Do you hang washing outside?

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Dh won’t as he gets awful hay fever, I do. And then people on here rave about upstairs laundry rooms? But how do you hang your washing out?

Washing line apart from pillow case which I dry inside due to hay-fever

I hang all laundry out, except for my husband’s clothes and, sadly, our bedding.

He has hay fever and likes to complain about it re: pollen on clothes. I hardly ever see him take antihistamines, despite being reminded to regularly.

I dry his stuff on a washing line that is rigged up across my utility room. We have the door shut to the rest of the house and the window open in there all of the time. It’s also our winter-drying-solution for all clothes.

P.S if anyone is wondering why I don’t just make him do his own laundry, it’s because of the Division of Labour Agreement.
He cleans the bathrooms and all the floors. We have 4 bathrooms and a lot of floors. I do NOT want to swap!

Hung outside on warm, dry days and on a pulley maid in the utility room/airer in the downstairs bathroom when it's wet, cold days.
We pop a dehumidifier in the same room and that speeds up the process.

Towels, underwear and bedding goes in the tumble dryer regardless of weather.

Yes, as much as I can all year round.

If I hang outside, everything then goes in dryer for 20 mins to reduce pollen. My dryer is a very efficient heat pump and I have solar panels, so usually costs nothing or just pennies to run.

If it's dry and the humidity is under 90%, out it goes.

Yes. Hang out on line or dry in the dryer. My utility is downstairs with a door out to the back where the line is so all very convenient.

No, quicker and easier to use a dryer and it comes out less crinkled.

How are you all getting pollen on your clothes outside? I've never noticed any on mine, and I certainly don't get hay-fever from my clothing or bedding.

I think upstairs laundry rooms go with tumble drying, and not line drying.
We don't have a tumble drier. So try and at least partially line dry all year round. Significantly less towels and sheets get washed if it has been raining solid all week, as we just can't get it all dry on airers without some outside time

Clothes don’t ‘crinkle’ on a washing line if you hang them properly.

I hang out unless the weather is inclement. In deep winter and wet weather I hang it in my drying cupboard, which is attached to the boiler. It dries overnight in there.

yes on washing line, can’t use an airer outside because of neighbours two stupid cats that jump on it / knock it over / drag the washing off

Rarely. Don’t like the smell

Hayfever suffers - was listening to sounds on BBC and there was an expert saying they think it's also linked to a lack of microbiome diversity in your nose and initial trials are showing taking oral probiotics are showing positive results. Also you shouldn't use decongestant based nasal sprays.

Episode was Sliced Bread - Hay fever treatments

I have an airer which I take in in the evening and if not 100% dry, it is normally the next morning.

I do it as early as possible in the year and last year I managed to go into November.

DD has hayfever from grass so I don't do it the day DH cuts it and I also put her bedding into the tumble dryer.

Clothes don’t ‘crinkle’ on a washing line if you hang them properly.

Not got the time for that, dryer = quicker, smoother clothes for me.

out on the washing line as much as possible. It’s FREE!!!

Love that term - Division of Labour Agreement!

I do all the laundry too, because I would rather do anything but cooking and food shopping. We must get this agreement formalised as above!

Yes I do. It smells so fresh! DH gets terrible hay-fever and in the past told me not to hang his clothes out. However, in recent years he's relented and I hang it all out.

Outside

I try and hang mine out whenever it's sunny, especially whites. I read a tip on here recently that the sun get stains out. Voila, it worked, I was amazed! The amount of clothes my wee one ruins by covering with food, I'd have had to have chucked a lot of them if it wasn't for this tip!

Yes. All year round. DS gets hay-fever but it doesn't seem to flare it up.

I always hang it out in good weather. Otherwise on airer/rails in the laundry room.

Just spent some time at my brothers place in a very wet region of Ireland. He has a washing line on wheels which can be rolled undercover when it starts raining and pulled back out when it stops. Great idea.

I hang on the line for as much of the year I can, then 2 airers on the patio which is undercover. Take them in airer and all at night to dry off / air with the heating from the house.

I have horrendous hayfever from grass pollens. I just don't hang out clothes when the grass is being cut. I refuse to by a tumble dryer for environmental reasons

I'm aware there are many devotees of hanging washing outside. However, I've always been perplexed by this given the highly changeable and generally wet weather in the UK, as well as the fact that it's a faff and an eyesore in the garden.

Tumble dryer every day.