Getting Washing Dry

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When I lived at my previous house I had one of those pull-out thingy's that is fixed to one side of the kitchen and the other end goes over two hooks on the other side .When pulled out I had four lines about four inches apart.Voila four washing lines.
I always did my wash first, then hung it up and made a big batch of Rock cakes and bunged them in the oven My washing always smelt of fresh made cakes. My kids are all grown up now and got families of their own so I don't have a problem anymore I just wait till it looks like a nice day, and do the wash.I have enough clothes to last me more than a week so nothing is needed that much. Mind you my daughters both say that the smell of rock cakes always remind them of mondays washday, and cakes for tea.

Savvy_Sue

Mumstheword wrote:

so I've ordered myself a 5ft high airer on wheels which can open up in different ways depending on how much space you need to use.

The thing I find with airers is that you need to get one where the bars are off-set, so that the clothes on the top bars aren't touching the clothes on the lower bars. I've never understood the ones that have 3 sections which you are (presumably) meant to stand in a Z-shape, but all the washing overlaps. I've always disconnected one bit and propped it against a wall, then re-connected the other two bits into an upside-down V shape.

lin473

I have a variation of the pulley -type drier in my kitchen .It is attatched to one wall and a four-line airer is pulled across and hooked onto the other wall.Very simple to fit,and dries all the 'smalls' of my family of seven.The drawback is that I have to climb onto a stool to load and unload the clothes as it cannot be lowered and raised like a wooden pulley.
Very cheap-mine cost less than a fiver from Morrisons.

[Deleted User]

I have just had a thought ,does anyone remember back in the 1960s there used to be a dryer called a Flatley.It was a white box about the size of a fridge and the top opened up and there were a row of wooden bars that you could hang your clothes on.I can remember drying my kids nappies in them.I don't know if it's possible to but one anymore though

Chipps

Ooh yes, my mum had one of those when I was little, only ours was cream with red trim. It used to sit in the conservatory, and there was a lovely smell of warm drying washing when she opened the lid. I never did discover what was inside though, as I wasn't tall enough to see in!

ff999

Would anyone out there know where I could buy a pulley operated clothes airer? I've found some on the web but there are all old style, and wondered where I could get hold of one that was made of similar stuff to the stand up airers.
Thanks in advance.

squeaky

ff999 wrote:

Would anyone out there know where I could buy a pulley operated clothes airer? I've found some on the web but there are all old style, and wondered where I could get hold of one that was made of similar stuff to the stand up airers.
Thanks in advance.

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Curry_Queen

JackieO wrote:

I have just had a thought ,does anyone remember back in the 1960s there used to be a dryer called a Flatley.It was a white box about the size of a fridge and the top opened up and there were a row of wooden bars that you could hang your clothes on.I can remember drying my kids nappies in them.I don't know if it's possible to but one anymore though

Yes! I remember my parents having one of those back in the 70's and it sat in the corner of the kitchen.

Having read some of the posts here, I must be one of the few that actually prefers to dry clothes on or near a radiator in the winter! I find CH dries the air too much and my skin feels taught and I can't breathe, usually resulting in me opening all the windows and letting the heat out! :doh:

When I have clothes drying it raises the humidity sufficiently for me to feel comfortable again, and when I haven't got washing drying then I have bowls of water sat on each radiator

Ventilation is the key to preventing condensation build-up, and I always have a couple of windows open sufficiently to create a thermal draft and ventilate the place righ tthrough so never have any problems


(Maybe I was a lizard in a former life :rotfl: )

moggins

JackieO wrote:

I have just had a thought ,does anyone remember back in the 1960s there used to be a dryer called a Flatley.It was a white box about the size of a fridge and the top opened up and there were a row of wooden bars that you could hang your clothes on.I can remember drying my kids nappies in them.I don't know if it's possible to but one anymore though

My mum had one of those too, we used to have a huge cupboard in the kitchen and it was stored in there. It only ever came out in the winter when she needed to dry something quickly. I was only thinking about that thing the other day, what a coincedence.

I fully admit to drying my washing on the radiators too, I have a clothes horse perched in front of the dining room one and radiator airers hung over the huge one in the hallway. The hall one is so close to the drafty front door that it may as well be of some use as it doesn't actually heat anything that is less that 4 inches away from it. But with the combined breeze from the gap in the door and the heat from the radiator the clothes dries really well on it

Savvy_Sue

ff999 wrote:

Would anyone out there know where I could buy a pulley operated clothes airer? I've found some on the web but there are all old style, and wondered where I could get hold of one that was made of similar stuff to the stand up airers.
Thanks in advance.

I wonder if that's possible? The old fashioned pulley airers have longer bars than these new-fangled free-standing ones, so the new ones might not take the weight. The pulley ones are VERY heavy when full of clothes!