to ask what is more expensive: Heating on or tumble dryer to dry clothes?

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Hi, have nc for privacy and because I am ashamed to admit we are poor biscuit, yoni massage, fanjo, mn royalty etc I am trying to prove I have been here long enough and I am not a troll

Just wondering what is cheaper, I've got a baby and lots of clothes need to dry and we don't have the heating on and don't want to use the tumble dryer because we can't afford it.
But I need those clothes to dry and they have been there for 2 days and nothing. Temperature inside the flat is 15 degrees Celsius. No garden.

Could you put the heating on even just for a little to start them drying and warm you up a little , you must be so cold .

Tumble-dry and sit in the room it is in if it is one of those ones that doesn't send the hot air outside- I sit in the kitchen loads and don't heat the rest of the house. Could you use a one room heater to heat both you and the clothes though, the oil filled ones are excellent.

if you check the energy usage of your tumble dryer you can work out the cost to run it, you need the kW it uses and the unit rate you pay for electricity. I seem to remember tumble dryers typically use about 5kW and electricity is about 11p per kwh, so that would be 55p an hour to run. You'd need to check if those figures are right for you though. Working out the cost of heating would be trickier.

Where do you live? I've managed to dry clothes outside on the line every day this week. Just put em on rads to finish off for an hour when the heating is on anyway.

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tumble dry them for 30 mins then air dry them. That should be enough to cheaper than putting heating on. I've been where you are and its hard and cold. x

Ooops. I would say that heating your whole flat to dry some clothes would be more expensive. Plus, all that moisture has to go somewhere and with a tumble dryer it's either going outside or into a container and not onto yours walls etc, increasing the liklihood of mould/damp.

Stick it into the tumble dryer.

Personally I'd put heating on so I can enjoy the heat as well as getting clothes dried.

Just watch for mould growth if you are drying lots of stuff indoors! You will need to air the flat a few mins a day.

Alternatively, stick in tumble drier for a little while so clothes are warmed through, then hang up again while still warm. Hopefully even 10 mins will make a huge difference.

Also wondering if you could offset cost of heating /tumble drier by hand washing clothes in the bath instead of washing machine? Not sure of figures for heating water Etc though. You would be pretty warm afterwards at least!

nightsky Unfortunately,there is no 'outside' where I could dry our clothes, it would be the pavement, we live in a flat in London.

We haven't put the heating on this month, not even 1 hour because we can't afford it. I am really ashamed to admit this and I don't want pity

There is a heated clothes horse from Lakeland. Far cheaper and gentler than tumble drier to run.

Bluecarrot I only wash at 30 degrees in the washing machine. I used to wash pooey baby clothes when Dbaby was a newborn before putting them in the washing machine and my hands were sore and bleeding.

And when you wash by hand you don't get rid of much water by squeezing the clothes, my MIL says women used to have a mangle to do that. And that would mean mould growing. I am careful to air the flat and don't have any mould.

Just seen the price winky, thank you but we wouldn't be able to afford it at the moment we didn't even gave each other or baby any gifts www.lakeland.co.uk/21736/Heated-Tower-Airer?gclid=CMDu5c2P1LsCFTHLtAodikoAzw&src=gpelc&s_kwcid=AL!49!3!44052812531!b!!g!!lakeland%20dryer&ef_id=UlxbEAAAAF2UG6gE:20131228235738:s , but will try to save up and buy it maybe the next year.

I think I will have to use the tumble dryer, will wait until tomorrow.

For us, heating is more expensive. We have a gas cooker and cook 2-3 meals a day aswell, and use hot water for showers for 2 adults and 3 children. My gas bill increased to £105p/m at the start of the year. My electricity increased by a few pounds to £31p/m after I got my tumble drier. I turn everything off and try to save electricity as much as I can so we can save the money for using gas.

I've read about Lakeland clothes driers on here, apparently they're really good and worth the investment. I also know a quick method of drying clothes when you need them ASAP: place your item of clothing on a fluffy towel and roll up into a sausage and then twist from one end to the other side. Open the towel and place the clothing on the ironing board and place a cotton sheet or thin towel on top and then iron on high setting on both sides of clothing. It dries it out. Things like jeans will take longer.

Also drying clothes in the kitchen is a good idea because of the warmth of the cooker. Might make clothes smell though.

Fakebook I agree about the 'smelly' onions, I dry my clothes in the kitchen and yes, they sometimes smell of whatever I cooked on that day.
Thank you for the tip.

If you're putting the tumble drier on,put in a bone-dry towel with the load.It shortens the drying time by quite a lot.

Does noone use spin driers these days?
They do get quite a bit more water out!

Not smelly onions, smelly clothes! And my clothes did smell of onion twice

If you're hand washing make sure you're wearing some marigolds and use the spin only function on your washing machine.

I think in your situation I would hang to air dry and then tumble, it shouldn't take long given they're not straight out of the machine and will probably be dry long before the heating would've kicked in to start drying them.

no pity but hoping you get a tax rebate or something, worth checking if you're due considering the basic code has changed a couple of times

Double spin dry in machine and if you could afford, maybe, one of those driers you hang from the ceiling? Flying sheila, I think.
I often hang things on hangers from the door frame, makes things dry very quickly indeed as they are higher up and any warm air rises. Also works better upstairs, or in stairwell.

If you have a clothes airer, can you put it in front of the oven while it's on/cooling down after you've finished cooking, we do this & it helps a bit. (Disclaimer - leave a gap, & this is only suitable for when you're putting something in the oven & leaving it. Do not use if the hob is on!)

When our washing machine broke I spent a lot of time in our local laundrette and noticed that many people used their tumble dryers. The woman who runs it said it's much cheaper than any other way. Especially if they will let you keep washing in a dryer after it stopped. Really feeling for you and your baby - 15 is very cold.

I did read on here once that drying wet clothes indoors drops the temperature a bit and makes the air more damp. Could you dry them in a room you don't use much? And keep the doors closed to keep the heat in the rooms you do use?

There was a brilliant thread a while back about money/energy saving tips. Had so many fantastic ideas. Will see if I can find it.

Ooh found it!

Op something i do when not dry enough to hang clothes out is hang them on hangers or over radiator airers from the curtain poles with windows as far open as they can go. It gets them pretty dry so they only need finished off in tumble drier for 15/20 mins. Definitely recommend it.