Air drying vs tumble drying

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DH recently saw something on tv saying how air drying clothes indoors is really bad for dust, allergies, mould etc - prob along the same lines as this
So he bought a tumble dryer.
I'm all for tumble dryers for use in emergency drying situations, but believe them to be expensive, environmentally bad and damaging to clothes, so I still insist on air drying stuff (which in winter months, with 3 kids, means laundry and drying is fairly constant). DH is dead against air drying now and it is leading to constant arguments.
Does anyone know (and pref have any evidence) of which is preferred method?

I don't have space for both so when and if my machine dies I want a combined one. It is unlikely that I would ever want to use both at the same time as I have undercover space but when its damp its damp.

Be careful Rosa and choose wisely. The most unreliable piece of electrical equipment I ever purchased was a combi machine.

Try not to dry cloths indoors be it on a radiator or on a rack. The water from the cloths evaporates into the air and makes the air the walls and the windows damp which will cause mould and possibly mean you catch more colds throughout the year and the house will smell bad with damp washing drying out.

If you can not line dry then tumble dry. Tumble dry might cost 30p a go but if it saves you or your family getting a cold or living in damp conditions then its worth it.

If you can not tumble dry then spin dry in a dedicated spin dryer they are about £100 and will take most the water out which means less evaporating onto the walls and windows making you ill.

An alternative is to dry them in one room on a rack and close the door and open the window of that room. That way at least the whole house does not get damp just the one room.

I hate tumble drying my clothes. I used to have to in the past and not having anywhere to hang things to dry. I now line dry as often as possible, but since I am in Scotland there is a lot of time I can't dry outside.

I hang clothes on airers and use a dehumidifier to stop dampness in the house. I do have a tumble drier for finishing off items that I don't iron, but I don't use it for full wet loads.

We have a tumble dryer. I'm not sure how anyone with a family manages without one in winter. With 2 DC's, between school uniforms, PE kits, normal clothes and underwear and 2 lots of bedding each week, plus 2 lots of adult clothes both smart work and normal casual clothes, our bedding and all the towels and kitchen linens, my whole house would look like a chinese laundry. I don't actually think we have enough radiator space to dry all that every week.

However, I do prefer line drying. The dryer is used a lot in winter, especially for bedding and towels. But if it's dry outside, the washing gets pegged out.

I dry on a rack quite a lot and have a dehumidifier going in the room.

Towels- get all hard and dry if you either put them on the line
or dry them indoors.
A t drier however leaves them all soft and luxurious but keep
an eye on the temperature.

I had my tumble dryer on yesterday. It gets used for most things because of the damp, the convenience, the soft feel of things when they are tumbled, the lack of ironing required.
I only air dry things that can't be tumbled.

I always tumble dry because I live next to the sea and every time I hang laundry out gulls use it as a toilet

I have one too. It doesn't cause mould or condensation as long as the room it's in is ventilated with an open window.

I think a tumble drier is an indispensable bit of kit! I do dry on an airer (not radiators) indoors, but only when clothes have been spun hard and then tumbled in order to partially dry them and to reduce creasing. Most children's clothes are fine not ironed if they are washed, tumbled and then hung to dry on hangers overnight.