Laundry mathematics: How many airers do you have? Is there an optimum ratio?

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4 people: 2 airers
= not quite enough?
always having to wait 24 hours before putting on next load of washing. never catching up.

What works?
I can never bring myself to buy another airer, they are so fucking boring and not cheap.

One word.........Dehumidifier

i'm not sure that one would get past DH the eco-police.

airer rack on ceiling works twice as fast

i'll see where one could go, but low ceilings and small rented house.

I justify a dehumidifier on the basis that it is not a.........tumble dryer

but my towels come out of it soooo fluffy and soft

we have 2 and can fit up to 4 loads of washing on them - shirts, polo shirts etc go on hangers and hang off the airer too. socks hang on those clippy things that hang off the airer roo. We have airers similar to this

I use my line on every slightly nice day even if it's freezing. I have 2 airers but I HATE them clogging up my house. It all goes out until daylight goes then a quick tumble to finish the drying. I love my tumble drier and would use it more if it were free to run.

2 airers, 3 people, 2 cats.

I have one airer and we are five people and wear a lot of clean clothing/like clean sheets and towels.

However, I have a very warm and well ventilated apartment and use my tumble dryer a lot - not to dry clothes but I tumble for 10 minutes to remove creases before hanging to dry.

Oh man! I've just inadvertently done a ticker haven't I?

I have a wooden pulley in my futility room

I have a foldy airer that I only use in the summer as an add on to the washing line- I loathe airers in a house

I like to tumble dry or drape wet stuff artfully over the radiators

OP-get a tumble dryer for heavens sake

At the moment I have 2 full airers in the lounge - yes I know people will curl their lip in distaste, I hate them too - but unfortunately we have no tumble dryer and I've got a backlog of washing from when my pipes were frozen. The lounge has a log burning stove so is the warmest room in the house. I do 2 loads of washing a day and put a load on each airer.
I too can't wait until the weather is better and I can put it all out on the line!

4 cheap white metal/plastic airers. 2 doubles and 2 triples.
2 adults and 2 children. Is enough.

I have 6 dining chairs which all have 3 bars across each back. My dining area is currently a chinese laundry

1 adult, 2 children - 1 airer (takes 2 mid-sized (not full) loads).
If doing sheets then I hang then on radiator airers hung over the top of a door - so they get the full hanging length.

Ah but we have a washer/drier.
So if we're drying we're not washing.
It takes forever to dry clothes.
DH would have a fit.
We use it for emergencies only ie. uniform not dry at 8am kind of emergency.

We don't have an airing cupboard or a futility room.

1 airer, one ancient clothes horse! 5 people.

I put jeans/towels on the radiators. Air stuff over 24 hours an then 10 mins in the tumble drier.

I have 1 airer and there are 4 of us. I put shirts etc on hangers and hang them off the airer. Socks and undies go on radiators, jeans and sheets and towels go over the bannister. I have a largish landing and have found that the clothes dry quicker upstairs. When stuff is nearly dry (or if I have another load waiting to be dried)I put them on top of the immersion in the airing cupboard.
I do have tp plan what i am going to wash. I alternate stuff that will ned to go on the drier with stuff that doesn't. I also find that as stuff dries I can move it around on the drier and fold it in half to make more space. It's a full time job

this is the bugger you want. It's excellent, 4 loads of laundry, can put stuff on hangers, folds up flat, it's as tall as me. Buy it.

Just about to link to the Minky tower! You won't need anything else. I've chucked my others away.

2 adults, 3 children (one of whom is under 2)

I have this airer from IKEA.

It holds one load (I don't use the lower hanging area unless desperate)

I do one load a day - well overnight as I am on economy 7 electricity. Hang to dry during day and then put away when new load gets hung up the next day.

I never dry to catch up with the laundry as I do one load per day iyswim.

whites
coloureds
black stuff
towels
sheets
then back to whites.

ooh the minky could be the answer.

similar one here from ikea

I've got the jml dri-buddy and I bloody love it, doesn't seem to have made much of a difference to our electricity bill and I can get a whole load dry in a few hours. (perhaps someone lovely can link for me?)

Other than that I have a balcony airer which dh mounted on the wall in the box room which provides quite a lot of space and lies flush to the wall when not in use though it never is just the 2 of us though, but we do seem to make an awful lot of washing

there you are :)

JML dri-buddy