Washing

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AIBU to ask how you all do your washing?

I see people on social media saying that they've done 5 loads of washing since they got back from holiday that morning.

HOW?

I can do one load per day max due to airer space and that's with a tumble dryer too so how do they do it? Do they not read the labels and shove everything in the tumble dryer?

Tips welcome!

I've got 4 kids, we've got superking bed, they all have doubles, 3 of us have long hair so extra towels, one incontinent cat, plus sports kits. Two loads a day min. No tumble dryer. I have a mega clothes airer than can take 2-3 10kg loads, and then there's the bannisters and doors. We've got UFH which helps dry stuff in about 24 hours.

I don't do lots of loads a day, but I could if I wanted to. Tumble dryer and large heated airer - tumble dry everything that can be tumble dried (including some things that can be, even though the label says don't). Put the few things that can't on the heated airer. My tumble dryer takes about 1 hour 40 mins to dry a full load. A bit longer if it's towels.

I only do more than one load per day if it's exceptionally hot and sunny and I can get a load of clothes on the airer outside and then a load of sheets on the line. Probably only happened about twice in my life lol. I refuse to be a slave to anything.

I bought a new washer dryer. It unbelievable how much quicker the dry cycle is compared to my last one. I can easily do several loads washing dried and away in a day.

Easily! I put everything in the tumble drier if it's not summer and then hang it straight up or fold it into the drawer it lives in. I never iron and I don't ever have a pile of laundry to sort.

I'm another 'bung it all in the dryer if it's a wet day' person (in my defence, it's a heat pump drier, so recycles its own hot air to keep energy costs down) and can easily do 4 loads a day if it's all piled up a bit 😅

I've only ever had 2 shrinkage issues (despite what care labels ever say) and that was 2 T shirts last year I'd bought from an independent shop so wasn't familiar with how 'hardy' they might be in the dryer 😳

But after a quick google, I found out that you can use a load of cheap fabric conditioner (any cheap own brand) in some water (I think cold, but would have to look it up again to be sure) and put the shrunk items in to soak. The conditioner will loosen the fibres, and then you can gently stretch the item back to it's original size. (Not sure if it would work for woollens though - this was T shirts).

So yeah, it all goes in the dryer, and it's survival of the fittest, or else a load of cheap fabric conditioner! 😊

Can’t do 5. 2-3 at most. I don’t use an airer. Don’t find they dry very quickly. Old 1900s terraced house. I do what you’re not meant to and put things on the radiators. I tend to put a wash on late in the evening before I go to bed so it’s finished by the time I go to bed. I’ll either hand it on radiators or wait too the morning to hang. But then get another load on straight away. Have to use the half time setting though or the washer takes too long. By the time that load is washed the radiator stuff if dry. Next load goes on to wash and swap again later in day. I stick heating on extra hours on wash days. In the summer it all goes out but then I find only 2 loads really dry. If it’s out too late in the day it starts getting damp once the yard is in the shade. When I’m hanging things I separate out all the underwear and pop in a basket and then all the underwear goes on at the end of a day to dry - combi washer dryer and they aren’t great at drying. Kids clothes get washed and ironed by a Sunday night if I start on a Friday once they’ve got changed in the evening with the first wash. They take up 2 coloured/dark loads. Then I do a white wash of all our whites together. On a Sunday night/Monday morning I get my clothes into the wash. I don’t work a Monday. It gets hung but rarely ironed and out away til the following week when it’s often added to the ironing pile.

I tried one of those heated airers and they were useless I thought.

I have a dry buddy. It takes about an hour and a half to dry a load, so as one is drying, one is washing. I sometimes put clothes on hangers and hang in doorways.

I can do 5 loads if I start early in the morning, especially if it’s a good drying day. I can get 4 or 5 loads hung outside but it would probably be too late to put the later loads out so I’d use a combination of the dryer, the airer thing with the cover that blows warm air around inside it, and the airers we have on the backs of the doors. I also have a big airer which I use by the fire in the winter. If I time it all right, the tumble dryer and thing with the cover will have finished drying by the time the line stuff comes in, so I can then use those 2 things to quickly finish it off.

I did 4 8kg loads yesterday! Hung outside to dry but we have 2 airers and radiators if we do it inside.

You're all 1950s washerwomen! 2 adults, 2 teens, 3 loads a week including towels all done at the weekend. What the heck are you all washing, do you all own 1 set of clothes each?!

Saturday 8am - put a weeks washing into two giant machines at launderette. Pay staff £2.00 to transfer wet washing into dryers and pay for dryers (this also avoids confrontation with any angry people muscling in on dryers as launderettes can be ruthless places). Go to supermarket to do big weekly shop.
9.30 am - return to launderette to fold and organise lovely clean, dry clothes.
10am - put away the 95% of washing that won't be ironed. Shopping and washing done!
Gave up on washing at home when our last machine died. Not going back. This is so much better.

The very reason I got a tumble dryer, I can't live with this sort of untidiness around me. Have the heat pump one and it's extremely efficient. We do 2 loads a day 5 days a week.

Op, I’ve hung clothes on hangers from the shower rod, towel racks, dining room chairs, breakfast table chairs, hang clothes from doorknobs and cabinet pulls, draped over wicker seats and backs of benches, on hangers hooked over tops of cabinet doors and regular doors…could probably think of a dozen more places. There’s also an outside washing line, in dryer of course, closet with door open…yes it can be done easily I would think.

Oh yes bannisters and newel posts. All kinds of places. Get creative, op.

Put my washing on a flat top airer, cover with a flat sheet but leave a gap at the side and have a wee oscillating fan heater blowing into the gap. Just make sure the sheet doesn't touch the heater. Clothes dry in 90-120mins

How big is your washing machine ?!

There's 5 of us here. Just towels and bath mats alone is 4 washes a week.

3x beds (littlest co sleeps) = 3 washes a week.

I'm on 7 and I haven't even started with the clothes !

I do all washing on the same day (usually Friday)
4-5 loads, some tumble dried, some air dried. I have the space so why not. Then on Sunday once dry, I put them all away.

I have 2 airer's so could dry 2/3 loads on those. I only tumble towels and bedding.
I can't stand clothes having around the house (radiators etc) so although I could wash more, I wouldn't. Unless I could dry it all outside / in the 2 airer's

No idea. I use a heated airer with a sheet over and a dehumidifier and stuff still takes more than a day to dry especially jeans and trousers

The Lakeland Heated Airer is what you need.

All this washing makes me feel filthy!

There's only two of us and no pets. In winter, we wear tops and shirts twice before they go in the laundry basket. Clean undies daily.

I do three washes per week - one bedding, one towels and one for everything else. Occasionally I'll do a fourth load.

Wow can't believe 5 loads a day ! Don't do that a week in this house.
Electricity bills must be so high washing machine on so often.

I haven't done a load since weekend, will switch on now over night cycle takes about 90 min.
Dry on clothes horse a very dry warm house so that doesn't take too long. It is the next step, folding or ironing and putting away which is the slow part for me always so busy put it on long finger.

In wet weather/winter. Tumble for heavy stuff like towels. Heated airer for lighter stuff like cotton T-shirts and woollen jumpers. Regular airers for gym type kit and stuff thats surplus. One sits on top of tumble because heat roses. All hung in same room, door shut and with dehumidifier and/or extractor fan running. Usually get all of it dry by morning and only run one or two tumble loads.

in sunny/dry/windy weather I have my regular double pulley lines, another two I string between the trees if needed plus washing racks can go outside with extra laundry on.

I didn’t see the part about doing the 5 loads EVERY DAY. Whoa that’s nuts. I was thinking having to do 5 loads one day a week when I commented on the op. Sheets and towels should only have to be done once a week. Then each person is one or two loads a week. Surely?