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

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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!

I hang washing outside in a washing line and some on an airer if I have lots to do. Anything not fully dry I will put in an airer overnight and it seems to be ok in the morning. Occasionally I use the tumble dryer if things build up and the weather is bad. Also we have started having a wood fire some weekends so I put the airer in warm room and that seems to work. It is the towels in the bathroom that just sit there damp and don't seem to get dry as towel rail is not going that drives me mad.

We have a heat pump dryer. It actually makes the downstairs warmer. 50p a load. I’m happy with that.

Mine too. If you've got any shelter in your garden it helps though. I open doors at either end of the greenhouse and hang stuff in there for a wind tunnel effect. I put everything on hangers and hang up on the edges of the mantelpiece to finish off with the heat of the woodstove when I come home.

Geez just looked up our tumble drier. It’s gone up £250 in the last year!

Our bathroom radiators can be either used with central heating or in their own electrically, it might be worth switching to those?

Ahh the luxury of a heat recovery system in our house. washing will be bone dry in maybe 3 hours wash, hang& put away

This is why I got the dryer. A heat pump one. Dry and ready to be packed away in under 2hours. I think people get fooled that a dehumidifier does the trick, it's also might be even costlier to run.

I have a fan heater with a timer and a dehumidifier setting in the spare room. I do two loads at a time, hang on the clothes horse, hangers on hooks etc and set the heater with dehumidifier setting for an hour and have the window on vent so the moisture can escape and door shut.

I use the tumble dryer when I need stuff quickly like work uniform, but like a pp I can't really line dry effectively because I'm at work, and because I live near a pizza place and if it's out when they're open everything stinks of food.

Just prompted me to check mine. 25% price increase - more without the special offer for my John Lewis cardholders.

I line dry until it's cold so until November at least. In the house I use hangers in the bathroom for large items and hang off towel rack, shower and bathroom window, shut the door and open the window to get rid of damp, clothes and towels are dry in 1-2 days. For small items they go on a clothes airer either in kitchen or loft room again are dry in 1-2 days. Only use the tumble dryer in emergencies when we need work or school uniform items the next day. This is for environmental as well as cost reasons although it seems they don't use as much energy as I'd thought. In any case it's not much 'faff' and I'm used to it. I don't like the tumble dryer as clothes get a 'scorched' smell which I don't like even if in for a relatively short amount of time. I also think items will wear out more quickly if tumbled every time.

And my heating won't go on until it's actually cold, same as every year. At the moment it's a little chilly at night but a blanket means we are cosy on the sofa, heatung is just not needed. If cold in the day a jumper plus warm socks makes it perfectly pleasant to be in the house.

We're far north, it's cold and not possible to dry outside from end Sept. There's only 2 of us now, so we do 2nd spin, then put on radiators or clothes hangers on back of doors. None are ideal tbh and I'm thinking of getting an old fashioned pulley for my kitchen.

You may want to check the cost of the humidifier and heater against tumble dryer costs.

Mine has never given a "scorched" smell, nor worn clothes out. Is it an old model? Modern ones are great.

Bought in 2016. I've always noticed it whenever I've used a table dryer. A damp heated up smell

That's very strange. I've never known that. Are you clearing the filters? Sounds a bit faulty.

I Double spin and line dry everything.
I live up North, don't own a tumble dryer. I've always put washing out, even in Winter as long as it's windy. Then finish off on an airer with the window open if it's still damp.
Always dry by the next morning

We don’t have a tumble dryer but sometimes use my parent’s to dry bedding. I can always tell when something has been in the dryer by the smell.

How weird. My laundry smells of nothing, apart from freshness!
Is it being over dried, do you think? Look at the settings.

Our dehumidifier costs 65p to run for 8hrs. We have to have a dehumidifier anyway because we've had issues with damp even when we weren't drying clothes inside.

When we are drying washing, the dehumidifier gets 4lts of water a day. It doesn't sound much until you imagine throwing 4lts of water at the walls! 😂

Pressed send too soon.

A fan costs about 10p to run for 8 hours so with careful planning, we can get 2 loads of washing dry for 75p.

Actually, I'm not sure how much the fan costs to run as online estimates seem to vary a lot! At the highest price given, it will cost 35p apparently so even then, it's 2 loads of washing for £1.

I can fit three loads on my airer.

the heating is set up to heat individual rooms. So the heating goes on for 2 hours to dry the washing (once it’s all hung out). 2 hours heat plus residual heat once the rad turns off tends to do the trick.

once it get colder and the log burner goes on I’ll put the washing over the stairs as it’s toasty warm then.

Microfibre towels are great. Got some from Aldi that are bath towel sized and soft.

Initially for camping but now we just use them as dry so much faster

you could use a dehumidifier in some sort of tent using polythene, not pretty, but effective.
found a decent post here refurbinators.com/dehumidifiers-for-drying-clothes/