How do you manage to get all your clothes dry??????????????

[Nemoinapeartree]

tumble dryer broke last sat. I usually wash about 1-2loads a day including cloth nappies. The washing is taking 48hrs or so to dry on the huge maiden so what am I doing wrong. The washing is now backing up in the basket and I am unable to wash anymore as have nowhere for it to go.

We don't use cloth nappies but also don't have a tumble drier. Probably do about 3 washing loads a week and we've got a fab wooden airer hanging from the ceiling above the radiator in our bathroom. We hang the grown up clothes on hangers from it and everything else hangs on it - it easily does 1 washing load and most things dry overnight - and you don't have to iron anything!! Well worth getting one put in if you're going to be tumble drier-less for a while.

if you have space, then put the oven on low and and put the clothers airer in front of it, or lay a towel across the top of your oven and layer clothes on top. I also hang clothes on hangers on curtain rails above radiators, it doesnt look very nice but it gets the clothes dry. hope this helps

Radiators, door frames, the cot when DS isnt in it, anything that you can hang clothes on...hang them!!!! .... My house is like some grotto when the washing gets on top of us.... oh to have a tumble dryer!

inside line airers get an extra one just for nappies, place next to radiator which you can also load.
You'd be amazed at what weather you can line dry in

I have those things that hook onto the radiators on all our suitable radiators ( 4 of them ). They have 2 or 3 rungs on them depending on the type. I also have 2 collapsable clothes horses. One in my bedroom and one on the upstairs landing. I have a washer/dryer but only use the dryer if something needs to be dry quickly, like coats bedding or dd/ds comfort toys. I have one of the radiator things in the airing cupboard too. Thats good for things that take longer to dry, eg jeans. I wish we had a utility room for all my washing.

We do have a utility room but it is minute and useless for drying stuff in. We have a small airer that pulls out from the wall in the utility room, this is useful for kids clothes, underwear etc. I also usually hang a shirt/caridgan/coat over the ironing board which lives on the wall above the radiator in the utility room. I then have a collapsible airer in the room we use as an office. Also the absolute best place for drying in our house is over the banisters - we have a long landing with banisters along and round the corner. This looks scruffy so I tend to only use it for towels and bedding (would be ideal for nappies) but find if I put them out in the evening when the kids have gone to bed they are dry by morning. And I can dry DS's (fairly thin) bedding in about 3 hours.

Have tumble drier, but tend not to use it have a spare room and a couple of airers which dry's overnight and the the towels and sheets over the bannister.

When the heating's on, I take advantage and drape stuff all around the house to dry (I do have a tumble drier btw, but only use it in dire emergencies) because it's a waste of hot air not to! And I worry about the environment.

I have those radiator airers too and I hang the children's tops on hangers and hang the hangers on the bottom rail of those to maximise space. As we speak I've got 12 tops drying on the two radiator hangers in my hallway plus knix and socks directly on the radiator above, and pyjama bottoms, etc drying on the standy-up airer thingy in the kitchen (just pop it outside the back door when I'm cooking).

I don't care how it looks to other people when they come round if our washing is drying all over the place. I can't get over the idea that tumble drying is sinful when the house is warm enough to get the washing dry. And it's mostly Mums who come over anyway, and their houses look exactly the same ...

i have just bought a brill airer from lakeland it was quite dear but well worth it it can fold falt neatly against the wall or you can just use half of it or all of it - with 5 of us i still dont ever run out of room
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we have a big airer that we stand next to the bathroom radiator

and we have it up at full when the heating is on (usually about half of the day)

takes round about 24 hours for stuff to dry

we do a load a day usually but as for nappies I only use prefolds so they dry quite quick

thanks all..seems am doing what I should be..lol I use the radiators for the nappies as they need to dry quicker. Have bored a second maiden from mil so that is now in the bath full of clothes. The other maiden is in the dining room of the through dining/living room. Our house is not very big at all so finding it hard to find places to put stuff and we already look like a laundry. Also DS[3] and DD[11mths] think the big one in dining room is some sort of tent and keep pulling the clothes off it.

If your house is the right shape, hang a maiden from the ceiling above the stairs - it's one of the hottest places in the house. you can then pull it up out of the way and down again to access the clothes from the banisters.
I have a great pair of concertina airers that pull out from the wall in my kitchen. I think Kleeneze do a white plasticy version, Innovations have stopped doing the stainless steel ones like mine.

Now the weather's colder my washing is perminantly on the radiators. Heating on morning and evening for an hour or so each. Wash one load at 1pm get on radiators for blast before bed by which time it should be dry. Wash another load (ticker stuff/harder to dry) and swap stuff onto radiators so gets remains of taht heat and the morning heat. ...Repeat! and on and on infinitum

annoying fecking clothes horses everywhere that ds1, 16m, pulls all the clothes off of and puts them back in the machine! lol
i have 2 that fit on the bath- very useful in tiny house, bathroom very warm too.
i put a load of tots bots on them last night and also on horse in lounge and they were nearly dry this morning! was 'ed!

Is it out of the question for you to take large items like sheets, towels etc to the laundrette to be service washed and dried? Might take the pressure off the rads until your dryer is fixed.

I have no tumble dryer at the mo as am in temp accom. I don't have the space to dry everything so take 3 huge bags (weekly wash for 3 persons inc linens) to laundrette once a week. Usually costs about £25.

Would obv be a lot less if you were just doing sheets and towels.

maybe our house is not warm enough???????????? It is taking at least 2 days at a time to dry one load of washing and it is getting ridiculous..do you all have your heatin on permanatly?????????Ours is on morning 6-9am then 4-11pm maybe it isnt high enough or something??

there is no way I have money to spend out in one go on going to laundrette plus
i have no idea where there is one around here

only 1 or 2 loads a day with cloth?! how do i have so much washing then?

i have a huge clothes horse in the hall in front of the radiator, another rack inthe living room in front of a rad and some stuff in the hotpress. when i'm falling behind theres usually piles of wet washing on the kitchen table and if it's half decent the big airer is outside.

HTH

and my heating is only on 20 degress for an hour and a half three times a day so no more thanyours, takes heavy nappies 2 days, everything else one day

In that case... I used to hang the sheets and towels down the banisters. They "catch" on each other whilst wet and you know they're read for the airing cupboard when they slide to the bottom. Seems to be a lot of airflow on the stairs too. I always had an airer at the top of the stairs too.

I don't think it's just heat that dries them, in answer to "isn't my house hot enough". There has to be a flow of dry air. If you house is boiling, but humid (perhaps from 3 loads of washing hanging about???) then you'll get nothing dry. Open a few windows if you can.

Clothes racks next to the aga is the answer

I hang some in the airing cupboard. Often wonder if I should?

You're all just doing too much washing! See the 'How many laundry loads' thread

I hang stuff on hangers on a clothes rail in front of radiator in our bedroom. Takes about 12 ish hours to dry, including jeans, but every time I go in there I feel all washing turn it round etc to maximise use of warm air!! I know I do too much washing, at least 1 load per day if not 2!!! Have washer/drier but only use for towels/bedding, as takes too long!! And cant wash if drying!!

We have a ceiling airer in our utility room which was very useful when we were using cloth nappies. It came from B& Q and has 5 lines on it. If you don't have a utility room maybe you could put one in another warm place such as the kitchen or bathroom, Victorian style? My mother hangs sheets over the tops of doors. Clothes can be put on hangers and hung over door knobs, wardrobe doors, shower rail, even picture rails or dado rails if you have them. They might not even need ironing!
Also, does everything that goes into your machine really need washing? Can some things be worn again? I find that my 2 year old's clothes, if only slightly wee'd on, can be hung on the line and worn again, surprisingly they don't even smell! Shirts can sometimes be worn for 2 days, except in hot weather, obviously!