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how do you dry towels in the summer

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Purplehonesty · 15/07/2016 22:03

Our household is about to go from 4 to 6 as some relatives are moving in for a good while

Every bathroom we have has heated towel rails and so in the winter the towels dry nicely when the ch is on.

What do people do in the summer tho? I don't have enough clothes airers to hang them on if I want to dry washing for 6 people (and it keeps fexking raining)

So what else?! I don't want to be washing each towel every time it's used you see....!

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KP86 · 15/07/2016 22:05

Towel rails, over the top of doors, over the glass panel in the shower. Anywhere that will take a towel, really!

Idontknowwhoiam · 15/07/2016 22:07

I've been putting the heating on for an hour the last 2 weeks...
I've cracked a window but it's taking days for clothes to dry on the airer and they smell again but the time they dry!
It's got to be cheaper than rewashing amd using the tumble drier for 3 hours at a time!

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Purplehonesty · 15/07/2016 22:10

Our house gets way too hot if I put the heating on.

Perhaps if I turn off all the radiators except the towel rails and have it come on in the early morning?! Hmm

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Flisspaps · 15/07/2016 22:12

I start them off in the dryer and then hang them over the handrail on the landing.

LakeFlyPie · 15/07/2016 22:16

Hang on washing line

Kbear · 15/07/2016 22:17

hang on line then tumble dry to soften them up for 15 mins or so

BluePitchFork · 15/07/2016 22:18

hooks on the bathroom door. windows open every day for good ventilation.

Iwasbornin1993 · 15/07/2016 22:18

Washing line here too

Floralnomad · 15/07/2016 22:19

Tumble dry all year , but towels are washed after every bath/ shower anyway.

elephantoverthehill · 15/07/2016 22:20

Towels? In the summer? We just run around in the garden naked to dry off!

QuinionsRainbow · 15/07/2016 22:43

Perhaps if I turn off all the radiators except the towel rails and have it come on in the early morning?

That works for us.

CremeEggThief · 15/07/2016 22:46

On the washing line for a couple of hours if it's dry. Or over the shower rail, if it's not, but then they take all day, even with both bathroom windows wide open.

MarklahMarklah · 15/07/2016 22:57

Washing line, then clothes horse. If it's wet then an extra spin (I don't have a drier) and then drape over the bannisters, making sure they all get rotated to stop any damp spots. I have been known to put the heating on to dry things too, even in the summer.

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Purplehonesty · 15/07/2016 23:06

I foresee my house being draped in wet towels....

Right off to set heating to come on in bathrooms only. Why didn't I think of that before?!

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rabbit123 · 16/07/2016 10:49

Washing line and then finish them off in the dryer to make them fluffy.

BluePitchFork · 16/07/2016 10:56

how about getting a Over-Door-Clothes-Airer
or
Heated-Towel-Warmer for your guest's room?

DrHarleenFrancesQuinzel · 16/07/2016 11:59

Same as I do in winter. Tumble dryer

dementedma · 16/07/2016 12:02

Washing line. Clothes horse.

Onlytimewilltell · 18/07/2016 16:27

Do you not have an airing cupboard?
Mine and Dh towels live on the back of the door and kids ones get hung on the shelf slats after a shower and rolled up when dry. Everyone has their own hand towel hung in bathrooms.

how do you dry towels in the summer
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Purplehonesty · 18/07/2016 23:21

No I haven't
Our boiler is in the utility room miles from the shower rooms

Freshly washed towels yes tumble or hang out but it's the ones we've used once then have to try and dry

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Squidgems · 18/07/2016 23:45

Have you thought about using a dehumidifier on the landing near the bathroom or wherever you want to hang your towels. I use one for a couple if hours when having a shower or bath. The one i have is a small one that even has a setting for drying clothes if put in a small room with a clothes airer. It's a Meaco one recommended by Which. It's brilliant and I wish I'd got it many years before.

CaurnieBred · 18/07/2016 23:49

Our bathroom towel rails are dual powered so in summer we switch on the electic element for a couple of hours on the timer

iknowimcoming · 18/07/2016 23:55

It's probably more efficient to put the heating on in the bathrooms just after you've gone to bed imo, as that way the bathroom doors will stay shut and keep the heat in the room until morning when you get up, also means they'll be cool by the morning again which is very handy for this weather. For the future for your own bathroom, unless you want to splash out on all of them, you can look into an electric heating element for the towel heaters for the summer, ours just runs on a basic timer whenever you want it, we just stick it on for an hour or two after we've showered and towels are dry without running the boiler.

WanderingTrolley1 · 18/07/2016 23:55

Tumble dry, like any other time of year.

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Purplehonesty · 19/07/2016 20:34

You can get an electric element for the towel rails??!!

That sounds fab will look into it. Also the heating at bed time is a great idea thank you

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