Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

buxtonrabbitgreen

I had to practicaly rip the school clothes off the kids on Friday so I could get them washed and on the airing horse in time to be dry for Monday morning.

WartimeScrapingofMarmite

We have a pull-out line and I leave a dehumidifier going overnight. The washing is dry by morning.

I can also recommend haning big items such as sheets and towels over doors - It doesn't look pretty but the washing dries surprisingly quickly.

trying-very-trying

The dri-buddy should dry the clothes, it uses 900w of electric. The one from Lakeland only uses 300w of leccy. We used to have an electric dryer, a bit like the dri buddy. It was just a clothes horse with a convector heater underneath. You loaded all your gear onto the clothes horse and wrapped a big towel ore blanket round it to keep the heat in. It was brilliantr, but I don't know how much leccy it used.

Zed42

Until last week, I would have looked "scornfully" (ok maybe a bit harsh!) at the problem of needing to dry stuff indoors. Not the fact that there is no outdoor space, but what on earth is the problem with drying stuff indoors?

I now give up ..... our house has no heating (DH is currently re-routing the plumbing) ..... and the whole house is damp, there is no stream of fresh wind to pass through it ... the air is still, the air is wet.

I hang stuff outside, it gets no drier.

I hang stuff on airers inside, it gets no drier (just starts to smell).

This w/e I was desperate, so I re-"fused" the T/D .... which hasn't been used all year ... and even that struggled to get stuff dry (I was trying to get an awful lot done!) .

I'm so fed up of this damp weather .. someone pls just take it away ... please, pretty please.

Slinky

You should have been here in the fortnight before last Christmas. No heating (new boiler awaiting the return from sick of plumbers), replastered walls and new concrete floors so all the windows were wide open trying to dry the house out, builders in and out of the doors all day long - now that really WAS grim. You'd shut the windows at night and come downstairs in the morning to find them running with water.

However grotty it is now, I remind myself it's a million percent better for us than it was!

Them_2

Slinky wrote: »

..... You'd shut the windows at night and come downstairs in the morning to find them running with water.

6 Pages and no mention of a centrifugal clothes dryer?

As an example; (they are often called "gravity" dryers) :mad:
http://www.empiredirect.co.uk/content/products/details/?modelcode=WHK-28007T

150 watts instead of the 2000w used by a tumble dryer - 10 minutes is enough.

The excess water is funneled into a bowl instead of being evaporated into the air (steam)

They spin at about 3000 RPM so they do crease clothes, however they are perfect for cotton shirts after a 10 minute spin, as they are damp enough to iron without using the steam setting. Anything else will take 1/4 of the time to dry once hung on an indoor clothes dryer.

ksh123

Like lots of you I'm sure I've been worrying about how to dry washing this winter without using the tumble drier - which I can't afford to use. I live in a tiny house with little space for maidens and can only access 2 radiators easily.

Anyway I've seen this ad for an elelctric clothes drier that looks like a maiden and folds out to offer 100ft of drying space. Amazingly it uses less electric than 3 light bulbs and only costs about 3p an hour to run.
I haven't done much research yet but it is available at www.easylifegroup.com for £69.99 Free delivery. There is a smaller one too for £49.99.

Lakeland also sell the larger airer but its £5.00 more and I don't know their delivery costs. But there is a helpful review of the airer on their site.
The Easy Living link is:http://www.easylifegroup.com/products/2381.asp

and the Lakeland one is:http://www.lakeland.co.uk/heated-tower-airer/F/C/washing-laundry/C/washing-laundry-clothes-horses-airers/product/21736 (sorry I don't know how to shorten links ).

Although it is called a "towel airer" both descriptions clearly state that it can be used to dry clothes

I think I will invest in one as it shoud be a real boon and earn its money back quite quickly.:D What do other think??

As I've been mulling the idea over I began to get a dim recollection of a gadget I used when I first left home - more than 35 years ago....it was a metal cabinet on castors slightly smaller than a dishwasher with movable rods inside that you could hang wet clothes on. You then popped on the lid, plugged in the cabinet and some time later - dry clothes. Does anyone remember them? Or is just me who is older than methusulah?

Debt_Free_Chick

ksh123 wrote: »

Amazingly it uses less electric than 3 light bulbs and only costs about 3p an hour to run.

The cost is low as it's only using low levels of electricity - which means low heat, so it's likely to take hours for stuff to dry.

You need the same amount of electricity either way - either a lot over a short period or a little over a long period.

I'd be very wary, but see what others think

whatatwit

Hi, delivery from Lakeland is free when you spend over £50 and there is often a free gift when you spend over £60 ish.

The Lakeland one is 300Kwh, so you could run it 3 hours and use less than 1 Kwh (unit on your meter) so depending upon your unit cost, the priice per hour will vary.

Lakeland do seem to be very good if you have a problem.....( I don't work for them by the way) maybe give them a ring and enquire about guarantees etc.

Certainly sounds cheaper than using a tumble dryer or turning on the heating to dry on the rads.

Magentasue

I've read that these only work well when you constantly move the washing around unless you are laying things on flat. Also, it is likely to take several hours to dry a load so that, as DFC says, it's likely to cost the same as the tumble drier.

Cheapest way has got to be line dry where possible and make use of airing cupboard and radiators when there's heat available. For convenience, tumble drier is hard to beat.