Any suggestions for drying washing indoors

faerie~spangles

Over radiator dryer thingies. Heating is off.

Shirts on hangers on doors.

Bedding thrown over doors.

Place looks like a Chinese laundry most of the time:rotfl:

Rainy-Days

frugaller wrote: »

Hiya

I don't have my radiators on in the summer and if I dry laundry in my house on the radiators in the winter then my house goes damp :-(

There must be something that I should be doing but I'm not, but I just don't know what...


TIA
Frugaller

You are not doing anything wrong in winter except having to dry it indoors like the rest of us! I'm afraid as much as it grieves me to do it, I have to use the tumble dryer! I wash the clothes late at night put them on the airers in the kitchen and then in the morning - when they are about nearly dry - finish them off in the tumble dryer. If it's towels or sheets then they have to go in the tumble dryer from the off because the amount of water that they hold causes so much condensation that it's not worth the agro of having mould and damp develop!

Other than that, there is not much else you can do really!

pigpen

I put it out on the line and throw it in the dryer to air off if it gets rained on. Jeans/towels stay out until they are dry. or if I have room I will put them on the airer.. dresses and woollies always go on the airer.

There are 10 of us.. including 2 grotty babies that make me and OH grotty too, 6 cats, 1 is incontinent!!! and the rabbit

Wickedkitten

I just hang it out because if I sat around waiting for it to be a sunny day, then it would never get done. There have been more than a few times when it would get rained on but it ends up drying before too long anyway because of the wind.

Mind even in the winter, if it's windy out then the washing is going out. Did have a bad bit two Christmases ago where we got a bit squiffy, forgot it was hanging out, and had frozen washing on the line then had to leave it to thaw out so it wouldn't snap.

bearcub

We don't have a tumble drier, nor will ever have one, partly because of the running cost, and partly because we don't have space in our little bungalow. We do have advantages, though (1) the Isle of Wight, although having had a lot more rain than usual, gets more sun than most other areas (2) we have a conservatory (3) there are only two of us (4) we're retired, and spend a lot of time outside with horses or gardening, so we keep clean clothes to a minimum!

Having said that, though, when our DDs were at home, we were both working, we didn't have a TD then, either, but managed without the conservatory somehow. BUT we did have a launderette nearby, where we used to take bedding and towels if we were getting desperate.

jpscloud

I'm doing my annual washing mountain marathon, along with the wettest summer EVER. I have cracked and bought a Dri-buddy, I've no room for a TD and the cost would be too high anyway.

This is the first summer I have refused to put on the gas boiler for hot water, after finding out it was costing me too much.

The Dri-buddy uses less electricity than a TD, and I'm impressed with it so far (lined heavy linen curtains dry in an hour). You have to turn heavy things over, and drape them just right, during drying, but the whole contraption is actually very user friendly.

themull1

I use my dryer in the winter or wet weather, i hate clothes drying all over the house...i used to use my dryer all the time, and only got my first washing line last year - i'm 43!!

sparrer

There's just one of me so not difficult, and I absolutely will not have another dryer, I spent a fortune on elec when the family (five of us) was all at home. First thing I do is common sense really - watch the weather! If it's going to rain all day there's no point in doing laundry. Otherwise it goes out and if I have to take it in so be it. In fact that has happened so little I can't remember the last time I had to. If all the smalls are on one or more of those little multi-peg things it's only a case of having to move one hanger. I put flannels, tea towels, dusters etc on one as well, which saves time and line space. Fortunately I also have a good kitchen so if I have to resort to a rack it takes up a very small corner.

Re condensation/damp, you should always have a window open even a small way, especially when drying indoors.

ZsaZsa

I'm doing that running in and out the house like a mad woman dance A LOT. If it stays dry for about an hour I can get most things almost dry because its so warm and windy. Then it all gets finished on the airer (a lakeland heated airer but its too warm to switch it on at the mo.). Have had to finish one load of towels and bedding in the TD but really trying to resist it.Is quite a mission though, and normally I'd wash winter stuff, mattress protectors etc in the summer hols but am only washing the essentials for now.

frugaller

Wow, thank you so much! I feel much better now, I was feeling guilty using the tumble dryer, and it is so expensive. I wish I had a conservatory, but I don't :-(

Has anyone ever dried their clothes in a greenhouse? Just wondering... :-)

Frugaller