Getting Washing Dry

black-saturn

I agree. Sometimes I have to put the heating on JUST to get the washing dry and then I'm too hot and have to open windows

Chipps

I would second the idea of a dehumidifier. For a start, my dh works in the double glazing business & his pet hate is condensation, so I am not allowed to put washing on the rads (when he is in!). We do have a large walk-in airing cupboard which has the gas boiler in it, so I have put a rail up & hang washing on coathangers on that.
But a friend of ours who has 4 boys found herself with no washing line when their extension was being built, so they got a dehumidifier & hung the washing round it on clothes horses. It worked like a dream - no condensation either, and she could get a lot more dry at one time than with a tumble dryer. As angelatgraceland said, they don't cost much to run because they are not on all the time. We now have one, and it definitely keeps the condensation level down - and provides distilled water for the iron at the same time!

shammyjack

I have a creel over the bath - open window a bit - get 16 inch stand fan ( uses only 60watts on full ) turn on to blow at clothes.

Result, Instant windy Day !

shammy

THIRZAH

I hang shirts on hangers on the shower curtain rail- it hasn't fallen down yet. Socks, undies go on one of those radiator racks. I even hang one or two light tops on hangers from the curtain rails in the spare room and DD's bathroom-they're at the back of the house so nobody can see them

savingpennies

I put only very quick drying items on the radiators e.g. tights. One of my neighbours years ago put all her washing on the radiators and used to turn the heat up. When she couldn't close her front windows properly, the joiner thought having all of that damp washing about had caused the windows to warp. I have a rack over the bath and a free standing rack in the garage. A few years ago I bought two brackets and 4 long lengths of wood to create an old fashioned rack that is suspended from the garage ceiling

angelatgraceland

In my last house we had a very sunny porch-nearly all glass. I used to leave the airers in there. at first DH was horrified-that was until 2 of the neighbours further down the rd COPIED me!

HOLsale

Rikki wrote:

I put the airer infront of the patio window and use any heat from the sun. If not it has to be the radiators, airing cupboard and final choice tumble drier if I haven't got the time or its jeans and towels.

we used to use those over the radiator airers in the window... basically you hook 3 or 4 of them together and then hook them over the top of the curtain rod so that the sun dries all your smalls quickly

works very well but it's probably best hung up in a sunny window away from nosey neighbours :rotfl: (we were on skye at the time, they were nosey but they had a long drive to walk up to look at my smalls )

HOLsale

calleyw wrote:

I have a old fashion rack that you raise to the ceiling for when I can't put the washing outside. Had it when I was in one bedroom ground floor flat. And took it when we moved.

Leave the window open and it would dry. Some times I would use a de-humdifier as well to take some of the moisture out of the air.


Calley

we had a pulley at the last flat we lived in and it was brilliant

it was in the kitchen (smallest kitchen ever, i swear!) but we had 10ft ceilings so the clothes were pulled right up and over the tops of the cabinets. at first i worried about them getting greasy or taking on kitchen smells but it wasn't a problem. sometimes we left the window open but usually they just dried from the heat of our kitchen. as we were on the first floor we got plenty of warm air from our flat and the flat above so clothes dried very quickly. when i was being particularly clever i could get two loads of wash on one pulley, wish i had one now!

pulleys and mangles are some of the best ever laundry inventions

Gingham_Ribbon

I would LOVE a pulley but my husband thinks the ceiling won't hold it. :rolleyes:

calleyw

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

I would LOVE a pulley but my husband thinks the ceiling won't hold it. :rolleyes:

Ummmmmm Why does he think that.

You don't just drill holes willy nilly in the ceiling. You find the joists in the ceiling and place it there. As otherwise it is just plaster holding up the pulley for about 30 seconds :rotfl:

Yours

Calley