To ask how you dry your laundry in the winter?

[Marie0]

I seem to do washing every day - there are only 4 or us that seems too much.

Any way - although I do have a tumble dryer I’m reluctant to use it because it’s quite expensive- so just in ‘emergencies’.

But I don’t really like washing on the radiators all over the house - just doesn’t look nice.

I currently have a de-humidifier plugged in and 2 clothes airers set up.

But they take up so much room and because I wash every day - they are in constant use so a bit of an eye sore.

How do I overcome my laundry challenge?

We have a pulley above our Aga so things go on that or on an unheated aired and in front of the log burner or the Aga. Our house is old so we have a dehumidifier on 24/7 during the winter which we would need even if we didn’t wash anything.

I use a tumble dryer. It’s really not a lot of money if you have an energy efficient one and certainly less than turning up the heating for radiators or rewashing mouldy clothes. No brainier in rainy England.

Combination of tumble dryer, clothes horses and radiators. I use upstairs radiators and crack the windows open a little bit to allow excess dampness to escape - although probably doesn't do any good.

I then have one clothes horse in the dining room and one in the bath for stuff that can't be tumbled. Everything else goes in the dryer.

Tumble dryer. It means I was it, fold it and put it away on a couple of hours per load. Less ironing too. Win/win.

I always dry my towels on radiators. I use the concentrated comfort so I love the perfumed aroma it leaves around the home. It's not like the towels stay on the radiators 24/7. Put them on in the evening and they are done by the morning. Only have radiators on about 4-5 hours from sunset to sunrise in the winter months. Rest of the clothes seem to dry super fast on the airer with the heating on. Don't see why it would take long with heating on tbh. Just space them out properly and try to make sure clothes are not overlapping or touching too much when on airer by using the correct tiers with the sizes of clothing. Never used a tumble dryer and I have 4 DC and always managed well.

Out on the line if at all possible. Otherwise dehumidifier in utility room.
I avoid radiators as that’s a recipe for mould.

outside, of course. If the pavements are dry then so will the washing be.

breezy and not raining does it, although you have fewer hours to do it than in summer. Obviously.

I do 3-4 loads a week and I do them all on the weekend. 1 colour, 1 white and then 1/2 darks. They get washed and tumble dried. Anything that can’t be tumble dried gets put on the back of a door to dry.
My electric bill is fairly low, so the tumble dryer is barely noticeable.

We have a ceiling pulley maid up in our stairwell (we can stand on the landing to hang the washing and then pull it up out the way) works brilliant as all our heat seems to linger up there. To avoid damp we just leave the bathroom window open to allow some air in.

Aldi heated airer is on special buy in a couple of days

I tumble dry nearly everything. The convenience is worth it. Hardly anything lying around, plus towels etc come out really soft. Completely worth it.

Outside in warm weather. In wet/cold weather it usually goes in the dryer for an hour or so and then finish on the airer. My washer dryer never dries things evenly or I'd dry completely in the machine

I hang the washing on the rail at night, not plugged in, and by the morning they are ready for a couple of hours with the heated rail to finish them off. People tend not to mind these days if washing is on radiators and etc. Although the smell of clothing and especially sheets that have blown in the wind are a joy.

Spin washing twice in the washing machine to get as much water out if clothes as possible.
Put clothes on hangers in doorways- hot air rises and they'll dry faster.
My Mum once told me that, even in winter, if the path outside is drying then clothes in the line will dry- and she's right! Even if they half dry they'll dry quicker when you bring them in and put them on sites or in the tumble dryer

Overnight or all day on the airer behind kitchen door then finished in the tumble drier.

Tumble dryer all year round. Can't be arsed with pegging out or looking at clothes draped on airers.

Spin dryer - no space for a tumble dryer at all.

We then put thick things like jeans and towels on the radiators and everything else goes on the airer. Occasionally we either open the upstairs windows or put the fan on in that room to blow some air around the clothes to help them dry.

We wash clothes in fairly small loads (not half loads but not super crammed in like my mam does) so there's space to put them on the airer without having to fold them.

Tumble dryer on wet days, but only during the daylight hours so that the electricity from the solar panels power it. Washing line on dry days, no matter how cold. Given long enough, they do dry.

On the line outside even in winter if it's dry. Otherwise heated airer in the conservatory with the dehumidifier on. I get a couple of pints of water out of my dehumidifier in the morning and I figure that water would otherwise still be in my house so well worth it.

Lakeland heated airer here too.

heated air dryer from lakeland.

Just seen that Aldi have dehumidifiers coming in tomorrow.

There’s 3 of us but I do 2/3 loads every day!

This must be a crime. Or the world's smallest washing machine.

Life is too short to hang washing out. I use my dryer. Bung it all in. I'm not well of but im a busy working mum. The is my luxury

this thread proves how many really hate their kids. stuff them, lets waste fuel, eh?