To be able to cope without heating on except for the laundry issue?

[A580Hojas]

Nothing gets dry! We have a dehumidifier, we have a tumble dryer (which I will only use as a last resort) and already the laundry is piling up everywhere. We don't overdo it with laundry either - bedding every 2 weeks, bath towels once a week, tops usually do two wears, jeans and trousers probably 6 or 7 wears. There's 3 of us living here atm.

It's horrible when your bath towel isn't properly dry from yesterday when you get out of the shower. The hand towel in the kitchen doesn't get dry.

Aarrggh!

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@Notplayingball
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I agree with you, @Hugasauras and @QueenCamilla. Strange laundry martyrdom.
Why put up with damp washing and a damp house?

I just try to have a routine which is boring but makes it much easier.

check weather. If it’s forecast dry I put a load on when I go to bed on a timer to start 6am. it’s finished just before the school run. I don’t use my line as it’s less in the sun this time of day - I use two airers which I can move into sunny, breezy positions in the garden.

I bring it in 4ish after work and then air things like towels over the bannisters (airflow and rising heat works here). Remainder stays on the airers to literally air, and finish last bits of drying overnight.

Next day repeat. If it’s very wet I just leave the airers indoors but the next morning, ie 24 hours later, put stuff in the dryer and set a timer for 10 minutes.

Don't have an outside area and I was sick and tired of laundry on airers. Tried the dehumidifier and heated airer - waste of money. It still needs a full day AND you need a dedicated room or space for it. I bought a heat pump dryer recently and every single load goes in there. Clothes are dried in less than 2 hrs and I actually end up doing less loads of laundry. We now have our spare room back as well.

I just use my tumble dryer - they are charging me for it anyway - £150 more a month this winter than last - my heating is on less and I've become that parent with lights! but I'm not going to freeze or sit around damp washing - not yet anyway

Wearing trousers for 6 or 7 is pretty grim.

Also who has time to babysit airers?? Turning over the clothes every few hours. And after a day or 2 drying, clothes undoubtedly have that slight damp smell.

I follow the weather which still dries most things and then finish the few bigger items off by rotating them into the airing cupboard for an hour.

This is exactly the type of babysitting I'm talking about. Who has the time for that faff.

Let me tell you, if men were responsible for family laundry, tumble dryers would be available on the NHS.
(now people will come on and say how their husbands manage the airers/lines whatever.....)

I don’t tumble dry clothes as I had trouble with it shrinking them, but I do still use it for towels. Any ‘heavy’ clothes like jeans get hung in the airing cupboard as I can squeeze a small number of things around the tank. Then I have an over the door airer that fits inside it as well and use that for dds’ period pants which seem to take an age to dry otherwise.

The rest of their clothes are on an over the bath airer. I’ve been using a small oil filled radiator in there and they dry really quickly then. Electricity and water don’t mix I know, but it’s a calculated risk I’m prepared to take.

I dry my clothes on hangers in my room and they still seem to be drying relatively quickly, even though the heating hasn’t been on.

My heated airer has really come into its own this very mild but soggy Autumn. I use it with a dehumidifier and laundry is dry within a few hours. I also have some clothes on a normal airer wafting in the breeze created by the dehumidifier.
We don’t wfh so can’t take the chance with putting clothes to dry on the line at this time of year.

We don’t have a tumble dryer and, even if I did, I am not keen on drying normal clothes that way. Useful for sheets and towels though.

I basially do the same as this and we always have done. I guess we just about have the time for the 'faff', but not the money to have endless hours of heating to dry everything indoors or tumble dry everything. Fair enough if you don't need to do the 'faff', if I had more money and didn't need to worry about the gas or electric then I probably wouldn't bother either. However, unfortunately I don't have more money, and do have to worry about the bills, so I need to do the faff.

We are still drying outside, maybe half an hour on the heated airer at the end of the day to finish it off. Blowy but cold still dries everything.

I know what you mean @A580Hojas . I have a perfect airing /drying cupboard but it is in the boiler cupboard and if the heating isn't on then it doesn't get dry as fast and can then get that musty smell. Same with the towels. I had the tumble dryer on yesterday - twice. 😂

Why? You wear pants under them? If you perspire a lot, perhaps they’d get smelly but this time of year, they don’t. Men wear suit trousers for far longer than that!

I can't stand the floppy feel of clothes that have been tumble dried so that's my issue I guess.

Exactly what I was going to say. Also no water near it, like an open toilet.

I just use the tumble drier at least for heavier washes, maybe hang a clothes rack inside if I’m going to have the heating on.
So many people saying they line dry all their washes still but they must not be working full time. There is no way I could hang my washing at 7am and be home at 6pm. It would be soaked more often than not.

Do you have a ceiling drier? They work well.
I put a dehumidifier under it and a floor fan next to it. Not a heated fan, just one that blows air about.
The fan makes a huge difference to how quickly things dry and doesn't use much electric.

Apparently the dehumidifier and airer works better in a closed room but we don't have that option.

Bring back the heatwave. Dry in no time.

I am In Scotland and it’s still fine to dry things outside. You can dry outside for a lot of the year, even an hour or two on a cold, windy day will get it dry enough to finish off easily overnight on a clothes airer inside

@QueenCamilla

Why don't you stop opening threads that annoy you. Let people discuss what they want to discuss & you open threads that interest you. It's a simple concept,

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@ghostyslovesheets

They are not charging you for it anyway! You only pay for what you use. The more you use, the more you're charged. At the end if your billing period, you'll owe them or they'll owe you depending on how much you use v how much you've paid.

Can anyone recommend a dehumidifier?