Tiny house - where to hang laundry?

[BabCNesbitt]

We’re in a tiny terraced house with almost no space to hang laundry. In this weather we can hang outside, but that’s obviously not ideal all year round. No extra floor space in the kitchen, living room or landing, and so the only space for the necessary two airers is in our bedroom, with a dehumidifier running. I’m a bit sick of looking at clothes hanging up to dry when I’m lying in bed, though - it doesn’t exactly make for a welcoming, restful atmosphere! Any other ideas (other than a tumble dryer - again, no space!)

Can you get one of those racks that you lower from the ceiling, then raise back up ((sorry, I can’t remember the name!) or do you have a bath/shower they can stand in?)

OK I’m probably suggesting things you’ve all already ruled out or aren’t applicable but here goes just incase.

Over bath airer
Airing cupboard
Sheila maid over the stair well
Dri buddy
Tumble drier
Covered outdoor washing line.

Oh

Radiator airers
Banister

You need a tighter laundry rack that fits more stuff on it.

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We do two things that seem to help:

1. rewear things if they’re not dirty dirty
2. do a small wash every day. When I’m super organised this means I do laundry every day Mon-Thur/Fri and clear it all away so the house looks nice at the weekend.

This is ideal and dries quickly.

Drying shed?
Over bath airer?
Airer that hooks onto a radiator?
Ceiling airer?

Hang things on hangers from curtain poles at open windows to air them out rather than washing if they’re very not very dirty just need a refresh.

Ceiling airer is the best thing we've bought. Use it every day and washing dries so quickly!

Change your washing machine to a washer dryer - I have one and use it in the winter.
Unless it is actually raining, I hang clothes outside all year around. In the winter when it is chilly or damp, they won't get completely dry but it means they only need a short blast in the dryer, so I save money & the environment!
A drying rack over the bath works well, as usually bathrooms have additional air venting, to help suck out the moisture.
Do you have any kind of cupboard around your hot tank / boiler that you could put stuff in?

Boiler is in a small cupboard in the kitchen, and no space for an airing cupboard, alas. The Mindy airer holds lots, but it doesn’t solve the problem of staring at wet laundry in the bedroom!

Those pulley airers look good. Do you need to get a joiner to install them? I’d be concerned about them pulling the ceiling in with the amount of stuff we hang up!

@MumOfTwoMasterOfNone I’m probably being clueless, but what’s a drying shed? Is it actually a shed for the garden that’s just for drying clothes?

Do you have a shed or storage in the garden? I had a flat with a small terrace once and had a tumble dryer in a small storage unit on the terrace.

@BabCNesbitt yes, with gaps in the wood for air circulation.

Google 'covered outdoor washing line' as suggested above. There are a few ideas there and it would be so handy to be able to hang clothes out all year round.

If you have room for two airers in your bedroom you have room for a condenser tumble dryer in there.

The airers sit in front of the radiator - I’d have to move the radiator and put in a plug socket on that side of the room.

Thinking the tall Minky airer might be the way to go - will need to get the tape measure out!

drying shed?

Lakeland have heated airers.

A heated airer, washing in morning and it should be dry by the evening.

Also, when we struggled with space years ago I started mixing towels/bedding with clothes. So the towels/bedding went over the doors/ banisters and the clothes would be on a small airer. Once dry, another load in the same way.

The Minky airer takes 74cm by 74cm floor space.

You’ve said you’re a terrace. Do you have a passage? If so is it on your inside or outside wall?

I’m an end terrace & don’t have one but ndn, despite also being an end still has a passage on her inside wall, she has a long line along the wall & her washing drys over night . Could this be an option for you?

I have one of those ceiling mounted driers.. they're great. Ours is over the stairwell.

When we lived in a flat I used to load up the washing machine and turn it on every evening. Then, after dinner when we didn't need to be in the kitchen anymore, I would set up the airer in the kitchen and load up the clothes. First thing in the morning I would put all the clothes in a laundry basket and collapse the airer. We had a naturally warm kitchen though so everything was always dry in the morning, I would have struggled if the kitchen had been cold so that things took a long time to dry.

you could get a condenser tumble dryer - I know you said no space but it could go anywhere not necessarily the kitchn as does not need an outlet for the water vapour (collected in a drawer that's emptied out instead)

we've got a pulley airer over the stairs so it hoists up high (depends on the layout of your stairs of course. they need screwing in to the joists, we used a cable detector to find out where the plaster board was nailed on thus finding the joists