When do you stop drying laundry outside?

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I've still put mine out on dry days. Even though it can take near all day to dry but saves using tumble or having it over radiators. My ndn said she stops by mid Sept as not nice enough out.
Today has only been 11 degrees and cloudy but I've dried towels and our bedding. Dh uniform and 1 other load.
I've just seen weather is nice midweek 13. So plan to do kids beds then rather than tomorrow and tumbling? I'm now thinking my neighbours think I'm odd 😂

I have a huge drying cupboard built in next to the boiler. It’s basically a giant airer, with wooden dowels to hang the clothes over. The cupboard doors keep the heat in and mean the room (which is also dh’s office) is tidy - you can’t see the washing. Vents at the top of the cupboard allow air flow. It’s big enough to dry three loads of washing overnight.

I still hang out when I can though.

I didn't put any out for years until I found myself without a dryer

Driers are very bad for the environment .

Mouldy clothes and houses are very bad for your health.

Mine goes on an airer and goes out every day. We have an awning out the back so if it's raining it goes under there. I've been known to brush the snow off the patio so the airer can go out! If it gets a bit of air through it it reduces the time you have to tumble dry it.
Mind you, I'm home today, airer was on the garden today, but it started raining and I didn't notice- bugger. It's back under the awning now.

@PickAChew, but uv light and fresh air kills germs

I don’t have a tumble drier so either I get it outside or I’m tripping over airers indoors - I try to put the laundry on as soon as I wake up on days that are forecast to not rain or be really humid and then leave it out until just before dark and it’s usually fine. If anything in winter is still wet then I transfer onto an airer overnight and it’s usually dry by morning so it still minimises the amount of time I have to have the airers out.

It’s raining today and I’ve had to angle my laptop so that no one can see my knickers drying in the background when I’m on work video calls!

Zaphodsotherhead

Same here- I don't have a tumble drier- I have had one in the past but choose not to now.

Washing doesn't need heat specifically to dry- it can dry in a cold air flow as long as the air is dry.
So on icy days with no clouds and a breeze clothes will dry easily outside.

I stopped last week or so ago. When it's regularly raining.

Yes, the Amish households in northern Maine dry their washing outside on dry, bright, windy winter days.

If they don't get enough days like that they go to the laundromat.

[quote MikeUniformMike]@PickAChew, but uv light and fresh air kills germs[/quote]
Very little uv light on a cloudy winter day in the North. I have an incontinent but toilet training teen who generates a lot of laundry every single day. I do 2 loads of just his stuff most days before I touch anyone else's, usually including his duvet. I want it dry ASAP. I absolutely will hang bedding out to dry if we have suitable weather but we simply haven't, at all, this month, and we're not likely to. Some stuff goes on an airer, in the house, but days like today, when it's been pissing down all day, it needs to have been mostly dried in the dryer, first.

And fresh air doesn't kill anything. It just disperses it.

I live in Cumbria. Even in the summer ot doesn't get dried outside that often! At this time of year, even on a dry day, it woukd still be damp if it had been hung out all day!

I use the path as a guide, if that's dry then the washing goes outside to dry

I very rarely dry outside now unless it's the height of summer.

I live in Cumbria and it rains far too much. DH and I are both out at work and don't have children who can bring the laundry in if it rains. It's easier to just put it in the machine (we have a washer/dryer) - I can stick a load on in the morning and it's done when I get home.

I live in the west of Scotland, and used to live in Cumbria. It's wetter here by far, but if it's breezy, the washing goes out. At this time of year I usually have to finish it off indoors, but most of the damp is out of it.

So my washing is out today and I intend on doing it tomorrow too!

I'm in S Wales, it's breezy, sunny and on the chilly side (highs of 14 degrees Celsius according to the weather app).

One massive load washed today! Garden is getting a bit muddy though

When it rains. Why wouldn't I if it's dry enough? And it smells nicer too, even if I have to finish it off indoors.

Your neighbour sounds weird.

I stop end of September

I don't stop, if the path dries, the washing will.

No drier here but I do have a heated airer for the depths of winter and cloth nappies. They'd never dry otherwise and I don't want to buy quicker drying ones as they'll not be used for much longer.

@Hercwasonaroll

I don't stop, if the path dries, the washing will.

No drier here but I do have a heated airer for the depths of winter and cloth nappies. They'd never dry otherwise and I don't want to buy quicker drying ones as they'll not be used for much longer.

This is my thinking too! If the flags in the back garden are drying, washing can go out. Had a load out today!

We still hang it out... we hang it out for as long as possible and then if it’s not done (depends on wind and such) we usually shove it in the dryer .. usually takes about 10/20 minutes

I never dry outside I hang stuff from hangers in door frames and the bannister to dry overnight but then Iive on my own.

How do people stop their houses getting too humid and damp drying indoors in winter?