Entire room taken up with clothes drying racks

If you are shrinking your clothes in the tumble dryer you are using it incorrectly.

No where I live. In the winter clothes don’t dry even if there is no rain. Magnolia trees grow very well here because there is hardly any wind.

I am the same, OP, drying stuff everywhere. I do like the heated racks though.

Heated Lakeland airer with a cover (looks better and dries quicker). I do one load per day and it all fits on one airer. Not sure why you’d need three airers if you’re doing a load every other day, is it not drying quickly enough?

Could you build a small gazebo-like structure in the garden, open on three or four sides, and put a few clothes lines into it?

Could you get rid of the sofa, table, chairs if they're not being used much? Then would you have space for washing and gym equipment? Also a dehumdifier if you don't already use one to speed up drying times.

90 percent of clothing here goes into the dryer. have invested in a heat pump one last year and although take a bit longer to run is far more cost effective. anything else goes on line or clothes horse in back bedroom as that gets good sun all day. though I detest my clothes horse and its put away as soon as done. wouldn't be without my tumble dryer

I buy DS8’s clothes a size too big to allow for the dryer shrinkage- they tend only to shrink with the first dry, don’t get steadily smaller!

You definitely need to try and dry the clothes outside more often a quick check of the weather forecast will tell you whether there is rain or not. in the winter I tend to do small lots of washing and put things on the radiators when the heating is on obviously I don’t overload them but if it gets some things dry and out of the way then that’s a bonus. The sports gear I do want a quick wash and put outside or on the radiators as they dry super quick due to the material they’re made of.

Also if we are going through a heatwave. I iron clothes I am wearing that day while still wet. It soon dries in the heat cools you down as well.

We use radiator racks in winter. Rotate things round every hour or so when heating's on. Autumn/spring is trickiest, so the conservatory becomes the laundry room. We do have a tumble drier, but it's old and inefficient so try not to use it much.

You need one of these

www.clothesmaid.com/product/sixer-airer/

If it's naturally a cold room in the winter then it'll hinder the drying time. I had a back room that literally took three days for t-shirts to dry in because it was never warm in there. Any way of switching the washing to every day? I find you need less airers because some stuff likes sports stuff dries really quickly overnight. You just remove the next day and replace with some other wet stuff. More work in reality but gives you a little more space.

Can you you create a covered area outside to allow for year round outdoor drying? A simple wooden loggia type affair.

I can't dry outside because of allergies. We do have a dryer I use for bedding towels PJ's and underwear. But the rest of it's hot I hang on an airer in the porch. It gets really hot in there. I also have an over the door airer in my bedroom. When I have the CH on I hang on radiators.

When I was a child we had 2 of these in the kitchen. Ideal for constant loads of washing but never in the way. Even better in a room you are not using for cooking.
My DD lives in a tiny apartment. She has a dehumidifier that she puts on to get the washing dry. It doesn't cost that much to run, dries the washing quickly and keeps the room dry.

Wow, Angharad78, that sounds impressive. I'd love to do something like that myself. Can I ask which drying racks you used to make it?

I’ve got one of this on the first floor landing, so it gets benefit of the high ceilings and air rising, but doesn’t take up a room. I hang shirts and T-shirts from it on hangers, so you can fit quite a lot on it.
I also have mini racks over radiators for overflow.
If the weather is OK I use the line outside.
This combination has worked fine for 5 of us for years- I very rarely use the tumble dryer.

I hang things on coat hangers fron the curtain pole and they dry really quickly and tumble dry all underwear and towels. I live in a flat so no garden.

We’ve got a bit of a DIY version of that. We have two drying racks and a full curtain rail in a large double cupboard. We put a small oil heater and a good dehumidifier in there. Not 45 mins but it dries a load in a few hours and keeps it out of the way. I love it!

1/20th ok, not 1/2

we do 3 washes daily, and is only 3 of us also. Goes out or on top of one big massive rack and dehimidifier underneath it, 12 h plugged in. The rack takes 1/2oth of my living room

Dry buddy - not sure it's great electricity usage wise but thing that can't go in condenser dryer than need finishing off or needed quickly works well with.

I just checked the prices. Mindblowingly expensive!

I’ve never owned a heated airer that dried any part of the clothing other than the bit touching the airer! Which ones are you all using?
I also don’t tumble dry most clothing, I find things bobble and fade much more quickly if they are tumbled regularly. Can’t fit ceiling racks due to my oddly shaped house and so far the dehumidifier has been underwhelming.
The racks are the bain of my existence!