Please help settle an argument between me and dh

[fatbottomgirl67]

Bit of background We live in smallish house. 5 of us , 3 big teenagers, me and dh.Lots of washing as you can imagine. Husband has practical outside job, kids all Into out door activities. No tumble dryer and not getting one. Washing drys on radiators and airers at this time of year. Here's the problem Dh has an obsession with putting the airer in our bedroom. I hate with a passion having damp washing in our bedroom but he can't see the problem
Bedrooms should be a place to relax not be surrounded by wet clothing. I should add our room is really warm so does dry well but I really hate it. I set it up In the dining room. But he hates it been visible. Who is being unreasonable?

You are both BU for not getting a tumble drier.
It isn't expensive if you factor in all the labour costs you save, and all the either damp / condensations damage in your house, or, if you are opening windows to release that, then the cost of heating the sky.

If I had the space in the bedroom then I would have the washing in there. Our washing is in the living room during the wet cold days and I really don't like seeing it in there daily (it's also a hassle when we have visitors). We use dryer for towels and a few other items bit it's very costly to dry it that way. If your space permits I would have it in the bedroom. It's also out of the way.

I'd go with the overhead airer option in the utility room. I bet you could relocate quite a bit of stuff from there.

Do you really have a dining room sitting unused for most of the time?

Just realised you have a Rayburn.

Just use the airer thewoolly linked to and Iet the Rayburn. It will take minutes for everything to dry!

Managed 3 loads on the line today so yes I peg it out all year round but we've had a lot if rain recently. Plus made all 3 kids clean their rooms so we have mountains of washing again! Just brought it all to a head for me. Drives me up the wall. Why can't they put it I the baskets as they go rather leaving it on their bedroom floors. Shown this thread to Dh and he's coming round to the utility idea as long as I can 're home stuff from cupboards. Why is there never enough space in our house

Sorry, haven't rift but what shape airer do you have? Although the big square ones are popular I find that a "winged" one that is long and flat (?!) works better in my utility space as it goes against a wall. Make sure you get one where the "wings" are heated, apparently Lakeland's are not. I got mine on amazon for about £25

A dryer would cost half the price of the extra gas you're using to heat the rooms through wet clothing slung all over the radiators. Ours costs pennies to run and we run it all week. It's not 1986 anymore you know. They are very cost effective.

That rayburn drier is fab. I could certainly use that and the one in the utility and we would be sorted. Thank you wise women of mumsnet you have given me hope

We haven’t a Rayburn , but an Aga , and I dry as much as possible on top of it
I wouldn’t have a drying rack in the bedroom ( partly because it’s freezing in there )
Banisters ?
Brilliant for drying sheets and towels
I’d go for the utility room idea

I have this problem too as I've got no space for a tumble dryer. I have my airer in the dining room, I don't really like it being downstairs, but I prefer that to having it in the bedroom. I'm not sure it's very healthy to be breathing in damp air while you sleep.

I have drying racks in the utility room with heater under. There is high level shelving over this for storage and kitchen unit storage and worktop on the adjacent wall. I have two collapsible ikea racks over the worktop and two instahangars over the heater so they can collapse when empty. I dried three loads of washing that way today.

DH and I both work outdoors and DD is at a forest school nursery.

I agree with you about the washing in the bedroom, I would hate it. Tell your DH you cant possibly get in the mood if there is washing in the room .

I have just googled the rayburn dryers. They are amazing. Why didn't I know they existed. Working out which is the right one for us then ordering tonight!

Mad not to have a drier. Sorry. I can clean and dry 4/5 loads of laundry on a busy day. I don't know how you keep up with everything having to dry it indoors.

Does your washing machine have a timer? If so, put everything in the night before and time the the load to finish when you get up. Put washing to dry anywhere you like and then put it away when you get home from work/when teenagers get home from school so you don't need to look at it!

Op that's great you've found a solution, good old Mumsnet and woolly

I love having the Airer in our bedroom as it humidifies the air which is so dry at this time of year with the heating on.

Get a 3 gate airer.

And haunt ebay for the 2nd hand one of these www.agacookshop.co.uk/rayburn-pan-rack.html

Put your t shirts folded on the lids at night.

Edge the door and drape jeans and heavy stuff over the front rails.

Fill that pot rack with washing

And if you need to stand the rack in front as flat as you can get it.

In the short term you could take turns with the bedroom/dining room, but if DH has had his way for a while you should use the dining room for a while as (if the case) he’s had his way for some tome.

If the DCs are teens and slacking on putting stuff into the laundry basket they could do their own washing and dry it in their rooms. Or not, which would be their problem.

If you’re really clever and careful you can put an over bath airer with the feet on the rail and balance it against the wall above the airer.

One like this www.homehardwaredirect.co.uk/ProductInfo?ProductID=8885&source=googleps&gclid=Cj0KCQiAp8fSBRCUARIsABPL6JZ2gfyJy_BvcC76avQkP-rM6HhJl7YU7-ZL1Y227IK1oXUNVNT77akaAjWxEALw_wcB open it out and make it one beside the other and then just put the feet on the rail and lean it against the wall. (I did it for years til I got my rack)

Outside when the weather is dry and then finished off in whichever room it dries quickest? We put ours on our toppest landing, so it catches the rising heat.

In during day, out at night while you sleep. I sympathise. There are 4 of us here; no drier and no central heating. I have clothes horses everywhere. One tip - the kids get their own clothes horse for their own stuff and it goes in THEIR room. That might free a little space for you.

Wall above the Rayburn not airer.

@fatbottomgirl67 my house is really clean and tidy everywhere. Nothing on radiators or hanging round left on the table...till you get to my room. Its "tidy" but the dumping ground for the washing basket and everything that needs sorting. I would rather have it hidden in my room where nobody can see rather than downstairs in a communal place for guests to wander past. We have baskets in every room with lids for "stray" items so theres no visible (only hidden) mess. Personal preference I guess

I like drying clothes on the airer in the bedroom as I have some vague notion that dry air is bad for you, so the clothes add some moisture. They also dry quickest in there. And I get quite an odd thrill at seeing how perfectly things have been hung on there, all symmetrical and balanced!

(it is a PITA to move as it sits in front of the drawers though!)

I would dry In bedroom in the day and dining room at night