Drying washing when raining without heating on

[Sadless]

Hi all how do you dry your washing when it raining and have no heating on. I have had a airer up for 2 days now and some bits are dry but have a few piles that need washing but no where to put the clothes.

Any advice

Sal

Dehumidifier in the room with the clothes airer (keep the door closed so you don't end up trying to dehumidify the whole house)

I invested in a heated airer from Lakeland. They are fabulous.

Heated airer with a cover. They're about £150 so it is a bit of an investment upfront but it's worth it.

Cost about 3/4p an hour to run (so probably 8p an hour nowadays). And you can just have it on for a couple of hours. Even if things arent totally dry by then, they'll dry quickly on their own without the heat after that.

Bit late for this load, but do an extra spin cycle after the load has finished.
Have a lightly loaded airer, and get a small amount totally dry, then shuffle stuff from the "rest of load" airer over in sections to get dry.
Open the windows every time it stops raining.
Hang stuff on the line, even if only for half an hour if its breezy.
Wash less... so if its forcast to rain for the next week, we don't do sheets and bath towels unless necessary, even if that means 2 weeks of use.

We use a dehumidifier

We’ve also got a heated airer. And I tumble dry towels and sheets.

We have a pulley ( heat rises so it's warmer near the ceiling!)

When I costed it I decided against a heated dryer as the amount of hours it was needed on (and the annoying way it didn't dry all the clothes) meant that a double spin and a quick blast in the tumble dryer was most efficient.

I'm now trying to use the tumble dryer less now if I can't line dry but I find that even without the heating on my stuff dries relatively quickly. I leave a window open so that the air flows

Heated dryer and another clothes horse.

Normally take about 36 hours to dry, so tend to do 1-2 loads every 2 days & it’s easily dry in that time.

I put dresses and tops on coathangers then hang on the curtain rails, towels over doors / at the top of the stairs. I put socks and pants on the radiators even if they're not on to give more room on the airer. Stuff dries much quicker if its hung over 2 rails instead of one (making an upside down u shape)

I have a laundry maid too, I agree with @thecurtainsofdestiny the nearer the ceiling the better
I'm actually looking into all the 'old' ways of doing things, there must be some merit in it all

I don’t do laundry on rainy days if I can avoid it. If not just the minimum and use a clothed horse, but I don’t have an electric one.

Vivo© Portable Fast Drying... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07N69DT9R?ref=ppxpoppmobappshare

👇🏻 this! Couldn't be without it

Tumble dryer on the eco setting, we have a large family and I wouldn’t be without it. I also hate being surrounded by washing

I do a load a day so I don't get a build up of things needing washed.

Generally I can hang it up and its dry within 24 hours without the heating being on.

I agree with PP about spinning more. If you can control the spin speed, make sure it is done at 1400. I always do a second spin, a habit I picked up when one of my old washing machines had a spin speed of 1000.

I just put it in the tumble dryer.
Do a load every day so it doesn't build up

I use dehumidifier and an electric fan. The cold air from the fan dries clothes really quickly (I have a tower fan)

I have a 2 airers up at the moment one is front room near window and 1 in a downstairs bathroom. I have a dryer in the shed but don't use it unless an emergency. My problem is I have a disabled child what most nights wets his bed then pulls his duvet under him so he's not on the wet patch. I have 2 mattress protectors so it's giving me time to dry the sheet and mattress protector but the duvet is a nightmare. I have a dehumidifier but worried about the cost to run but it's definitely going to be cheaper then the dryer. I also have, had a heated airer kids broke one of the legs. It wasn't an expensive one about £50 from argos.
Thanks for the advice I will be glad when it gets warmer.

Sal

The heater airer can dry quite quickly once you get the hang of how to put things on (not the way you put on an airer usually). You have to drape vertically across bars, then put cover on, then put the heavier items across the top of cover (towels/jeans) and then the items insure dry more quickly and the thicker items on top too! Put on before bed and all dry in the morning. I read a penny an hour for electricity when I got it. I hope that was true as even if doubled it is still okay. Don’t have a smart meter though so can’t tell for certain!

Dehumidifier
Much cheaper to run than a tumble dryer and stops any mould on the walls from drying washing indoors to

My problem is I have a disabled child what most nights wets his bed then pulls his duvet under him so he's not on the wet patch.

Could you get a waterproof duvet protector for him? Or a couple of the quick drying coverless duvets that are meant to be washed weekly?

Running the dehumidifier for even a few hours will make a big difference and it's cheaper than the tumble drier.

Are you hanging it on the airers efficiently? My DP always hangs stuff so it’s touching and doesn’t unravel it all properly but it needs space in between the rows to dry. Likewise making sure collars are folded out, things with pockets are drying inside out, sleeves aren’t turned half inside themselves etc.

Just came to suggest a coverless duvet, with an extra spin they are almost dry when they come out of the washing machine