Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

Melonade

I've got 4 of those too joolsybools :T Got 2 over the top of the stairs and 1 on my sons radiator and the other on our bedroom radiator. I've got a bigger airer in the spare room aswell and hang stuff from hangers on the door frame of the spare room. I've got 2 of my sons school shirts on hangers on his curtain rail with the window open

I do have a tumble dryer but hate using it and only do if I have to get my OH's work gear dry. I don't have the heating on yet so I have to turn the clothes a few times to speed up the drying.

Lily-Lu

I'm another that has washing hanging over doors and backs of chairs. I've also got a maiden that's in my bedroom, which I place near the open window.
There's only three adults here though, so it's not too bad

shelley1977

Hi,there are 6 of us at home.I struggle with washing as half of our clothes cant go in the dryer and its taking days on the airer but for everything else i use the tumble dryer otherwise my whole downstairs would be covered in dirty or wet washing.It would be nice for an easier cheaper way to dry clothes but i dont think there is one once the weather gets worse.

rachbc

clairehi wrote: »

Working fulltime and having 2 kids who come home wearing their packed lunches on their shirts, waiting for the weather to be good to do the washing is not an option. I do have a concertina type clothes airer www.chemistdirect.co.uk/minky-trio-concertina-clothes-airer-white_1_40573.htmlwhich I use for drying synthetics and things that will be ironed. In a south facing room everything dries quickly. However I cannot stand air dried towels or underwear, it all goes hard and scratchy! I am also not into the "Widow Twanky's laundry" effect of clothes draped over all radiators...

it costs about 30p a time to run my tumble dryer according to the instruction booklet and my current electric tariff so running it a few times a week is not going to bankrupt us.

here here - I've given up feeling bad about using the TD. Today is a lovely day here but this morning was misty and murky so I didn't hang washing out and it will be nearly dark when I get home. I have an airer over the bath and one round the dining room rad but we are about to 'do up' our dinding room and I'm darn well not hanging washing in there after spending £1500 making it look nice! I might start usign the south facing spare room instead but I'm not having it hanging the lounge or bedrooms as I hate it!

AprilLady

We have a very small kitchen, so while I'm cooking things in the oven (things that don't smell too much!), I put a clothers airer next to it and shut the kitchen door. Then I open the oven door after it's off to let the warm air waft out and help dry the washing even more. Things are still taking daaaays to dry though!

esmf73

We're a family of 5. I never put jeans in the TD - and try not to put adult trousers in there either. Prefer to use it just for school uniform / underwear / part dried towels. BUT - with two young boys who are not always dry every night, I do have to use it for duvets and sheets occasionally. If I have a choice then I prefer to dry outside, but not always possible. Otherwise I put on the airer in the conservatory (heat from the sun dries things); put sheets on doors and hang shirts and things where I can. Just gets difficult if we go out and EVERYTHING gets wet, so I have 5 peoples washing and drying to do and 5 bodies to warm up!!

mommygoose

joolsybools wrote: »

Get 1 or 2 sets of these - there are 4 to a pack (4.99 a pack) and then hang them over your doors. I then put tops on hangers and trousers/skirts on the clippy hangers. You can hang at least 2 items per rail, so 8 items this way

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?storeId=10001&catalogId=1500002451&langId=-1&searchTerms=TOWEL+AIRER

Means you can get away with less ironing too

Thankyou:) Just reserved some. What a bargain!

zarazara

I have a wooden rack to hang hings in, fixed to the ceiling a couple of metal stand up clothes airers and radiators.

schoolhouse

We don't have a tumble drier so clothes go on an airer(two of them). I have a dehumidifier which is a godsend. It was bought to tackle the damp issues we had/have and now does double duty with clothes drying( it has a clothes drying function).

Caterina

We freecycled our TD as it was used randomly by our kids when they wanted to wash and then dry ONE piece of clothing that they wanted to wear! We said that they might as well set fire to a bunch of tenners and dry their clothes on that heat, but as most teenagers they did not take a bit of notice, so we took the drastic decision to just give the blasted machine away.

For the last few years we have relied on the fresh air of the garden when the weather is dry (even in winter we manage to at least part-dry the washing on the line as it rarely gets to sub-zero here in London). For any washing done on rainy days we rely on door-tops, backs of chairs, clothes horse in front of wood fire, radiators (when central heating is on) and for large items such as sheets and quilt covers the top of the bannister works beautifully.