To ask how you dry your clothes?

I line dry in the summer, but in the winter (pretty much equivalent to what you have year round!), I only tumble bedsheets, towels and cleaning cloths/flannels.

I dry all my clothes on clothes airers with a dehumidifier running. Wash them overnight and then hang in the bedroom on the airers with the dehumidifier during the day and they're ready to take off the airer by the time I need the bedroom again in the evening.

Tumble drying clothes shrinks them and reduces lifespan because the tumbling motion and rubbing together is essentially more "wear".

Do you have an airing cupboard in your flat?
Or spare room?

Rarely use tumble for clothes drying unless needing something in a desperate hurry.
Prefer to line dry if weather is on my side, or use indoor airer.

Usually dryers have a smaller capacity than many washing machines so if you overload your wash it won’t dry very well.

Just looked that model up HOW MUCH for a tumble dryer? 😲

Condenser dryers are not great. Have always preferred vented. They need emptying regularly (like twice a load IMO)

No way to send that back and get a regular vented dryer op? Or a heated airer and cover?

Tumble dry all year round.

We have a new dryer (I think it’s hotpoint) which is infinitely more complicated than its predecessor. Usually it’s on ‘timed dry’. It has many settings but I have no idea about any of them.

Over door airer and normal airer in the spare room and set our dehumidifier away on laundry mode (maeco arete).

I use a tumble dryer, and an airer for delicates and stretchies.

I have a Beko dryer (so not expensive) and I use the cotton/hot 'Extra dry' for bedding and shirts, and the low heat 'cupboard dry' for everything else. I've never had it take more than about 30 minutes to get everything dry? It has a sensor, and beeps when it's ready.

I do double spin unless I've done a cottons wash, when the spin gets things really dry anyway.

Can you put a drying rack in the empty bath with a window open?

Tumble drier if it's too cold/wet to dry on the line. I use low heat and that seems to avoid too much shrinkage.
Also have an airer for stuff that can't be tumble dried and a dehumidifier ( I have a utility room so space isn't a major issue).

Trousers with zips need to be zipped up and buttoned to avoid damage.

What other setting options do you have op and is it a condenser dryer you've bought or a vented one?

No help with your drying dilemma and I'm sure you know, not in anyway suggesting for a minute you're stupid...but always make sure the lint filter in the door, and if there is one the filter on the bottom of the dryer drum is always clear of lint...tumble dryers are one of the biggest causes of house fires.

Double spin and tumble dryer to 'extra dry' when it's not sunny and dry out. Electric bills are £35/month summer, £45/£50/month winter, family of three.

Holes are probably down to the quality of your clothes?

Have a washer and dryer combo.

Clothes are dry in under 2 hours usually. Only find it doesn’t when DH overfills it despite it saying on the machine how much can be put in to wash and to dry and it being a 3 kg difference. I also add wool balls to help break up the clothes, circulate the heat, and add a bit of fragrance.

I am quite lucky in that I have a very large airing cupboard with a shelf. (Hot water tank is located in there.)

I do have a tumble dryer, a dehumidifier and do dry outside too but when it is wet in the summer I hang all the large items on hangers and hang in the airing cupboard - where I can add the dehumidifier if necessary - and just tumble dry small and quick drying items on low heat in the tumble dryer. Bedding I hang over the landing railing overnight.👍🏼

I use a mixture of airers and tumble dryer.

it sounds like there may be something wrong with your tumble dryer though. Each load I put in goes in for either 45 mins or an hour. I’ve just put a load in and that’s a set of single bedding, a couple of hand towels and four bulky waterproof sheets and I’ve just put that on for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

In the winter I use a tumble dryer most of the time, except for delicates. I really don’t like washing hanging round the house. My tumble dryer is a Bosch and I have had it a very long time. T shirts, and polos don’t come out that well and I do get a bit of shrinkage, but I certainly don’t get holes. It is pointless me putting washing on the line in the winter. There is very little wind where we live and the clothes would just be as wet several hours later.
My tumble dryer only takes an hour at the most but I don’t have an eco setting.

Line dried if weather allows feel it smells better and is fresher. Winter is dryer time and I throw everything in, same mentality with the dishwasher.. only the strong survive 😂 I just put it on cottons and my dryer works out how heavy it is and sets drying time accordingly. I leave the window and door open for ventilation.

I live in a tiny flat, and don't have room for a dryer
I have an ordinary 3 tier airer and a dehumidifier plus a couple of radiator airers which I use with or without heating on.
I don't have a garden but a communal courtyard which I use for airer if dry
You can buy balcony airers, or over bath if you have one, and ones that fit over doors
It's a case of utilising what space you have really

Have a v small larder type room that the tumble dryer is in

Anything that can't be tumble dryed gets hung on hangers inside the cupboard with the tumble dryer on so it dries as everything else does.

I don't line dry,don't have the time it takes or the inclination to be honest as it's a soul destroying job and a constant flow.

Outside on line if dry / warm enough. Otherwise clothes on airer in spare room with dehumidifier on - dries pretty quick.