Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

RHYSDAD

We use an airer for the toddlers bits, dry after a day or so. The big bits get hung on hangers on the front of our built-in-wardrobes, on the doors and over the rail on the landing. Job done......

huxley

Hi another one who uses airers on the landing here,large items go over the banister rails, sock drier for small items the rest on the airer, I find the landing the best place because of the air flow also my boiler is in a cupboard on the landing I leave the cupboard door open so that any heat from the boiler is drying my washing and not just heating the cupboard.

Hardup_Hester

I use a maiden for my washing & also the bannister for very big items.

KathysBoy

lil_me wrote: »

Agree with the dehumidifier, clothes struggle to dry and get smelly in a damp room. That damp can just be as much as would cause condensation on windows. This is I think why they dry better on the landing or similar where people don't sleep etc. I got my dehumidifier from Freecycle.

I agree with this. If you don´t use a dehumidifier you may cause damp and mould problems, as all you are doing is putting moisture into the air, so you need to ventilate properly. Even if you dry them on the landing you´re still putting the moisture into the air.

We hang our washing on a clothes maiden in a room overnight with the dehumidifer on, and in most cases they dry overnight. Thicker things such as towels take about a day. When you use one of these you will be amazed by the amount of water that you empty. E.g After the clothes have dried overnight there is about 5 litres of water to empty away. !!

We´ve been using one for about 15 years, best thing we ever bought.

parsonswife8

We hang all the shirts on hangers and put them on the curtain rail, which is a very sturdy one.
Also have one of those plastic round hangers with all the pegs on, for hanging smalls and socks.
That leaves the clothes airer free for all the other items, which stands near one of the gas heating vents.
We have a tumble dryer.washing machine but I only use the tumble drier for about 15 minutes, to take the edge off sometimes.
I hate it when the weather is so cold and damp.
:mad:

Lalaladybird

What is a maiden? Is it another name for an airer?

KathysBoy

Lalaladybird wrote: »

What is a maiden? Is it another name for an airer?

Sorry, I think its a northerm expression (I'm a mancunian), and although technically Pink-winged is correct on the one she links to, the expression has widened to include what you called an airer. I use one like this, but essentially my point was that you can use anything to hang them on, providing you use a dehumdifier. e.g I sometimes hang shirts on hangars and then hook them over the shower rail, and pop the dehumdifier into the bathroom.

Torry_Quine

The dryer which is fixed to the roof is what is called a pulley here presumably as you pull it up. The one that is able to be folded up and moved around is called a clothes horse.

irishwexford

I have a large tumble drier in garage but decided to join the energy saving challenge so am monitoring my gas and electric each week. I decided not to use dishwasher or drier for a week to see what the savings would be. I have egyptian cotton towels which i always tumble on low heat to keep them fluffy but hung them on clothes horse in hall and to my amazement they have dried and although not quite so fluffy are ok. Only two of us so this is not so bad and I have yet to see how long jeans will take. I will check my energy again on Monday and if I see savings I will carry on with this. Washing up takes a bit of getting used to but have decided will only use dw if I have family around or I do baking. I am trying to keep to my standing order amount each month and drier is expensive to run with so many rainy days. When my children were small I used to have a line thing fixed to wall over bath and this worked very well.

nesssie1702

I managed to get some washing dried outside on Wednesday! It's December....:eek:

Normally, I dry any washing in the back porch on two clothes airers which are next to the oil boiler and there's also a little window that I can open, so I don't cause too much condensation.