Where do you hang your towels to dry?

[BeerBaby]

I can't get ours dry. On days we've got no heating but it's not warm outside our towels don't dry well. I don't have towel radiators or an airing cupboard. Our bathrooms are small. Ideas please 😁

Over the banisters? On the back of a kitchen chair? Draped over a clothes horse/whatever you use to dry your usual laundry?

I really hate soggy towels. We do have heated towel rails but DH fondly imagines that they have magical powers to dry wet towels even when switched off () and it drives me mad!

Funny, I've just got a towel wash on now, was sunny when I put it on, now the clouds are gathering. If I can't get them outside, I'll put some on the clothes horse in the kitchen and some on a couple of airers I have on the top of the stairs banisters.

Over my shower cubicle. Usually dry within a day.

We dont have the space for any of these options I'm afraid as they are always loaded with washing. We've had a towel rack fitted to the wall above the radiator using self drill plasterboard fixings and it's worked loose twice in 18months because of the weight and amount of use. I need another option. Over the door dryer might work but it would band into the shower screen everytime the door opens. Don't have a banister due to house design. It's a real problem!

That's bang, not band

That's bang, not band

Regarding the fittings in plasterboard coming off. I've had this with curtain rails in the past. If you are able to fit a length of wood to the wall first, then fix the clothes rail into that piece of wood, makes for a much sturdy fixing.

We have a dehumidifier, so they go in the spare room with that, over an airer. We bought it due to damp in our last (rented) house, but it's brilliant.

I think that's going to be my only option. I'm looking for battens in the wall but it's a dot and dab internal wall and I can't determine what's wood and what's not. I wonder if I put a batten onto the wood of the door surround then fixed the rack to that would it hold?

One of my best drying places was when we had a garage housing the boiler - previous owners had added places for hanging, and it was even better with the doors left open for air circulation. Otherwise, it's surprising where you can add a temporary drying line.

Our boiler doesn't produce any heat. Otherwise I'd use the cupboard it's in. I miss my drying cupboard.

We have a couple of these airers that hang on radiators (if you have this type if radiator)

How about a ceiling airier? It sounds like it would fit with the era of your house, too.

www.lakeland.co.uk/25214/Modern-Extendable-Ceiling-Airer

I think I can picture it. I'm not sure it would hold on the door frame, unless you fixed that part of the frame more securely with raw plugs and screws. How many towels does the rail hold?

I use my dryer for towels so they come out fluffy. I find they don't dry as nice naturally, god knows why!

If I run out of room on the airing rack for other things (bedding etc) I hang them over doors.
If I don't use the dryer I use the radiators for towels

I have two small over the door hooks over the shower screen and then hang on there.

Re the towel rail get some proper plasterboard fixings. We have dot and dad and things stay put.

Outside still. Towels will still dry outside in a couple of hours at the moment slightly longer in December January but the will still dry. They are one of the few things I dry outside all year round as I really don't like them done in the drier.

Put a clothes horse up and pop it in the shower/bath tub. Water drips into bathtub/shower tub. Shut the door and turn the extractor fan on or open the window to let moisture out to prevent damp issues.

I hate drying clothes on radiators/over banisters etc so this works quite well for me :)

Each one in a different bedroom, on backs of doors or slung over doors. Or put the heating on for an hour.

However this does distribute the water vapour all over the house so you need to air the rooms well too.

one of those ~deluxe heated airers from lakeland? for clean towels they either tumble dry or hang in the line. for in use towels they end up over doors mostly. our new house does have a hot towel rack though swoo