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When do you stop drying laundry outside?

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Family1st2020 · 11/10/2020 20:24

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 😂

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Eng123 · 18/10/2020 20:44

Everything goes in the tumble. Out at work all day and it doesn't lend itself to laundry rituals.

Tumbleweed101 · 18/10/2020 20:44

It goes out when I'm home and the weather is suitable, so odd weekends this time of year. If I'm working then generally, this time of year, it will start getting damp again before I get home so I will wash in the evening and hang up in house to dry. I'll tumble dry anything I can and anything bulky like towels so they don't make the house damp.

reluctantbrit · 18/10/2020 21:02

Depends on the weather. I have only a clothes airer so I bring the whole thing in in the late afternoon to finish it off overnight if not dry. Wfh helped a lot as I can check on it better.

I hate the dryer for most stuff. Only bedding, towels and underwear goes in it unless it is a total emergency. I find that most clothes fabrics suffer when dried too much.

QueenOllie · 18/10/2020 21:15

@Zaphodsotherhead I live in a ground floor apartment with my own garden and not allowed a washing line. The house next door is Hmm
So heated airer as I can't dry outside

janj2301 · 19/10/2020 16:56

I stopped drying outside 10 years ago. Only the two of us so stick clothes on an airer in the spare room. Sheets/duvet covers get draped over doors, shirts straight onto hangers on the curtain rail

VenusClapTrap · 19/10/2020 17:03

Fab drying day today. Sunny and windy, got two loads completely dry including bedding and dressing gowns. Lovely.

(Nobody in real life appreciates how satisfying this is, but I suspect there will be people on this thread who will!)

HoldMyLobster · 19/10/2020 17:05

@Runningdownthathill

Washing outside in the winter, dry paths or not, never dries in my experience. I don’t know how everyone else is managing it.
It doesn't in my experience either, but then where I live we get about 9' of snow each winter, the average winter temperature is below freezing, and washing just freezes on the line.

We do snowblow paths through the garden all winter for the pets to run around, but I couldn't tell you if they're wet or dry, given that they're usually caked in about 1" of ice.

I'm sure someone will be along in a minute to tell me that they STILL dry everything outside on the line even though they live in Alaska, and that frozen clothes just smell so good, and that snapping icicles off the bottom of your socks while wearing ski gloves just makes bringing in your frozen laundry more fun Grin

Deadringer · 19/10/2020 17:08

All year round once it's dry. I had towels out today but it rained so they ended up in the dryer, which i only use when absolutely necessary.

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