Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

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Hi Jody,

There's an earlier thread with lots of tips and advice on drying washing in bad weather that may help:

Any suggestions for drying clothes indoors

I'll add your thread to it later.

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jackieglasgow

Why do the 4 and 5 year olds need clean clothes every day? If it isn't soiled, I would either put it straight back on the next day or leave it to air over night and put it back in the cupboard. For example, I imagine they are wearing vests, pants, t shirts, jumpers, trousers, and jackets. Clean socks and pants every day, two to three days out of a vest (they don't get BO at that age), two wears out of a t shirt, two or more out of a jumper if no stains. If they are wearing uniform to school, get them changed into play clothes when they come home, which should last a few days if not soiled and they are just at home. You could probably cut down the amount of times you wash your own clothes too, by thinking about if things are really dirty or just worn.

Butterfly_Brain

I would take the lot down to the launderette and put it in one of their big dryers

JodyBPM

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Why do the 4 and 5 year olds need clean clothes every day? If it isn't soiled, I would either put it straight back on the next day or leave it to air over night and put it back in the cupboard. For example, I imagine they are wearing vests, pants, t shirts, jumpers, trousers, and jackets. Clean socks and pants every day, two to three days out of a vest (they don't get BO at that age), two wears out of a t shirt, two or more out of a jumper if no stains. If they are wearing uniform to school, get them changed into play clothes when they come home, which should last a few days if not soiled and they are just at home. You could probably cut down the amount of times you wash your own clothes too, by thinking about if things are really dirty or just worn.

They wear school uniform, and come home everyday with it dirty, paint down it, dinner down it etc. I used to change them when they got home, but found I wash washing school uniform AND another set of clothes when I did this! My children are mucky pups! Occasionally I can get away with re-using their polo shirts, but generally, that's about it! They don't wear vests, but I would re-use them if they did!

Me, I'm happy to be skanky, and wear the same clothes for a while (bar undies!) - my washing accounts for a teeny tiny fraction of the family's washing! DH is a bit of a horror - clean shirt every day for work, clean jumper most days, plus at the weekend he seems to wear one set of clothes for out and about (jeans and jumpers etc) and another set for slobbing indoors (trackies and sweatshirt) and then after a two day weekend puts both full sets of clothes in the wash! But to be fair, when I sort the washing to see if I can sneak any back in the cupboard unwashed, they all seem to be dirty! I think I must just have a mucky family!

I think it is the bedding because DS isn't night trained that is the biggest problem, it takes up a whole load in the machine, and takes ages to dry, several times a week!

I like the idea of a launderette - I've not seen one round here, but I'm sure there must be one - I'm going to google and find out!

Battie

Hi everyone - I recently bought a stand alone spin dryer - and it's brilliant. Only small (same size as one of those big round pedal bins) so isn't too bad to store. Gets loads more water out than the washing machine even with its fastest spin - at least a pint - and releases the washing machine for putting the next load in while you're spinning! Give everything a quick shake as soon as you get it out and hang on hangers over doorframes or curtain poles - they dry so much quicker and/or practically ready to iron, then hang to finally dry ready for putting away. Also, if you do want to tumble dry straight away, less time in the dryer or even good for less time outside on the line!

esmf73

Why not spin the washing again once the cycle has stopped? I do this when I can remember and it dries quicker.

Battie

Tried that before I got the spin dryer but not only did it tie up the washing machine for a lot longer, the spin dryer does 2800rpm compared to the 1200 max on the washing machine. The difference is amazing, it comes out dried to iron-dry :-)

whiteguineapig

i spend £1.60 - £1.80 drying 2 loads of washing at the launderette

jackieglasgow

Can you not just sponge down the dribbles on their clothes to reduce a bit of washing? I am all for making life a bit easier! I would also ask the school if they have enough painting aprons, and if not, suggest they send out requests for old shirts for the children, they shouldn't need clean school clothes everyday - I am the mother of the muckiest boy known to man, and feel your pain!

BitterAndTwisted

I'm with JackieGlasgow on the spot-cleaning. One small stain or mark would not justify washing the whole thing in my book. Also jumpers or anything not worn next to the skin really do not need laundering after a couple of wears.

If you can afford to run the tumble-drier I would most certainly use it. Having pies and piles of wet laundry drying on radiators everywhere with the central heating on full-blast is likely to be more expensive than running the t/d and you're running the risk of causing condensation and mould in this very cold-snap. The temp outside only needs to be a few degrees above freezing with a stiff breeze to dry, so I would try and get as much as possible outside while it's light even if it's only for an hour or two. Granted that night not be this week judging by the forecast.