Please help me stop DH from putting the heating on

[SentientCushion]

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'.

What would drying clothes smell of?

It's not like you'd be leaving piles of wet clothes to get mouldy

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

The OP has one. What did he think it was for?

I hate just leaving wet clothes to dry in the house. They end up smelling like wet dogs.

I hate just leaving wet clothes to dry in the house. They end up smelling like wet dogs. That only happens in the Wintertime if you hang them badly on the clothes horse like my son does

Is he lacking basic knowledge? How can he think leaving clothes in the house they WON'T dry? Does he think they'll stay wet forever?

I think he thinks if he threatens to put the heating on then I'll 'show him' how to do it and then I'll have done the washing.

Instead of 'showing him' I'm asking you guys for tips so he can do it his bloody self

Anyway, if you've got the same sort of thundery shower weather as us, it may well have stopped by now. I do have a tumble dryer so don't have too much to air dry - wetsuits are the main one, in season - I hang them on a clothes horse and simply carry the whole thing inside if it starts to rain. Maybe you could do that now with the larger items rather than repegging?

Obviously when I said 'you' I meant he can carry the laden clotheshorse in and out, clearly a 'boy' job despite the fact a small woman can do it easily

I could not stand all this ridiculousness over laundry. The drying of and manners regarding it are all over MN all the bloody time. It seems to cause rows between couples and with neighbours.

Get a bloody tumble dryer. Life is much easier.

Like I've said we don't have anywhere to put a tumble dryer or we'd have one.

The problem I have is it's too hot for the dryer and the cats keep pulling the clothes off the clothes horse and then killing them. Had to think of the horses in the end and stop the cruelty being inflicted on them.

We use a Minky Tower Airer and a dehumidifier. The tower design takes up less room than a conventional airer and the dehumidifier removes the excess moisture from the air.

For our first few years in this house we didn't have ANY heating (unless we laid and lit a fire) but my washing still dried on a clothes horse and a 'Sheila' hanging from the kitchen ceiling.

Now we do have heating but it only comes on if the temp drops below 17.5 and then only mornings and evenings (we don't like being hot) but I have no problems dring clothes indoors!

Your DH is an idiot if he really thinks whacking the heating on at this time of year is a good idea!