Raining all weekend - how will you dry your washing?

[Infinitethings]

I’ve got loads of washing, school uniform, sheets etc so can’t leave it and it’s raining all weekend. So it will be draped on an airer, stuck on radiators and I will have to put some in the tumble drier although I try not to use it too much. I’ve got a very small house and it’s a pain!

That sounds great @megletthesecond
I will hang on hangers on door frames.
I have an ikea sock thing that will take DD cropped vests etc which helps.
My DD are not at school though so nothing desperate to wash. Just my uniform

I have an airer in the kitchen and one in the dinning room in front of the radiators. I also have a open stairwell so sheets, towels and thicker things like jeans/jogging bottoms are dried over the bannister. I only use the dryer to finish things to keep it to a minimum.

I try to the washing more often so I have smaller loads and it's easier to dry.

Lakeland Heated Airer saves my life in the winter and rain. Bloody love it.

Tumble dryer after 2 extra spins. Massively reduces time needed to dry it all. I will sometimes hang quilt covers over an airer for a few hours if it’s pouring down outside, then into the dryer to finish off, due to size and them not drying evenly in the dryer.

I’ve had a dryer since having first DC, always fitted one in somehow, current one is on kitchen counter! I can’t understand how people cope without them in this country. Surely washing doesn’t smell all that fresh if it’s hanging about inside, especially stuff like towels?

I will try some on my covered deck if it's not too wet. But if the wind gets up to high thing everything blows over so that's not always great. And then I dry it off completely in the house afterwards.

Mostly I dry on a Lakeland heated after. If I put more than one load on there I might run the dehumidifier as well and get stuff sorted sorted overnight.

Just use the tumble drier as you have one. All done, warm and dry and back in the cupbaords

We use a spin dryer to get rid of some of the excess water from the laundry before putting it on the airer, the over-radiator airers and on the actual radiators. We also hang things like hoodies, jackets and thick tops on coat hangers on the curtain poles if we run out of room. We only do 1 load of washing a day, at the most, because we don't have a dryer and only have limited space to put things.

Tumble drier here too, I thought I could manage without one and did do for about 4 weeks. Never again, laundry everywhere, nothing smelt fresh in the wettest autumn we had in years!

It's one appliance I would not be without, particularly in this country in winter time. I do not get the hate for them, I don't notice a difference in cost from my summer to winter electricity and surely if you are having to run a dehumidifier to get your laundry dry you might as well use a tumble dryer, although if you haven't got the space for one that is difficult, but I would always try to squeeze one in somewhere even if I had to lose a kitchen cupboard!

Never had a tumble. Radiators and an airer only here. Small flat so warm anyway and things dry fairly quickly.

I have a washer dryer with a teeny tiny drum, so just the underwear is in there. Everything else is on the airer or draped over our stairgates!

If we get a dry hour I'll shove the airer out into the garden.

I had a screen built to fit around an airer as we have no where to put it but a corner of the lounge. It's 4 wooden frames with fabric panels (to match the lounge blind) hinged together so it can bend around the airer. I already had an airer so haven't replaced with heated and have put a small oil filled radiator next to it so there's some heat to speed things along.

I've got two fritters and a big airier in my spare room. I'm even thinking of fitting a washing line or drying rack in there so I can use the ambient heat from the dryers to do towels etc

Fritters- driers 🤷🏼‍♀️

Tumble drier.

I live in a wet part of the country and our house has problems with damp as it is. I wouldn't dry on radiators or heated ajrers unless I had absolutely no other choice.

If we’ve got loads and are struggling to keep up I sometimes use the local launderette for drying sheets, towels etc.

OP do you have a cupboard, airing cupboard, under stairs cupboard, small room you could designate as laundry drying space? the best thing I ever did about 3 houses ago was deciding to use the airing cupboard and putting a dehumidifier in it. Washing hung on the slats and on hangers and left overnight. current house doesnt have an airing cupboard but a tiny room with the washing machine in it so I fitted extending/retracting airers on the walls and put my dehumidifier in. its great. added bonus, there is a radiator in there too so the washing dries very fast.

or failing that hang a shelias pulley in the void above your stairs, close all the internal doors in the house and put a dehumidifier in the landing.

With weather like this I really miss my old pulley airer over the stairs. We had a really high ceiling and it was a great warm air trap. Sadly we don't have the same space here. I have my tumble drier for small bits and towels, and the Lakeland heated airer for jeans and bedding. If I run out of room, I'll use the rads for bits and pieces.

If you haven't got a dehumidifier, would placing the airer close to a slightly open window help?

No tumble or dehumidifier just 3 airers
However we have a mini outdoor laundrette down the road so did all my bedding then dried it yesterday to get it out the way rest I just hang up. Usually goes on the line in spring/summer once it’s not so damp.
Can be a pain it’s like widow twankys laundry in here at times though

Our house has clothes draped all over doors and radiators. That's the overflow from the airer

I have a heated airer from Lidl. Was only £40 a few weeks ago in the middle aisle!

I always use the tumble dryer for everything. I wouldn't be without it.

OP I used to be in the same boat. I had no room for an airer. Mil bought us a dry buddy but it was shit in my opinion. Couldn’t put much on it.

I used to do a wash everyday and put it on radiators with the window open a crack.

We moved in jan to a house with a tumble drier and I actually cried. It’s changed my life.

Clothes horses and dehumidifier, some clothes horses in the bathroom with extractor fan on. It’s going to rain here for the next 800 weeks I think so we’ll cave and use the tumble dryer soon.