Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

hmbee

I TD bedding and towels only. My aim is to get rid of the TD altogether this year, but not sure I could cope with drying bedding in the house?
Small bits underwear, socks some of my toddlers clothes go on 2 peg hangers which I hang at the bathroom window.
Shirts and most tops go on hangers, on the shower curtain rail.
The rest goes on two airers which live in the lounge.

lilac-straw

I put all clothes on hangers as if they were dried and ironed but instead of putting them in the wardrobe, I hang them on overdoor hooks which allow about five items to be hung together. Sometimes I rotate the clothes that are drying to allow full circulation of air but this is not always necessary. I have about eight door hooks in total. You can buy the door hooks at most supermarkets or door to door catalogues. They are about 99p for two. I use them in the summer too as clothes do not need much ironing as the creases fall out when clothes are drying. HTH somebody.

Little_Miss_Frugal

I'm really lucky as my airing cupboard is huge and I am able to stand my clothes airer in there next to the tank and I have enough room for another airer in there if I need to. OH put a couple of rails up in there for me too so I hang items straight onto the hangers and hang them up to dry. Works really well. I must confess that I do still use the TD for towels and jeans from time to time as it is so much quicker.

quietheart

i use a big clothes airer with a dehumidifier on underneath. dries the clothes i no time and stops the house becoming condensation central.

Lola23

misskool wrote: »

Clothes get dried on an airer in the bathroom. During the daytime, I open a small window to air it. Otherwise, there's an extractor fan that goes on for 10 minutes everytime someone steps in there.

I personally don't like clothes that are tumble dried and they only take a day or overnight to dry on the airer.

I've seen the heated airers that you can get from lakeland and such, now just wondering if it's worth it.
(like this one http://www.lakeland.co.uk/heated-tower-airer/F/product/21736)

Hi miskool

I bought something similar to this a while back. It's smaller...more like an ironing board size that folds out. I never use it. I found it impossible to dry stuff. Even drying socks or pants was a pain..it would only dry (eventually) the part of sock that was on the rod. I got it from 1 of these online shops.

Lola

niksyg

I was amazed at how little electricity I use and I have used a dryer to dry all my washing since late October! I did a meter reading and since 1st Oct, up until now I have used £75 worth of electricity....thought it'd be loads more! So at £25 a month that's pretty good, so using the dryer can't be all that bad....
but we don't have a TV so guess that saves electricity?!
It's a condenser TD so I can use the collected warm water to do the washing up which makes me feel less guilty!!
Only other thing is use airing cupboard, or hang in bathroom which gets warm.

Mumof2_2

I had exactly the same problem but DH bought me a wooden clothes airer which we hang above the stairs - it's on a rope/pulley system and got loads of room to dry stuff. I put everything on hangers and it's dry in most cases within 24 hours. Makes life MUCH easier.

Wickedkitten

Our clothes are still hung out on our washing line, just hung up a load of sheets earlier actually and it's windy enough that if it doesn't rain overnight, they should be dry by the morning.

Lola23

Wickedkitten wrote: »

Our clothes are still hung out on our washing line, just hung up a load of sheets earlier actually and it's windy enough that if it doesn't rain overnight, they should be dry by the morning.

I would love to hang my stuff out but it's baltic and would def be like boards :eek: . I can hardly get out door for all the ice.

I do normally hang stuff out as long as it's not raining, and it's always out early morn. Hope this weather goes away soon.

Lola

LittleBrownFrog

We're looking at getting rid of our tumble drier altogether this year, but I'm reluctant at the moment because dd2 is in full time cloth nappies, and the two boys still wear night nappies. My friend uses a dehumidifier to dry her laundry - puts it on in the room where the washing is hanging. We're looking into whether this is a more efficient way of drying. I tend to put things on airers in front of radiators & over the heated towel rail in the utility room - nappies take ages though!