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How many loads of washing can you hang out at once?

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Oatsamazing · 27/08/2022 22:42

I can just about squeeze 2 loads on our short line and the two folding dryers we have. Just wondering as I sometimes read that people spend the day doing washing but it doesn't really take that long so perhaps they are doing more loads? Or including ironing too maybe.
I'm moving soon and excited to have a rotary dryer for the first time. I know I need to get out more Grin

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PeloAddict · 27/08/2022 23:50

None as it's banned Hmm
I sometimes put a load on an airer and lift it into the neighbours garden, which is allowed fucking ridiculous

buddhasbelly · 29/08/2022 19:30

Kite22 · 27/08/2022 23:36

I call ours the socktopus

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I am stealing this name!

PeonyRose80 · 29/08/2022 19:33

4-5 but i have 2 rotary lines outside- I guess could also do another on airer inside but never think too in summer… winter; whole different ball game, 1 maybe 2 at a push

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Cynderella · 29/08/2022 19:37

Two, but I can get four loads out on a good drying day. One of my lines can be raised really high on a pulley and stuff dries really fast, so by the time, the third load is ready, the first load can come in.

This winter, I'm going back to my airer indoors, so when it rains, it'll be one load a day max.

Jules912 · 29/08/2022 19:39

2 or 3 depending what it is on my rotary drier. Technically I'd still have line space for a 4th as like to leave space between stuff, but I don't have enough pegs.

TheChosenTwo · 29/08/2022 19:41

Just one, I’m new to drying outside but only have an airer. I hate washing lines and rotary things, spiders tend to hide in the pegs and in my garden I’d have to look at it! I’ve got a bit at the side of the house where I can stick the airer and not have to see it. Only dries one load at a time, it’s not been an issue recently because the weather has been lovely enough to dry at least 2 loads a day, often 3 or 4. But I might either get one more of the same or just get a bigger one so I can dry more at once.

SomethingFast · 29/08/2022 19:42

Probably four? Large rotary dryer takes two and then I have three folding racks that go out on the patio when needed.

LionessesRules · 29/08/2022 19:47

2 outside. But on Saturday I think I did 5 loads - all three beds in 2 loads, a set of towels, a dark load and DS returning from scout camp. Each load was dry on the line before the next load was ready to peg out.
1 inside currently, but I have a heated airer arriving tomorrow, as this house doesn't have a banister I can hang sheets on, which is restricting me.
I think people who talk about regularly spending the whole day doing laundry dry have a drier. I can only hammer through the loads when it's sunny but breezy.

Hugasauras · 29/08/2022 19:49

Could prob get three on our whirlie if I was sensible about it! Two easily.

Hugasauras · 29/08/2022 19:50

And on a breezy warm day stuff dries before the next load is finished usually, so if I went all guns blazing I could get through multiple washes.

Muchtoomuchtodo · 29/08/2022 19:51

3 on my rotary line.

I have 2 of the soctopus 🤪 things that I use for socks and pants which frees a lot of space and pegs.

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Muchtoomuchtodo · 29/08/2022 19:51

Drying not dating!

Hopeandlove · 29/08/2022 19:53

I have four loads able to go up on the straight lines. I have an so dryer stand alone and can get three loads of that - it extends out. But I have never needed more than 4 ever

Mol1628 · 29/08/2022 19:56

I call ours the socktopuss too. I can get three loads on the two lines we have outside.

Our garden gets full sun most of the day so if I really commit to it I can get about 4/5 loads washed and dried in a day. First load goes in the night before on a timer to finish around 7am, then that lot goes out and the next goes in and on a good drying day it’s dry in an hour or two ready for when the next lot finishes. It does have to be a hot day where I’m not doing much else to get it all done though!

daffodilandtulip · 29/08/2022 19:58

PeloAddict · 27/08/2022 23:50

None as it's banned Hmm
I sometimes put a load on an airer and lift it into the neighbours garden, which is allowed fucking ridiculous

Banned?!

reluctantbrit · 29/08/2022 19:59

I just have a folding clothes horse and it depends on what I wash.

Bedding - only one machine (two sets of duvet cover and pillows).

Normal T-shirts and trousers - at least 2-3

DD coming back from a week camp - one machine only.

When it's sunny and warm I have the washing dry after 2-3 hours as I spin on the hightest setting of the programm. So i load the horse at least 2 times a day.

xyzandabc · 29/08/2022 20:00

buddhasbelly · 27/08/2022 23:18

This is where the thing that you can hang socks and pants on comes in handy, saves a lot of space! I don’t know what it’s actually called but as the pegs are attached to it I seem to lose less.

We call it the sock hangerupperer.

9kg washing machine, 4 arm rotary airer, easily fits 3 loads, but I don't tend to use the inner lines so could do more. In summer it's one load out, one load in and just keep going. So I can get 6/7 loads done in a day. In winter it takes more planning and probably only 3 loads maximum as I wouldn't have space indoors if it started to rain or wasn't quite dry by dusk.

MrsMoastyToasty · 29/08/2022 20:01

I can hang 3 loads out at once on lines from the bottom of the garden up to the house (v long garden).
If I start early enough I can get 7 or 8 loads done on a long summer day . Garden is west facing.

PeloAddict · 29/08/2022 20:04

@daffodilandtulip yes, it's ridiculous
I live in a block of 4 apartments, and I have a private garden (the only garden)
Because they wrote the lease for us AND the big block of flats, they banned visible washing/hanging it out. I get they don't want it festooned over balconies but...

So if you imagine a row of houses and then a tiny block of flats, all with back gardens in a line. All the houses gardens have washing in, but I can't Hmm

maddiemookins16mum · 29/08/2022 20:12

Three loads on our rotary. That said I put a fair few things on hangers and peg the metal bit of the hanger to the line.

ImBoilingJackie · 29/08/2022 20:18

Between 3 and 4 loads on the rotary depending on how much bedding I've washed.
I also have some space over the top bannister so can hang a sheet there or a couple of towels on a less dry day.

Blush21 · 29/08/2022 20:21

2 full loads, sunny days like today I can get 3/4 done if I peg out by 9am, dry by around 12 , the next loads go out then

LadyHelenaJustina · 29/08/2022 20:31

I have a maiden in the utility room, and dry the rest in the conservatory or outside on racks. I can get about 4x12kg loads out at once. I hang everything on hangers or on the little clippy sock dryers.

I don't have a rotary line or a straight washing line. I do have a tumble dryer, but am trying not to use it as long as the weather is good enough.

Mommabear20 · 29/08/2022 20:34

1 on my poxy little line :( sadly not enough of a garden to have a rotary or I would have one in a heartbeat! Waiting on a suction line to arrive though to put over the bath that I can hang the DC (ages 2,1 and baby due in December) vests from! Also have a over the bath airer that takes about 1/3 of a load and a big airer that takes a load, but can only use that when kids are in bed as they pull it off and no where else big enough to put it 😂

BertieBotts · 29/08/2022 20:36

About 5 if I used both the big and small tower airers.