to say we're doing all of those things and it's not helping. So once the 18 months are over and the problem still hasn't resolved itself I'll be looking into our NHBC 10 year guarantee etc. It's really crazy though we're not just talking one or two flats here, it's a major development of about 15 blocks of 12 flats and almost all of them have encountered teething problems of one sort or another.

Worst case scenario at the moment is I'll have to put up with it all for another year and then we're thinking of moving away from London and into a cheap, real house and garden with an upstairs and everything! lol We've done what we set out to achieve which was get on the property ladder and it's turned out to be a nice quick investment too.

lol as it happens I have been known to take the oh's "dirty" washing out of the pile and air it before neatly hanging it back up in the wardrobe but he got wise when he realised I couldn't possibly have washed and dried it that quickly!

Wee_Bargain_Hunter

I use one of those flat airers thats about waist high. I put it right up against the radiator and then 'trap' heat by draping towels etc across the top and down the sides. Its a bit like a tent. The towels probably help a bit too. Or just put the longer, bigger washing on the outside IYKWIM. Sometimes i need to turn it around if there's jeans on it.

Horace

I live in a first floor flat, I am lucky enough to have a small balcony and I have rigged up two washing lines for use when the weather is dry. During the winter months or on wet days, I hang my washing on an airer in my smallest bedroom and keep the door shut - the clothes dry just fine. My washing machine is A-rated and when I have finished a wash, I always set it to rinse & spin - that way the clothes come out drier.

I never put any heating on in the room I use for clothes drying and the room doesnt get damp either.

Why not buy one of those retractable washing lines and put it up in the bathroom over the bath, sling your towels over the shower rail too that helps.

looby-loo_2

I hang everything fron the curtain rail which has a radiator below the window. It's all dry by morning. If it's cotton T-shirts/shirts I open the top window a crack to let the condensation out and it seems to work.

I was also wondering if you could stand you airer just inside the open patio doors to get the breeze

sooz

I have one of these http://www.lakeland.co.uk/product.aspx/!20944

(when will I learn to do the nice short links )

It holds a HUGE amount of washing, you can also use just 1/2 and make it thinner, and it has wheels so is dead easy to move from room to room. It mostly lives near the patio doors or next to the radiator, but can be wheeled out of the way in seconds if I don't want guests looking at our smalls!

wendy+5

Have you got room for a stand alone spin dryer? They take out way more water than a washing machine can, esp a washer dryer.

HariboJunkie

sooz wrote: »

I have one of these http://www.lakeland.co.uk/product.aspx/!20944

(when will I learn to do the nice short links )

!

:hello:

Copy (control c) the web address you want to link to.
Type the words you want to see in the link into your post and highlight them.
Click on the insert hyperlink box at the top (little globey thingamy)
Paste (control v) in the web address.
Click ok.

Hey presto.

sooz

this one

thank you so much Haribo :T

Churchmouse

HariboJunkie wrote: »

:hello:

Copy (control c) the web address you want to link to.
Type the words you want to see in the link into your post and highlight them.
Click on the insert hyperlink box at the top (little globey thingamy)
Paste (control v) in the web address.
Click ok.

Hey presto.

Alright clever clogs!!! I taught Aussie this, but in a much more convoluted way:rotfl: :rotfl: It's only taken ages for me to figure it out:rolleyes: