To ask how you dry your laundry these days?

[InsomniacVampire]

We are a household with 2 kids. Shedloads of laundry each week. There is a garden, but it's either raining, or so cold that the laundry comes back wetter than when it came out even in the sun.
We used to own a Drybuddy but it broke and anyways we could not afford to run it now with the cost of electricity. One clothes horse (we dont have space for much more really) in the kitchen does not do the trick as the clothes take a bit to dry...
I do realise there is no magic trick but maybe someone has some creative solutions for this, or also just wants to moan about wet laundry...

I use a tumble dryer as I have since having my first child.

Outdoors if it’s not raining, or on a ceiling rack in the kitchen above the Aga. Dries most loads during the day (we wash reusable nappies etc daily so I couldn’t live without it)

Heat pump tumble dryer. Previous condenser model was costing a fortune, got a great deal on an A++ heat pump dryer which is very economical to run

Creel / ceiling airer.

Tumble dryer…

Hang it in the utility room - indoor line

Hanging on coat hangers either on curtain poles (above radiator) or hanging in the airing cupboard but can only fit a few things in there at one time. I've got a couple of plastic airer things that hang on radiators for pants/socks.

Well the Majorca trick is the tumble drier

Magic not Majorca

l have a heated area and a dehumidifier as well as a laundry rack in one small room. The heating is also left on in that room.lt’s a small room with a small radiator.

The heating is srtrictly controlled everywhere else. If clothing is t dried fast it smells.

Launderette. Can dry two loads in a big machine for £1.20. Otherwise it was taking days to dry even on the heated airer.

Outside on the line. Always. I was given a tumble dryer 4 years ago and have never used it. Not once.

I got two loads dry today, including towels and thick hoodies. You just have to get attuned to the weather forecast and pick your day. ( Not tomorrow here!)

Replaced my old 1000 rpm washer with a 1600 rpm one.

Wear outer layers made of man made fibres. Thin underlayers of cotton if your skin can't tolerate them. Jeans, chunky wool jumpers which retain lots of water and difficult to dry big no no.

Watch weather forecast for when conservatory will heat up like a greenhouse, do washing and dry clothes then.

Use non fluffy towels and dry out in the airing cupboard after use.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

i wouldn’t mind a heated area…

I shut it all in one room on my heated and covered airer, and also run a small dehumidifier. Takes much longer than tumble drier, but is hopefully much cheaper too

heat pump tumble drier. Fairly cheap to run. Anything that can goes it there with dryer balls. The rest goes on the airer which inevitable ends up with that horrid damp smell so I make sure to time hanging it up to coincide with the 1 hour that we actually have the heating on

Dry outside if nice and finish off on radiators and clothes airer in spare bedroom. Otherwise use the tumble dryer as not as expensive as I thought.

Next to log burner.

We are a family of five with no tumble dryer. My biggest tip is just to cut down on the amount of washing you do! Can you do sheets and towels less frequently, and encourage people to wear clothes for longer?

Exactly what @Pollymollydolly said.

Following this thread! We tumble dry underwear, bedding, all kids clothes and towels.

But for DH and I - our clothes tend to shrink in the dryer and the "low" temp is still scorchio

So we hang them on the line. However today, despite bright blue skies and sunshine - nothing dried.

So we just brought it indoors and we have clothes EVERYWHERE. Not ideal :(

DH has a long torso and short legs so tumble drying his t shirts / jumpers are a bad idea, otherwise he's always untucked with his belly on show 🤣

Tumble dryer. It actually doesn’t use a ridiculous amount of electric really, and as long as you don’t have it on all day every day it’s honestly worth it. Clothes are dry in an hour, easy. I have 7 kids and do a load of washing at least once a day, sometimes more and to be honest our electric bill isn’t anymore than our friends and family that don’t have one! So yeah I’d just use one personally.

Two ceiling pulley things and try and only do two loads of washing at once or the humidity levels means nothing dries for ages. Shut the door and open the window a little.

Tumble dry everything.

Outside if it's sunny, otherwise on hangers hooked on the Velux windows in the loft. We do have a tumble dryer for towels and sheets.

My daughter is in a rental property. Air bricks are blocked up, lots of condensation on the windows and the beginnings of mould. We emphasised when we were with her last weekend that she and her flatmates need to ventilate the rooms, but that causes issues amongst them over lost heating!