Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

bacardi66

I was wondering if anyone here has used electric heated airers? Ive seen them online but not sure if they would be worth getting, apparently they are very cheap to run.

This is the kind of thing I was thinking of http://www.lakeland.co.uk/21736/Dry-Soon-Heated-Tower-Dryer?src=gfeed

Ive got a tumble dryer but some of my clothes can't be tumble dried so I tend to dry stuff outside or on the radiators and use the dryer to finish off towels and bedding, but at this time of the year I really don't want to put the heating on and it keeps raining!

skilly

bacardi66 wrote: »

I was wondering if anyone here has used electric heated airers? Ive seen them online but not sure if they would be worth getting, apparently they are very cheap to run.

Ive got a tumble dryer but some of my clothes can't be tumble dried so I tend to dry stuff outside or on the radiators and use the dryer to finish off towels and bedding, but at this time of the year I really don't want to put the heating on and it keeps raining!

I have a electric airer I got mine from Lakeland about a year ago cost about£75.00 then at the time I thought that was a lot of money ,but I can get 4loads of washing on mine ,so I do not use my tumble dryer any more ,I love it ,they say it costs about 4.5p a hour.if you buy one and do not get on with it they will take it back .

Emm-in-a-pickle

I often dry stuff indoors. Simply hang everything on coathangers - I hang these in the doorways upstairs, leave doors open and a couple of small windows slightly open. There`s enough air circulating to dry most stuff in a da, that`s without any heating on. Towels and sheets, etc., I hang on those clip-hangers you get with trousers and skirts.

Mrs_Arcanum

Conservatories are handy drying rooms as they trap the heat nicely in the summer.

elsien

One of those ceiling height clothes hangers in a little room leading off the end of the kitchen. I leave the little window ajar to let some air in, and as it's next to the boiler and off the kitchen it's probably slightly warmer than the rest of the house. Takes about 24 hours for the heavy stuff like jeans to dry.

Tink_04

Big stuff like covers and towels go over the banister too

bramble1

bacardi66 wrote: »

I was wondering if anyone here has used electric heated airers? Ive seen them online but not sure if they would be worth getting, apparently they are very cheap to run.

This is the kind of thing I was thinking of http://www.lakeland.co.uk/21736/Dry-Soon-Heated-Tower-Dryer?src=gfeed

Ive got a tumble dryer but some of my clothes can't be tumble dried so I tend to dry stuff outside or on the radiators and use the dryer to finish off towels and bedding, but at this time of the year I really don't want to put the heating on and it keeps raining!

Wow - one of them would be ideal!

busiscoming2

I use a tumble dryer as I hate seeing it hanging everywhere. Having said that some things can't be tumbled so I hang them on an airer or hangers but unless the heating is on it can take ages (or so it seems).

My mum used to have a Flatley dryer thing (not sure about the spelling) it was about the size of a washing machine with wooden rails inside, that heated up electrically, I suppose it was the forerunner to the tumble dryer.
Just tried googling it and found this instead if anyone is interested. http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/P~138248~Proteam+Electric+Heated+Folding+Clothes+Airer its only £3.

PasturesNew

I lived in a studio flat and bought a cheap/folding airer that would fit into the shower cubicle. Yes it takes days to dry, but I had no other choice/space/outside space to dry washing, so it had to be an airer.... and I measured the shower cubicle first in case anybody came round I could shove it in there because the studio room was too small to put the airer into a corner/against a wall so it was always slap bang in the middle of the floor. If the shower room had had an outside wall/window I'd have put it in there, but it didn't.

YORKSHIRELASS

I used to laugh at my Mum because she always hangs washing out, even if its a bit grey outside. Actually this is a good idea and I do it myself now. Its surprising sometimes how much they have dried. My strategy is:

1. Try and save washing for when its good weather, things like sheets and towels can wait a bit sometimes. Also only wash things when they need washing!
2. Wash later in the day and put clothes over the airer overnight. I can cope with this better than having clothes hanging about during the day. If I put a load over the airer in the lounge before I go to bed on a weeknight it can stay there until tea time the next day and its not bothering anyone.
3. Lighter things on coathangers over an open window dry in no time.
4. I use the tumble dryer to "finish things off" if necessary before ironing. I rarely tumble dry anything straight out of the washing machine.

My airer is on its last legs and I was thinking of buying those standalone rotary dryers, the sort of things caravanners use. I could even lift it out through the patio doors and bring it back in again if the weather's a bit dodgy.