Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

oldtractor

old fashioned victorian ceiling clothes driers "sheila maids". Easy to install available in good hardwear stores. excellent.

suki1964

A clothes horse. Dont let the washing build up that you are fighting for space on it. Towel rails on the rads. Hung on coat hangers in door frames.

A blowy day ( just use more pegs) will dry your clothes just as quick as a sunny one so as long as rain isnt forecast and you get them in before it starts to get dark, they will be dry enough if left on the clothes horse over night

Ive never used a tumble drier, always used a clothes line and horse

mardatha

I agree re the clothes airers, but do washing little and often so they dont get over crowded. Hang stuff outside on any day theres a tiny bit of wind and stand the airers near the fire overnight, the clothes will be dry in the morning. Also I stand mine in front of the back door which is very draughty, the clothes cut out the cold and hopefully dry a wee bit as well

kippers

Even in the depths of winter clothes will nearly dry outside on the washing line provided there is a little breeze and it isn't damp/foggy

Pink.

I've never had or wanted a tumble dryer and use a clothes horse which lives in the en suite shower in winter (obviously only when the shower isn't being used) so it's out of the way and use radiators for things that need drying urgently. The shower room is well ventilated and the washing is usually dry within 24 hours.

We have an existing thread with lots more advice:

Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

valk_scot

I have a long narrow cupboard where the central heating pipes run. I have a pull out cord clothes airer in there...it holds 12 t-shirts or the equivelent. Shirts get dried on hangers in there too. I have radiator racks in each bedroom and each person gets their own undies and socks to dry on their own radiator. There's also a radiator rack in the dining room for teatowels and small stuff. Sheets and towels go outside as much as possible then get finished off over the bannistairs. I've got an accordian clothes horse for overflow stuff but I don't usually need it. I do two loads of washing every second day and that mostly keeps me up to date.

BitterAndTwisted

It isn't too cold at the moment to dry laundry outside. As long as the temps are above freezing and there's even a slight breeze things will dry. I'd avoid leaving things out overnight because of the dew.

tanith

I agree with those who do dry washing outside all through the Winter , as long as its above freezing and with a breeze things do dry... my neighbour says I'm mad putting out washing when its cold but I know from her OH thats she just can't be bothered going outside in the cold to put it out... lol

NorthLondonChick

I managed to pick up a spin dryer for £5 off ebay (tho poor OH had to carry it on 2 trains then a half mile walk home - I was NOT popular i can tell you! ). It is fantastic. Each load removes around a pint and a half of water - more if its towels. It looks a bit rusty and grim but we're planning on painting it llike R2D2 so hopefully it'll look slightly better then! I think it costs around 0.75p to run for 5 mins (I split my loads into 4 as they spin quieter and better then so 3p ish). Then everything gets hung on the clothes horse and is dry in a few hrs/overnight. I have radiator hangers too but not had to use them yet.

Prior to my spin dryer i put shirts/tops on hangers and hung them from curtain poles to let the sun get to them, underwear on those multi-peg things and everything else went on the clothes horse. Sometimes the big things like towels would take 3 days to dry and would start smelling and so had to be re-washed. I didnt have any heating in that flat so i couldn't put things over radiators. I had a balcony but we werent allowed to dry our washing on it (snobby estate!) so i'd sit it in front of the open doors if it wasnt too cold. Otherwise having a fan blowing on it helped a bit too. Even tho it was cold, it still helped move the air around.

I'm hoping to get a whirly thing in the garden once we get round to sorting it out. We have a cheap gazebo thing which i intend to put over it semi-permenately in the rainier season. Am trying to convince OH to let me have a pulley in the kitchen but he's not convinced. Otherwise you can get those retractable washing lines which you could put inside instead. So its all hidden away when you're not using it.

I'd defo recommend a spinner tho if you can get one fairly cheaply x

Janey3

Not OS, but I'm going to put my washing to dry in the greenhouse this winter!