Does anyone else use clothes horses?

[Plinkyplonk]

I'm trying to catch up with laundry & ratherm than use the tumble dryer all the time, I'm using clothes horses.

Just out of curiosity, who else still uses them, and, do you mind your living room/kitchen or where ever you put them smelling and looking like a chinese laundry.

DD2 (5) is sat in front of the washer waiting for the next load to finish so she can put some more on

We have underfloor hearting o I use the floor. Makes the place smell delicious!

Mine is in the kitchen but I try to take it down if we are having people round

we don't have a drier, I have always used a clothes horse (we call it a maiden, is that me being mad?)

lol naily

No F&Z, ours is a maiden, it's a northern thing, I think. Whenever I've lived outside of the NW (most of my adult life) and said 'maiden' people have looked at me like I'm a bit odd

no, maiden is quite valid
we call them airers rather than clothes horses - or maybe airers are the tent-shaped ones and clothes horses the three-fold straight ones?
[boggles]

I think mine was called 'concertina airer' on the pack....

surely they're for airing concertinas?

I have a large clothes horse that I erect in my stepsons' bedroom on the days that they aren't with us. No-one uses their bedroom and bathroom so we don't see the Chinese laundry .

On the days that they are with us I tend not to do laundry as there is more other work, but if I do I put the clothes horse up in my utility room. I don't like having it up there as (a) it takes up a lot of space (b) the utility room is next to the kitchen and I don't want cooking smells to permeate freshly washed clothes.

I tend to tumble dry until the creases are out and then put clothes on hangers or the clothes horse to finish drying in order to cut down on ironing.

Weren't they great for making dens and tents when you were little?

i used to live in grimsby and they were clothes horses. now in north west they are maiden

lol yes happystory
my brother and i wrecked loads of clothes hroses making tents out th e back. poor mum went through about a dozen of them

I have a couple of maidens

They live in the spare bedroom and dry all my washing for me

No need to buy a tumbledrier

Bit of a pita when people come to stay though, I have to tidy it all up

I do (kitchen). Don't have a tumble drier. The clothes dry pretty fast tbh though with winter coming on I'll have to be a bit more organised.

I've just got an overhead pulley as well. Hopefully dh will get round to putting it up some time in the next century.

No but we do have 'winter dykes' which I think is a fab name for them!

np - re: pulleys, I got mine from Lakeland. Also try a company called Pulleymaid (I think it's the same one tbh.)

I have 2, no tumble drier here either. One is in the upstairs play room, one in dd2's attic bedroom.

I've got a big one in the utility room that I dry all clothes on when the weather's not up to drying on the outside line. I only ever tumble bedlinen, nappies and towels, and only when they can't go outside.

We have 3. No tumble dryer, and cloth nappies. One for nappies, and the other two for clothes. They go by the radiators in the hall, dining room, and kitchen, if all 3 are in use. I try and put them away if people are coming round though. The convenience part of my brain might like a tumble dryer, but they are wasteful and expensive, so I'm just a bit more organised than I would otherwise get away with being.

I use one for stuff that shouldn't be tumbled (most of my clothes ). Am currently having very small extension to utility room so that I can put it in there, as I do mind my conservatory constantly looking like a laundry.

we use it, in the conservatory. i do hate it, but don't have/want a tumble dryer, and have no utility room to hide it in, so must put up with it till i do!

I have put mine in the various places, cellar, kitchen, spare bedroom - current;y resides in the playroom which has a door out to the garden so I can put it outside easily if the weather is good....

Am also thinking of getting a smaller one to put in the shower cubicle which we hardly ever use....

We have two airers in our spare bedroom and use them for all our laundry when it isn't warm enough for drying outside on the line - no tumble drier for environmental reasons . Dh also put a high hanging rail across our (very small) utility room so shirts go on hangers in there.

I have one in my room (no spare rooms to put it in) and yes, I do mind it looking like a chinese laundry!