When do you give up line drying for the year?

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How do you decide when to give up line drying for the year? I managed to dry about 90% of this weeks laundry but had to put the rest in the dryer to finish off. I had been hoping for a bit of sun but it never really came out. Looks even worse over the next few weeks so should probably give up but we have a small house and no space to dry stuff indoors without tripping over it. I would put everything in the dryer over winter but have quite a bit of stuff that says not to and obviously woollens etc.

never really
but when the heating is on in the house it is easier

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it is poor today but i have a load and will put it out until it rains

Agree
I have joint issues and Im not pegging it out then bringing it in and hanging again.
If its a bit damp at the end of the day it goes in the heat pump TD.
Done and put away in one day.

Anyone who doesnt have one of the heat pump TD , they are streets ahead of the old style.
They are cheap to run as they use heated air to dry and it just reuses that.
Very very gentle on clothes and none of the scorched smell.
I barely iron either, just whip it out and fold.

I usually would have stopped by now. I’m in NI and it’s pretty much always damp outside in the autumn and winter. Sometimes I take a rush of blood to the head and hang it out on a drier day in winter. But it seems to come in wetter than it went out if that’s possible! It’s a common complaint around here. I hung it out yesterday though and it did ok, but the weather is unusually dry at the minute. I hate having to hang it twice.

I’ve been putting mine out and bringing it in only 20% dry so I think that’s it now. Radiators going on anytime anyway, stuff dries in an hour on those. Never use the tumble dryer.

I put washing out all year if its dry and a "bit of a drooth" as my mam used to say. Can't beat the smell of line dried laundry esp if weather is a bit fresh, windy and sunny.

My heat pump drier takes hours to dry clothes. Literally hours. Even when they’re a bit damp. It also stops before the clothes are properly dry. When I first got it I used it for very load and my electricity bill went up by £200 in a month. So I barely use it now.

I try to hang it out whenever I can, so never really ‘give up’. From around November-ish though, I often have to give it 20 minutes in the dryer to finish off, as even being out all day it still feels cold/damp.

I’m just astounded that most of you have the time to do laundry (and enough of it I suppose- there’s 4 of us) everyday or several days a week. My laundry is done on a Saturday, so I doesn’t matter what time of year it is if it’s due to rain on a Saturday my laundry isn’t going outside.

For the days when its damp outside I put laundry on a clothes horse and turn the pedestal fan on it. If I rotate the airer a couple of times and flip clothes over it dries well and doesnt cost much

I don’t. If the weather is bad enough that I can’t get it out, fine. But if there’s any dry days, I will get it out, and finish on clothes horse/in drier if I need to. But you can usually get things fully or almost dry even in winter - even in snowy weather if there’s a breeze!

Wrong. I've got stuff fully dry in winter when it's windy enough!

40mph wind dries no matter the temp!

No. Me spending 10 minutes hanging and collecting, the putting in for 30m to finish off saves 10+ hrs of high electricity usage each week. We have 4-5 loads a week. They take 2.5-3hrs to dry in tumble dryer.

How do you fit a weeks worth of stuff into one load a week? Or are you doing multiple loads on one day?

2 loads a every Saturday. A dark and a white/lights, I have a 10-11kg machine.

Including all towels, tea towels and bedding for 4 people?
And all the odds like coats and dressing gowns.
I'm impressed.

Yes, darks is usually clothing from the week and DS’s bedding, towels . Lights is usually clothing, tea towels, towels bedding from the other beds when needed.
I have light grey towels so they can be put in either wash.

Well there is your answer. If someone has a 7kg machine then they'll do more loads than you. Or indeed if they simply have more laundry than you.

Most people seem to have enough for every day though, surely it would mean only one or two more loads. But yes I can see that, I do try to keep laundry to a minimum though.

I tumble dry most things all year round, even when it's 40 plus degrees. I'm just too lazy to hang it up/bring it in. Delicates etc get put on the clothes horse. That fresh from the line smell is nice though, maybe I'll make an effort over summer.

Same here

I would love to still hang out but unfortunately I have 3 idiot neighbours who have wood burners . So unless I want smoky clothes, I have no choice but to dry inside overnight and finish in dryer.

I assume people who hang their washing outside during the colder months are either SAHM or work from home. I leave the house at 07.30 and get in at 18.30. I can’t rely on the weather being dry all day and, as the evenings draw in, any washing that has dried is damp again in the dark evenings.

I’ve invested in a heated clothes airer with a cover. Cheap to run and dries everything including bedding and towels.

40 plus degrees? You must live abroad. Why on earth would you waste money and wreck your clothes, quite apart from the environmental issues.

Man, people take drying laundry personally.

I wonder if men have these types of conversations.