If you don't have a tumble dryer............................

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How often do you do the washing?

I don't have one and I am finding I can only do washing every other day to make sure the stuff on the airers has dried. My back yard is too shady at this time of year so until the spring/summer I have to dry things indoors.

Before anyone suggests I buy a tumble dryer - I can't afford one.

TIA.

We get a bit of damp in our house but I think it is because if it's a really cold day I don't want the window open (Which I should if i'm drying washing).
I think I may need to look at getting a dehumidifier for when I am drying washing.

Hello belgo!

Your perspective is very interesting. Would you do me a favour, and weigh a load of washing (1) when it is dry, before it goes in the machine (2) after it has been spun, when you take it out?

TIA

I don't have a weighing scale in the house.

we have rising damp. It comes from breakdown of the damp proofing - the house is victorian. Not the washing. But there's little we can do about either. The washing has to dry in front of the open fire because thats where the heat is.

I've known a landlord try and blame damp on my friend washing the floor with a mop - despite the fact that she had never mopped the floor of that particular room. The landlord was simply trying to renegade on his duty to keep the house in a decent condition.

I've never had a drier, nor did my parents. We dry as my parents do/did, on a pulley airer (dries much faster than a clothes horse) and outside when we can. My back yard is very shaded and sheltered from the wind which is a pain!

I have moved a lot in the past 5 years, most places had damp. They had damp because they were badly maintained, because the damp proof coursing was shoddy, because they had been lived in by various generations of students who could not afford to heat them properly (and neither could we), one was hideous because it was an old stone built house that had been rendered so the stone couldn't breathe. This house we own. It does not have damp (except in the kitchen bathroom extension which has not got enough ventillation but that mould comes from cooking/showers not washing. Extractor fans are on my to do list). I open windows every day to air it and it is fine. Yes, we get some condensation, I accept that if I have a particularly heavy washing day (when circumstances conspire to add extra loads all at once such as vomit, bedwetting etc) it isn't ideal but for fairly normal washing levels of a load a day the condensation doesn't happen.

We don't have any damp at all and I don't open the window as often as I should.

I have a dryer but only use it in an emergency. Think it destroys clothes.use clothes horses.

we have a combi machine so the dryer is there for emergencies, but we get by with doing washing every day and a half or so and having a lot of airers.

Never had one. Don't even want one. TD shrink stuff too much and dh is large. wash every other day becasue it takes 2 days to dry on airers, radiators, thrown over doors. Use airing cupboard for things that MUST be dry by next morning. Liking the look of some of the lakeland airers.

might be an old fashioned bit of kit but spin dryers spin @ 2800, surely that's going to take out enough extra water (compared to a 1400 washing machine) to make it worth using?

or am I deluded?

If you have the room and the money to purchase a spin dryer - they will set you back nearly 100 quid, if you have the room and money and already have a 1400 spin speed why not get a td? and get the clothes dry

not sure of the electric use of a spin dryer in comparison to a td

Tumble drier costs about 50p for a full cotton load. Synthetics and part loads will be less. Spin drier is going to be a lot less, and most energy is used by heating elements.

Blimey that's £150+ a year to dry laundry, when you could do it for free!

pbb Worth every fricking penny!!!

Hang it on the line, save the planet. It'll be spring soon.

£150 is 2 months combined energy bill for me. I'll stick to line-drying and only washing stuff which really needs washing, thanks!

You could always just give it an extra spin in the washing machine.