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Please help me stop DH from putting the heating on

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SentientCushion · 27/05/2017 13:41

My DH is in charge of doing the washing and he flat out refuses to believe that there is a way of drying clothes in the house without putting the heating on. It's just started to rain and in he comes with the washing to put on the radiators and whack on the heating.
It's so hot, I can't cope. Please save us from melting to death and tell me your clothes drying tips.

We have a clothes horse but DH 'doesn't believe in it'.

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Monstamio · 27/05/2017 13:45

It's plenty warm enough today for clothes to dry! Can you just prove it to him by sticking ithe laundry on the clothes horse? If he really won't have it, perhaps invest in one of those Lakeland heated airers. Then at least you won't be wasting quite so much energy.

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SentientCushion · 27/05/2017 13:48

he's squawking about how leaving them to dry on a clothes horse will make the house smell Hmm

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Puffpaw · 27/05/2017 13:49

If you are heating the whole house just to dry clothes you might as well get a tumble dryer!

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SentientCushion · 27/05/2017 13:50

we've nowhere to put one or we'd have one

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sonlypuppyfat · 27/05/2017 13:51

How people manage without a tumble dryer is beyond me it must be like living at Widow Twankies

Floralnomad · 27/05/2017 13:52

If you have patio doors with a curtain rail use that to hang stuff to dry , I do this all year with anything that doesn't tumble dry - I very rarely use the outside line and then only for sheets / duvets etc . My house is well heated at appropriate times but obviously not when it's boiling outside ( we have fans going all round the place today ) .

gamerchick · 27/05/2017 13:52

If you are heating the whole house just to dry clothes you might as well get a tumble dryer!

Yep^

Why don't you turn the heating off and put it on the airers OP? Hearings no good this time of year.

SleightOfHand · 27/05/2017 13:52

I agree, may as well get a tumble dryer. Or maybe make a covered drying area if your gardens big enough.

3luckystars · 27/05/2017 13:54

Just turn them off and prove it can be done. Conduct an experiment.

SleightOfHand · 27/05/2017 13:55

Have you got those individual radiator controls on each radiator, no need for every radiator to be on at least.

Bloomed · 27/05/2017 13:55

Crikey am overheated with all the windows open. LTB!

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SentientCushion · 27/05/2017 13:55

he's agreed to conduct an experiment

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Viserion · 27/05/2017 13:57

How people manage without a tumble dryer is beyond me it must be like living at Widow Twankies

With an airer above the washing machine in a utility room and a separate clothes horse for the overspill. Haven't had a tumble dryer in years, including when I had cloth nappies to dry. It really isn't hard to manage and much more environmentally friendly.

PurpleChai · 27/05/2017 13:57

Tumble dryer or Lakeland heated airer if you can't peg out clothes!

NotAPuffin · 27/05/2017 13:58

How can he not believe in a clothes horse? I could see how he could have trouble with a clothes unicorn but clothes horses are utterly factual.

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SentientCushion · 27/05/2017 14:01

I half think it was a plot to get me to take over doing the washing if I'm honest.

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dementedpixie · 27/05/2017 14:04

I don't have a tumble drier either but have 2 clothes airers in a spare bedroom. It's hot inside so clothes will dry just fine without any extra heating

mistermagpie · 27/05/2017 14:16

I don't like tumble drying clothes, I think it ruins them. We can only fit in a washer dryer though so it might just be that my dryer is crap... Anyway I dry stuff outside when it's dry or use a Lakeland heated airer thing when it's not. I hate seeing washing all over radiators, it just looks so untidy.

SleightOfHand · 27/05/2017 14:16

I half think it was a plot to get me to take over doing the washing if I'm honest. Yes, I know about this, awful isn't it.

Hidingtonothing · 27/05/2017 14:26

I use a combo of tumble dryer, indoor airers and occasionally the outside line. House never smells (except of clean washing!) no damp issues, I have wet stuff on the airer now which is drying quickly (it's warm and muggy here today) despite having no heating on. Your DH is clearly batshit OP Grin

Bumply · 27/05/2017 14:30

I dry things indoors with a clothes rack and a dehumidifier

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SentientCushion · 27/05/2017 14:32

He is hiding I usually just let him get on with it but I've had to put my foot down today or I'd end up ltb I'm so hot.

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ErrolTheDragon · 27/05/2017 14:33

Send him out to a launderette to dry the large stuff?

SnickersWasAHorse · 27/05/2017 14:34

He doesn't believe in clothes horses?

They are real! You can buy them in shops. Nowt existential about a clothes horse.

MusicToMyEars800 · 27/05/2017 14:34

I live in a flat I put all the wet washing on the clothes horses, keep all the windows open and put the wet clothes by the windows, my flat does not smell of anything other than clean washing.