To wonder how on earth anyone copes without a tumble dryer?

[Bumbles55]

Ours broke yesterday and I feel like I’ve lost a limb! Having to wait an entire day or more for washing to dry (and having to put the heating on full blast 24/7 in order to facilitate this) is torture. I’m so used to washing uniform etc at night and being able to quickly chuck it in the tumble dryer in the AM whilst we get ready. Washing loads take proper pre planning now! Despite it being only DD and I at home we easily get through one full wash per day so the house is already absolutely covered in clothing drying on radiators etc.

The new one won’t be delivered for 2 weeks - unsure how I’ll survive in the meantime 🤣

I don’t have one and never have. Have 5 in our family and managed fine hanging it out to dry. Today I hung it out and then put it on racks to finish it off overnight.

Change your clothes less often? How can two people justify one wash a day??

Well I’ve never had one, have three children including frequent bedwetters…

I have a heated airer (and room to use it), two rotary dryers in a southwest facing garden, (in a fairly dry bit of the country) and in the winter sometimes take three loads of wet washing to the launderette where I can dry it all for about £6.

YANBU, we don’t have one and it’s such a pain! Giving an evil glare at the washing currently drying on my radiator as I type this.

Haven’t had a dryer for years. Just use a heated clothes dryer . It’s fine . Delayed start was overnight . Hang it out in the morning. Dry in the evening. Take it off and put it away . Easy peasy x

I am sorry to not feel your pain. It is about your regular routine, I have never had a tumbler (washable nappies for the babies as well!) so laundry was done with military preparedness.

If you can get an electric airer from lakeland delivered it will help corral the washing into one place.

God speed!

I’m just used to hanging out washing and know that turnaround time for a load is about 4 days because of the drying time.

No heating on yet.

i did once have a tumbler but it would obviously only dry about half of our clothes, was only in use about half the year, was very noisy, couldn’t be run in the evenings or overnight, couldn’t be run when we were out, so had very restricted use.

I can’t cope without ours. Trying to dry in the house makes too much damp for DS chest.

I hardly use it when weather is dry enough to dry outside but it’s a godsend in winter!

Not sure whereabouts you are in the UK but it’s been freezing here all week (first time I’ve seen an ice warning on my car this year!) and raining most days - absolutely no chance of getting anything dried outdoors. In autumn/winter I don’t even try to be honest.

The same way we coped for thousands of years before they were invented?

I barely own any clothes that would go in a dryer. We use a clothes horse with a dehumidifier. Outdoors whenever we can do that though

Never had one. In summer I use the washing line, in winter I take it to the dryers in the launderette

We use a hanging rail like a wardrobe rail. Hang clothes and run a dehumidifier. They dry overnight, and no damp for the house.

Haven’t had one for years since our broke. Family of five.

Only have to use the heating if we want it drying fast or haven’t done any for a couple of days. We use an airier on the landing with a dehumidifier.

I feel your pain . I love the convenience and feel better that I know that whatever the weather and the hours I work can always have uniforms ready .

Our dryer just belted out all the moisture into the air in the house, there would be water running down the tiles and we’d always need all the windows open as they would steam up if the dryer was on.

Do you wear a lot of synthetics? I got rid of ours years ago because it shrank cotton like nobody's business. We've done 3 loads today it's cold but bright and blowy so it's been out on the line, the last load there were a couple of heavier bits not quite there so they're now on an airer by the log burner. I did take our summer duvets to the DIY launderette machine recently, do that twice a year wash and tumble in the giant machines then pack away for the opposite season.

YANBU! I can’t cope without mine - hanging out washing (especially socks!) is so time consuming. My husband is a builder and I have horses so doing less washes is not an option

I have a lakeland heated airer thats in use from Oct to April. I still hang washing outside on a sunny day. I don't like the high electricity use, noise, condensation and fire risk from tumble driers and we never had one growing up so I've never missed it.

Its just me and 2 x DC and I'm fairly disciplined about not washing stuff unless its dirty/smelly, using towels a few times before washing and waiting for a sunny day to do the bed sheets etc etc.

DD and I do. The answer is a 7kg washing machine. Sheets, kitchen/hand towels,towels, DD’s work clothes which get skanky, my clothes. Washer only takes smallish loads so towels take 2 days just by themselves. Rented house, can’t change the machine.

I have a dehumidifier and x2 airers, plus a washing line for dry days.

I do have a tumble drier but barely need to use it, thankfully.

How can anyone cope without a washer drier? I put dirty clothes in and they come out clean AND dry. Why would you want to be wrestling with wet washing when you don’t have to be? Why have 2 machines when one does an excellent job?

John Lewis, £650

We have one but never use it. I do have 5 sets of uniform for the kids, but I just do all the washing once a week and hang it all out on clothes horses. They dry fine and I can't believe you need to wash every day!

They used to manage without washing machines , but I don’t fancy going back to a wash tub and mangle . Each to their own but I love my tumble dryer.

I used to have a tumble dryer and it was a God send when my son was growing up and when we were a family.

I've not had one for many years and although i do miss having one to finish the clothes off I manage perfectly well. Being able to hang the clothes outside and also living alone helps.

Actually if I bought a tumble dryer now I would be too worried about the cost of running it to use it