How to dry clothes in small apartment?

[Whatsthatspookynoise]

I am not allowed to hang clothes on the balcony and I don't have any space for a tumble dryer. I have to use a clothes rack on my bedroom door and a bigger one next to it. It takes about 3 days for the clothes to actually dry even with the doors open (I don't have windows only large glass doors in each room). So as you can imagine I get behind on washing and I'm sick of it being hung up 24/7.

I sometimes point a fan at it to air it, but it doesn't speed it up by much. Looking for some ideas on what to do.

Heated airer plus a dehumidifier.

@ErrolTheDragon

Heated airer plus a dehumidifier.

I use a combo of the 2. Depending on amount of washing, how often central. Heating is on et cetera depends on if I use one or the other or both. Sometimes I just do all my washing on one weekend so I'll get three or four loads on the heated airer and crank the dehumidifier up and just let it run and it all dries overnight.

At the time so might just do one load at a time and just hang on the heat of the year without even turning it on and leave it dry over a day or two. But I dry in the spare room now so it's not as much of an issue. When I lived in a house much smaller flats I would often use both to get it done quickly

@PurpleFrames Didn't know mini dehumidifiers existed, I have now bought one so thanks 👍

The balcony rule, we had that in our previous flat, but it actually meant not hanging stuff over actual balcony rail as it looked unsightly. So a rack that was just on balcony and couldn’t be seen from road was fine. Maybe check what the actual definition is.

We had a rack from amazon that screwed onto wall and retracted back when not in use ‘artweger’ brand I think. You can use them indoors as well if you have somewhere. They take a good amount of weight

Dehumidifier. Meaco DDL8 junior was best buy when I looked about 3 years ago.

I've got one.

Is it your flat? Can you upgrade to a washer dryer?

They get bad press but I'm on my third (due to moving). I've never had an issue with their washing abilities.

You can generally only tumble about 2/3rds of the washing capacity so when I do towels I have to empty half out before putting on the drying cycle.

My current one also doesn't have an anti crease function which keeps moving the clothes around until you remove them which I find really annoying because I hate ironing but otherwise it works fine. It wasn't expensive - £300 (ao.com/product/iwdc65125ukn-indesit-washer-dryer-white-77062-2.aspx).

I only really tumble sheets and bedlinen.