How do you dry washing in winter?

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How do you all dry washing at this time of year?

We generate a lot of laundry. We are a family of 5, including three kids aged 5 and under - they go through at least one full outfit a day, often more for the toddler (wee accidents) and baby (food mess/sick). And that’s before all the extra bits - waterproofs from forests school, PE kit, swimming things, etc. Plus household laundry - towels, bedding x4 beds, tea towels, cloths and ad hoc things that are subject to messes of one kind or another - playmat, toddler’s duvet....

Long story short, I do about two loads of laundry per day. Sometimes more. In the summer it’s fine because I can line dry everything, but this time of year I’m really struggling. I tumble dry what I can, but we have quite a lot of stuff that can’t be tumble dried. I’ve tried line drying and it spent a day in the sun just to be cold and wet still at the end of the day! I’ve got a clothes airer indoors, but things aren’t drying quickly enough on it and getting that musty/mouldy smell, which just increases the laundry pile as they need to be washed again!

Is the only solution to have the heating on high so they dry quicker? Or do I have to buy one of those heated airer things MN loves?

I use the drier. And if stuff can’t be tumbled I have radiator bars and put a gate style airier right next to the radiator.

We have to mKe do with clothes airer and hanging on doors and radiators. We don’t have a tumble drier.

I have a backlog as I can only do one load a day as it’s taking 24 hours to dry.

I have a system so what can be tumbled goes in the drier, and then I have a big heated towel rail in the bathroom that other stuff goes on. Anything that can be hung goes on a hanger over the shower which is next to the towel rail so dries quickly.

If I've run out of space for hanging / towel rail I'll make sure the next was is only stuff that can be tumbled.

Everything that can be tumble dried gets tumble dried. Everything else I put on an large airer in the spare room in front of the radiator. Dries really quickly but our house retains heat.

DM has one of those heated airers from Lakeland. Used with the cover they are really good. That could be an option?

I do an extra spin after the cycle has ended it's amazing how much more water is removed.
Our downstairs loo is the warmest room so I stick the airer in there with the extractor fan running.
All towels, betting, underwear gets thrown in the drier
Heater aired were recommended on This Morning during the week but I've not had to try that yet

Oh and for big stuff - bedding / towels I wash them here and then they go in the industrial dryer at the laundrette

I hang stuff on coat hangers in the window, classy.

I have a dryer. It takes a while (next time I'd get a big American one - huge capacity and so much quicker). And I most buy clothes that can go in (and ones that don't need ironing).

A mixture of a tumble dryer/washer dryer and also a heated drying rack with dehumidifier.

Outside on dry breezy days, otherwise above the Aga on a Sheila maid. Bedding and towels go to a laundry.

We have a dehumidifier, it literally sucks the moisture out of wasting. Also use radiators & one if the airers which hangs on a radiator when we have a lot.
If it's dry & sunny we still out bedding & towels outside & they mostly dry

I tumble dry what I can and everything else goes on the heated airer. It was quite expensive (Lakeland) but well worth the investment. Our house is very cold, and damp washing just ends up smelly and doesn't dry without it.

At work we have one of those pulley type airers - it fits loads of clothes on it and they dry fairly quickly (maybe because hot air rises??), plus it's out of the way and not taking up floorspace.

We dry ours on a clothes horse next to a dehumidifier. It's quicker than you'd think and cheap on the electric.

Heated airer with a dehumidifier running underneath the and the window open. I don’t have a tumble dryer. If it’s breezy and dry I’ll peg it out on the line.

I don't have a tumbledryer, I hang all my stuff from door frames on hangers in the evening and they are dry by morning but then I live alone.
I take any big loads like sheets and duvets down to the laundrette to dry.
I'd get one of those covered dryers from Lakeland if there are 5 of you.

The only thing about a Sheila maid above the aga is that if you’re even just browning / cooking food before it goes in the ovens and even if you have high ceilings - the stuff smells of kitchen and other people will notice (even if they never tell you)

Tumble dry underwear and towels, rest on clothes maid in front of AGA with sheets hung over doors. Looks awful but I guess one good thing about lockdown is no visitors.

I only have a washer dryer it dries basics but not volume drying. Have airer in the kitchen and keep windows open on vent to allow condensation to escape

I have a heated airer. It works quite well if things are well spread out on it (so laid flat on bars rather than hanging down), so can't take much more than a full load. I can do a load a day like that but think I would struggle getting more dry. We don't really have room for a tumble dryer unfortunately.

We have a dehumidifier. It helps that we have a spare bedroom so I hang it on airers in there, put the dehumidifier on and shut the door so it’s not trying to dehumidify the whole house. It dries a load of towels in a few hours.

Doing an extra spin is also worth it. Especially if it’s bedding or towels. Spin half a load at a time for greatest effect.

We have a utility room with indoor washing lines (one of those that you pull out with 4 lines on). That will dry a load overnight - except thick hoodies. Towels get tumbled at this time of year, bedding gets dried outside as much as possible and finished in the tumble.
If I get a real backlog towels and bedding and anything else big, thick and tumble dry able gets taken to the launderette- we do that after camping trips too!

I tumble dry what I can.

The rest goes on hangers on the curtain rail in the front window above the radiator, or on a drying rack in front of the radiator.

I don't know what my grandmother would think the neighbors would say - but it dries pretty efficiently.

Washing machine spin at 1400 rpm, and washing at 60 where possible for a bit of residual warmth also seem to help a bit.

Iron clothes straight away, then they don't have to be perfectly dry.

I don't have s tumble dryer.

I have a line in the attic where stuff dries quickly (pretty drafty up there).
I also have a lakeland heated aired but I only switch it on if I need something dry quicker.

running an extra spin cycle at the end of a wash makes a huge difference in drying time.

We were both fed up with clothes drying in the house so my husband converted part of the garage into a laundry room so it had a washing machine and drier, with a ceiling pulley thing that you can hang clothes on. He found a wall mounted heater that's as cheap as the drier to run so anything non tumble drier proof can be hung on hangers on there. Also just about room for an airer in there too if we get a backlog. It's been a game changer - no more washing in the house and well worth sacrificing the space to it.