Shit hits the fan

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Argh!!! I had enough! washing chaos! Where do I hide my drying laudry in my house, in the city??
Got a garden so summer we can sort of cope, but not in winter. No utility room obviously, it's been my dream forever (if you have one kindly don't rub it in..) but was not able to afford a house big enough or with a designated area. At most I will be able to install a dryer in a closed cupboard in the bathroom, which will be a massive improvement but I am sure not going to make all the washing disappear, right? There are always the bits and pieces you can't put in the dryer or its too busy.

I don't want to sleep with my drying racks any longer in my age, I am sick of all the washing decorating every radiator, completely out of context and reducing my grown-up interiors to the look of a student flat.
How do I change this? Can't move, not quite enough space to remodel and add a utility.

So what do you do and what options do I have?

I have a Lakeland heated aired that works best with a cover on it. Looks a bit tidier than a normal airer, IMO. Would your dryer in a cupboard be a full height cupboard so you could maybe hang stuff over the dryer too. Sort of like a tiny hanging rack.

Put a wash out first thing in the morning to dry when you are I work, put it away when you get him so you don't need to look at it?

Repeat

Have you considered a service wash at the laundrette so you can get on top of it in winter?

Also dehumidifier dries washing quickly

Hang an old fashioned airer from.the ceiling? We have one and it dries everything so quickly. Looks cool too!

I hate them, but would a washer/dryer help?

I have a pulley in the kitchen! Fits two loads but my children always smell like roast dinners and bacon rolls haha! Works for us!

We have a DriBuddy and it is amazing. It’s a standing heated (blowing out hot air) airer with a cover. You can tuck it away in a room to do its job, and it’s less cumbersome than a drying rack.

You have a garden so you could install a tumble dryer in a garden shed and get an electrician to cable it up. Not a cheap option, but my tumble dryer was sat in our outhouse for a year while I sorted out space for it in the kitchen. Drying washing and tumble dryers indoors is a problem because of condensation. Despite venting in my new utility room, I am still having trouble with mould and moisture from the washing machine and dryer. It isn't always so handy to have these machines inside, especially in smaller properties.

There's 8 of us(youngest is a tiny baby)and we have a condenser dryer and we manage to keep ontop of our laundry by using that when the weathers rubbish.

I stick a load of washing on before I go to bed so when I get up in the morning it can go straight into the tumble dryer and I can get a second load on in the washing machine,within about 3 hours I can get 3 loads washed(including the one from the night before)and dried.

I had a DriBuddi for 5 years and used it continuously in the winter months, especially when my DS was a baby as I used cloth nappies. It was an absolute god send and it broke my heart when it finally gave up. We moved house in July and had space for a tumble drier though, so silver cloud.....