To think my friend should not use her tumble dryer on lovely warm dry days.

[josta]

My friend is lovely, she's supportive, considerate and fun to be around, but one thing that I cannot agree with is the fact that she uses her tumble dryer 365 days a year.

It's on most of the day. She says she uses it to cut down on ironing. I have tried to pursuade her to hang it outside on many occasions but she just laughs it off. I think the more I mention it the more she digs her heels in.

I know it's none of my business but it bugs me, that she can be so ignorant about it.

Would it annoy anyone else, or is the problem mine?

onepieceoflollipop, am very much enjoying reading that thread on washing up and rinsing. Strongly resisting the urge to add a post(!)

Oh no tulip don't resurrect it!

I was a lurker in those days...was debating if mn was really for me, perhaps that thread swung it.

Your house will be colder if you use them to dry washing.

I won't, no worries.... Can I start a new one though, about having a shower after a bath???

hatrick, because the heat has to 'fight' more to keep the house warm, and if you have a thermostat, it'll be on for longer trying to work against the barrier of clothes getting in the way....

okay, on that note, I'm off to bed (it's 10pm here, so a bit more respectable!)- want to finish my bloody book that I have been reading for months.....

I'll check on this fascinating argument tomorrow morning me thinks.

Hatrick, there is no such thing as free energy (except from the sun).

If you are using your radiators to dry clothing, they are not heating your house. Evaporating water is very energy intensive.

Don't you love the way you find your way dragged into a thread and fighting your point tooth and nail, when actually you really don't care what everyone else does or what they think of you?!

I've finished my work now (almost half nine on a Sunday night - something wrong there!) so I'm off for a bath - a FULL bath of lovely hot water with bubbles. Toptastic!

Am rofl at the thought of discussing tumble-drier use with a friend.

NOT the sort of conversations I have with rl friends.

I would use the rotary drier...but one of the boys cut the lines years ago, and we've never got round to replacing it.

Do have a tumble dryer, but tend to use it only for towels and bedding, use airers usually.

Do use the dishwasher.

OP - You are not being entirely unreasonable, but if I were in your position I would try to be very subtle about it - try to persuade my friend whilst letting her think she had come to the "right" conclusion by heself.

It is not necessary to use a tumble drier. Convenient maybe, but not necessary. We line dry when the weather is good enough, or dry on racks inside. One of the advantages of an open fire is that it doesn't require any extra energy to get the clothes dry. When I go to bed, I stand the racks in front of the dying embers and the washing is dry in the morning (even the nappies).

We are 2 adults (both full-time WOHP), 2 kids, 1 dog, and use washable nappies. My house often resembles a Chinese laundry, but as a full-time WOHM, do I care?!!!

Well,
have to say I do use the dryer more than the washing line, as my dd tends to throw the washing over the fence Hence why if I do manage to peg the clothes on the line when dd is not around I would not hang out my knickers lol

i use my dryer for pretty much everything, i do occasionally hang stuff outside in the summer but not everyday.

1. i dont like the fresh air smell - think it must be something to do with living about 50yards from the sea.

2. we also have a hard water area so everything that hangs outside, even if its been washed with softner added still comes back in like cardboard.

3. I dont iron, unless it really has to be ironed, like shirts and uniforms so once its out the dryer and folded up whilst its still warm its generally fine.

4. you cant beat pulling a bundle of warm clothes out the dryer and "hugging" the warmth from them....ok, maybe i'm just weird with that one lol.

5. also, i dont find it takes up excessive electric TBH.

I have thought about my carbon footprint, but i dont have a dishwasher, i catch the bus 4 times a day 6 days a week to and from nursery and work - oh and my middle son is obsessive to the point of having an OCD about wasting electricity with having lights on that are not needed - and he's only 3!

IT wouldnt annoy me, its up to her!! Why would you let it affect your friendship?

I used to use my tumble dryer ALL the time, never hung the washing out, never used rads etc. But it broke and we couldnt afford a new one, now i do use the line and the rads etc. I wont get another one, was at how much cheaper our electric bills are. I dont iron - it is one of the most electric hungry of household gadgets dont you know

hatrick, scienceteacher is right. If the rads are in the same room as the thermostat, then they will have to work harder to achieve the same room temperature, so the boiler will cut in more often. If they are not in a room with a thermostat then the room will be cooler, which arguably isn't using more energy than you would have otherwise.

See advice here from e.on on towel radiators - it applies equally to any radiator used to dry wet things.

i hang washing out whenever i get theo pportunity. i work full time so my workmates are often disturbed by my wails when it starts to rain. that said, though, i just wait for it to dry up aagin. i don't rewash it.

and i am going to stand out and say i love my crispy towels. rubbing one of those on me in the morning is like drying and exfoliating all in one

my fucking gas bill is so high and this house is so cold there's no way i'd stick clothes on the radiators.

as it is three of us neighbours phone Calor on the same day when we are low on fuel otherwise it takes them weeks to get round to filling up our tanks - LPG out here.

you have to nag them like a harp from hell.

get a maiden to use indoors. just stick in in a bedroom or hall.

love the idea of a maiden.....with long, flowing hair, a psaltery, and one of those medieval dresses.....to dry clothes on

Whether or not I hang out my washing depends on how big the spiders are in the surrounding bushes that day (I'm in Oz!).

Soopermum you are wired about crunchy towels. No question.

I think we need a thread about electricity use from irons vs from tumble driers.