Drying clothes in -3

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Hello

My dryer has broken and i have to wait for new parts. So my question is how do i dry clothes when it is -3 outside? Will the clothes dry?

I have a clothes horse but its small and i have a lot of washing to do. I have no idea how to dry it all

Any tips or help greatfully welcome

do you have a laundrett nearby?

they have giant dryers that will take much more than a normal domestic ones

I use a big airer with a dehumidifier next to it and the radiator turned on it takes about a day to dry a load

a day :(

I hang clothes over door frames, on hangers... Over the bannister... On curtain poles... Whack the heating on and voila! Heat rises so I keep it upstairs all crowded and stay downstairs until I think it's dry-that way it doesn't annoy me too much!

We have a dryer but I'm trying desperately not to use it as I'd rather have the heating on!

if it is windy and not raining, clothes will dry outside. If it is really cold and still the water freezes on the clothes, and then you can shake a lot of it off, eskimo-style!

if it is still and damp, or raining, no.

I put a load out on line as it was dry and windy but -1 and they dried :)

I also put some on maid, in airing cupboard and on the radiators and on hangers in doorway and turned heating up on full

I can report the clothes on radiator bried the fastest in an hour :)

Clothes on maid took the longest.

I have a 3 year old with s&d and a one year old muck magnet.

Not looking forward to tomoro I want my drier fixed.

I have two clothes airers open the windows upstairs airers are on landing I can dry 2 loads a day on them.

Bedding goes over the banister and dries in a day

there's a lot to be said for a tumble drier

a modern vented one uses about 60p worth of electricity to dry a full load of 7 or 8 kg of cotton, and about 30p for a smaller or synthetic load

some of the better condensors use less, but they cost significantly more to buy. The really economical ones use one-third the electricity, but cost three times as much to buy, which rather defeats the idea of economy.

Btw wet washing draped around the house or on radiators is the main cause of condensation, damp and mould in UK homes.

If you don't use a washing line or a tumbler, I'm sure a closed room with a dehumidifier will keep the damp down.

Another cheap way is to hang it over the bath with the door and window shut and an effective extractor fan running.

A bathroom extractor runs for about 50 hours on 1kWh of electricity (currently 14p)