Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

Justamum

Battie wrote: »

Hi everyone - I recently bought a stand alone spin dryer - and it's brilliant.

Have you got a link to the one you bought?

We haven't had a washing machine for over a week now, and we won't be getting another one until Friday afternoon, so it's been a complete pain. I've been doing the washing in the bath, and my fingers have got splits in the ends which are very painful. To top it all, it's been so cold that when I've hung the washing out to try and drip dry before putting it in the TD it's frozen solid very quickly (the clothes could stand up on their own :rotfl:). I've told everyone that I'm not doing any more by hand because it's too painful, and if they aren't going out anywhere they can wear the same clothes for a few days. We should all have enough undies to last until Friday. As soon as my new machine is plugged in it's going to start earning its keep . I'll probably be phoning the estate agent on Monday complaining that it's broken down already :rotfl:

Anyway, I'm quite interested to hear that you can get such a lot more water out of the washing using a spin dryer - it would make using the TD much cheaper, so I'm interested to know which one you bought.

Justamum

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

make sure stuff is dirty before washing it. hopefully that will help a bit

Having washed clothes by hand recently, I've been amazed by how much muck comes off clothes which have only be worn once - and this was the white wash which looked clean.

I know people will think I'm over fussy insisting on things being washed after being worn once, but I had a horrible experience years ago which made me possibly a tad obsessive about it!

When I lived in London we rented a house which had a washing machine. One day I was at work and suddenly got a whiff off my skirt (the sort of smell you get off a tramp who hasn't washed their clothes for a while) I was mortified, but thought it was a one-off. The same thing happened with a dress I wore another day. We then investigated the washing machine and realised that although the it was making all the right noises, and water was going in, for some reason it wasn't actually doing any washing, so nothing was getting clean. I'm sure other people smelt me before I did :eek:

prosaver

Justamum wrote: »

Having washed clothes by hand recently, I've been amazed by how much muck comes off clothes which have only be worn once - and this was the white wash which looked clean.

I know people will think I'm over fussy insisting on things being washed after being worn once, but I had a horrible experience years ago which made me possibly a tad obsessive about it!

When I lived in London we rented a house which had a washing machine. One day I was at work and suddenly got a whiff off my skirt (the sort of smell you get off a tramp who hasn't washed their clothes for a while) I was mortified, but thought it was a one-off. The same thing happened with a dress I wore another day. We then investigated the washing machine and realised that although the it was making all the right noises, and water was going in, for some reason it wasn't actually doing any washing, so nothing was getting clean. I'm sure other people smelt me before I did :eek:

thats funny :rotfl::rotfl::T
I wounder if a tramps reading this in the library... thinking........ eh ?

HoneyBee83

Just found this thread,my tumble dryer broke and i really cant afford to replace it...plus they cost so much to run.
I dry most of my clothes on airers over the radiators but wet clothes around the place makes the house really cold esp during winter! I also have a clothes horse in the upstairs bathroom (en-suite so out of view of visitors) great in the warm months because i can open the window but not in winter,condensation forms and i've noticed mould appearing around the window panes :eek::eek:
Going to go through this thread with a fine tooth comb. I do have a rather large shed just off the back door might try setting up a washing line in there...think i've said this before on here and STILL havent done it :rotfl:

Justamum

prosaver wrote: »

thats funny :rotfl::rotfl::T
I wounder if a tramps reading this in the library... thinking........ eh ?

I wonder if tramps are aware of their own odour? You could always tell when a tramp was in a carriage on the tube - the train would be packed, but one whole carriage would be mysteriously empty! Also, there was always a huge gap around them in a crowd of people - like an exclusion zone.

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back in the dark days of the 1970s it was often a case of two days wear for clothes because with the power cuts you couldn't use a washing machine anyway .Plus of course kids didn't seem to have as many clothes as they do today.Underclothes obviously need changing daily but a cardi or jumper that is fairly clean in this weather I think you could get away with it .I know I did back then.Didn't have much choice really no electric meant no washing.It was hard enough trying to get food cooked in the three hours it was avaiable

Justamum

JackieO wrote: »

back in the dark days of the 1970s it was often a case of two days wear for clothes because with the power cuts you couldn't use a washing machine anyway .Plus of course kids didn't seem to have as many clothes as they do today.Underclothes obviously need changing daily but a cardi or jumper that is fairly clean in this weather I think you could get away with it .I know I did back then.Didn't have much choice really no electric meant no washing.It was hard enough trying to get food cooked in the three hours it was avaiable

Back in the 1970s we didn't have a washing machine. My mum would either have to go to the launderette (when she had spare cash) or, more often than not, would have to wash clothes in the bath. We always had clean clothes every day though. Eventually my mum did get a single tub machine, then a twin tub, before eventually having the luxury of an automatic machine. I remember a mangle too (could have been with the twin tub.)

prosaver

JackieO wrote: »

back in the dark days of the 1970s it was often a case of two days wear for clothes because with the power cuts you couldn't use a washing machine anyway .Plus of course kids didn't seem to have as many clothes as they do today.Underclothes obviously need changing daily but a cardi or jumper that is fairly clean in this weather I think you could get away with it .I know I did back then.Didn't have much choice really no electric meant no washing.It was hard enough trying to get food cooked in the three hours it was avaiable

I dunno about everyone else but ..I wear my clothes a lot and swop them around. (jeans and jumpers)
and wash them when they get dirty only.
is that trampish?

[Deleted User]

wool seems to air and refresh very well. I just hang jumpers on a hanger in an empty room and they are good as new the next day. I can`t do that with man made

Thriftybynature

Have you got a bannister upstairs? Mine can just about fit a double duvet cover on it and with one turning it's dry overnight if it goes on as soon as I am home from work. I've also given the tops of the doors a good clean and a varnish (they are stripped pine) and hang sheets over them. The first lot I did picked up a stain from the pine

I have wee radiator wire attachment thingumys so stuff goes on there and I close the curtains so I can't see it! I do try to keep stuff upstairs drying so I can't see it downstairs.

I do find the timing helps - if you have one of those machines that has a delay, or if you don't mind having washed stuff sitting in the machine all day then time it so that when you get home from work (and the heating is on!) the first thing you do is hang out washing. That way it gets one full night and a morning of heating which I find is ok to dry most stuff.

I also hang t-shirts & shirts on hangers and they go in the bathroom on shower rails and suction-pad hooks on the tiled wall over the radiator.

To avoid the complete 'Widow Twanky' washerwoman look I also try to do a mix of washing so that there is one big sheet, a few bits on hangers and the rest fitting onto the 2 radiator rails in my bedroom. That seems to cut down on having lots and lots of any one thing hanging around (pun intended!) at any one time.

I do have a tumble drier so towels get fluffed up when they are nearly dry, which is a big luxury for me as I hate using it!