Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

mummy2jack

I always hang mine on coat hangers upstairs ....I never let my washing mount up over the autumn/winter months.

irenee

Even a short time on a line outside gets rid of a lot of the moisture - even better with a bit of a breeze

I have three lines inside my garage and pop the washing on them overnight - then pop it back out in the morning

On rainy days I leave the garage windows and personal door open creating a through draught

It is very rare for me to have to do any drying inside the house

foxgloves

I'm still hanging mine out, & will do so for as long as there's at least a bit of a breeze. When it's just too cold/wet/damp, I have an airer which I stand in front of one of the storage heaters in the spare bedroom. If I have more than will go on that, which isn't often, I hang things in the bathroom, which is generally nice & warm. Small things like hand towels, tea towels, etc, dry really well in front of the oven door.....and, you'll probably laugh at this one, but last winter when a slight miscalculation on the washing front led to a pants shortage for one member of this household.....the speediest way to get them dry was on top of the slow-cooker! (Tho' he did say they had a faint aura of chilli about them!!) :-)

mishmogs

I hang shirts on hangers on the airing cupboard door along with trousers on clippies, have got two airers looped together in the airing cupboard so they hang down and I dry socks, undies, lightweight stuff in there overnight, even though the tank is well lagged, it still dries off. On the bannister I have two radiator airers which overhang the stairwell and I dry washing on these too. Large sheets, duvet covers hang over the bannisters but preferably, hang it all outside over the winter period even for an hour or two. Just love the smell....

Jessie11

I just put mine on a clothes airer near an open window (I'm in a student flat so no outside or tumble dryer) they take a few hours to dry but it's a lot quicker than having the window closed.

sheba

I'm thinking to get one of the old wooden ceiling pulley airers and having it in the wasted headroom bit above the stairs, completely out the way, so no washing all over radiators/house (which personally drives me bonkers). Can anyone see why that particular place would be a problem? x x

valk_scot

Talking of it being too cold to dry outside...it actually makes towels really soft if you let them freeze on the line overnight. My mum used to do this with cloth nappies, so she told me.

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When I lived in my previous house I had a four line pull out pully that when across my kitchen (I had a big square kitchen and I would put most of the stuff on the four lines.Monday was usually wash day when I was a SAHM so I'd do my washing (twin tub in those days circa 1970) and then if it was raining hang all the stuff up that I could and in the afternoon bake some cakes for the children coming home from school and the heat from the oven used to get most things dry enough to iron, if not that night then I'd leave it up overnight with the kitchen door shut and it would be dry by the morning.My youngest DD always says the smell of rock cakes cooking always reminds her of Mondays in the wintertime. Great for doing sheets and duvet covers. Now I live in a far smaller house and do a wash load as and when I need to (usually when the machine is full enough (there is only me) and I have a conservatory which I have my airer in and hang things on that.I have never owned or wanted a tumble dryer I'm far too frugal for one of those and I have managed for 48 years without one and my clothes all get dried.

Ada_Doom

I have old beams in my living room which have weird slots/hole all along them (house is very old, and the beam apparently came from a ship). I hang hangers off the beams at night and the clothes dry brilliantly, and I don't even have central heating. People often say how lovely the beams look and I always think the best thing about them is their clothes drying ability!

Ruari_Mclachlan

We have a Shieling Drying tent, its a tent which drys your clothes. Works like a wind tunnel. They do a free trial! with free delivery and someone even came and set it up search Shieling Dryer in google. We cut our electric bills in half.
Everyone should have one of these.
Ruari