How do you dry clothes if you don’t have a tumble drier?

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We currently have a washing machine in the kitchen and dryer in the integral garage. We’re converting our garage next year and DH is talking about putting the drier in the shed but I know that I won’t be faffed to trek to the bottom of the garden in the middle of winter to use it. Combo washer/driers are supposed to be useless aren’t they? What’s the alternative? We don’t have the heating on all the time and I don’t like the idea of clothes hanging around damp everywhere. We do have a spare box room that I could use to dry the clothes in during the winter but any ideas?

U could out that pull out line drier over the bath and dry overnight, I do that just on the lines permanently fixed over bath.

I have a tall clothes airer. I can put two loads of washing on it, put the dehumidifier underneath it and it will dry everything overnight.

I have a walk-in drying room 2 meters x 2 meters. Slatted shelves ceiling high rack with loads of coathangers . It's insulated - even though all it's walls are interior. There's a radiator of the central heating system in there and a dehumidifer that runs 24/7. It gets warm in there.

I live in a studio flat so I have clothes airer things over the radiators. A heated airer is a great idea.

I use the JML Dri Buddi and it dries them in about 4 hours and you don't get any damp or musty smells that I always seem to get with radiator drying or a clothes horse despite opening windows and blasting central heating. It's quite compact... it's like a hat stand and you put the clothes on hangers and cover it all with a cover and it dries them fairly quickly, plus cuts down on the amount of ironing I've to do. I can get a full load on it at a time. We keep it in the living room and guests keep thinking it's a hooded dryer from the hair dressers

We have the Miele Twindos washer-dryer and it was an I sane amount of money but it's fantastic and I wouldn't be without it. We have very cold winters here and a small flat but we dry our washing on a tall free-standing airer that we put on the balcony when the weather is nice and in the bedroom when it isn't. However, I'd love one of the ones that attaches to the ceiling but we just don't have habe the space pulleymaid.com/
I'm also thinking of getting a heated one as our bedroom doesn't have a radiator and now that we've moved the cot out of our bedroom we could dry the washing in there with the least impact on life in our flat.

Can’t you just stack the dryer on top?.

We have an airer in a cupboard that houses the hot water tank. Clothes generally dry overnight. Gym stuff more quickly.

Have you got an extractor fan in the bathroom or utility?

If you turn the fan on, hang stuff over the bath, and shut the door, the fan will suck the water vapour out of the house.

Draping wet washing indoors or over radiators is a dreadful source of damp, mould and smelly clothes.

I have 2 clothes airers,one is an electric heated one. It's great for getting things like sheets and towels dry,but you do have to move the stuff around on it a couple of times over the course of them drying. And it shouldn't be left on if you go out.

I have an old fashioned pulley airer over my stairs. Gets pretty much anything dry in 24h

We have the biggest lakeland heated airer with a cover. I put a load on in the morning and it's dry at night and a load on at night that's dry by morning. It's in our bedroom and I crack a window open. Best purchase I ever made (after our tumble dryer caught fire and I swore I'd never get another)

On the radiators or outside.

I have a small room off the kitchen with my hot water tank in and the washing machine.

I bought 3 of these and fitted them to the wall (high up but still reachable) and have a dehumidifier running in there. Most stuff dries overnight if hung in the evening.

I mainly use an overbath airer, but straightened out across the stairs to catch the warmth rising from downstairs, plus banister for big things like jeans/bedding/towels, & all finished off for 5-10 mins in dryer to minimise creasing & soften a bit.

(My dryer’s in the bathroom, so I can whip stuff out in batches & fold on the bed )

There is also a radiator in the room which helps too.

A combi does get towels and sheets bone dry if you put it on the cotton setting.

For everything else its disappointing as you have to either run it forever or hang stuff up after.

(Can’t dry outside in the winter here - tiny back yard, with high walls, in damp Lancs )

On hangers in the airing cupboard, on the clothes horse and I have a washing line under cover too.

We line dry all year round then finish off on an airer indoors. We do have a dryer, but prefer not to use it (environmental reasons mainly, but also as it's not good for stuff to be tumbled really).

We're on the NW coast so have the benefit of the coastal breeze!

I've got a washer/dryer and it's fine if you're short on space. I don't use it to dry everything though after it shrunk my jeans! Mainly towels, bedding, PJs and underwear etc.

Everything else gets hung up inside on an airer in the box room. In the summer, I tend to hang everythng up outside.

Clothes horse in the back bedroom. Never thought of a dehumidifier! Love it in winter as everything dried quickly when the heating is on. Everything out on the line on sunny days.