How do you dry sheets and bedding burning winter?

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Just this really, how do you dry sheets and bedding during winter if you don’t have a tumble dryer? Had anyone had success with line drying once winter sets in? I feel bad about not washing ours for ages as there’s just nowhere to dry them. We use a washing rack for the rest of our stuff but it’s always full and stuff takes a long time to dry. Flat is too small to fit another rack. How often do you wash bedding during winter?

We have an indoor line in our utility room, and I also use the bannister at the top of the stairs.

do them about every fortnight / three weeks.

The bedsheet, I hang over a radiator or I put it over the corners of the 4 chairs from our table so it can air out. It also dries pretty well over the maiden.

The duvet cover, I have to fold over and put on the radiator and turn it around a few times so that each folded section gets some time on the radiator.

On days like today, I've put it outside on the washing line. It'll still be slightly damp when I bring it in from the cold but will need finishing off on the radiator.

Duvet cover over the bannisters, fitted sheet over the top of a big clothes airer (it's about as tall as me!)

A few options:

You could just have 4 sets and send 2 of them for a service wash/dry or laundry service once a month.

Replace your current rack with a heated rack to move things along to quicker

Ironing while wet reduces drying time.

Can you put something in the bath/over the bath overnight?

I winter we have a flat sheet between us and the duvet cover. Saves washing the duvet cover every week. That just means the fitted sheet and flat sheet and pillow cases need done weekly. I put them in on a morning and take them out before work. Hang one over the airer next to an open window and we've got a tall radiator that takes the other. Pillow cases are on radiators. Usually all dry at bedtime but I do have a second set if not.

Washing in winter and now not using the tumble dryer takes more planning and keeping on top of the laundry.

I actually discovered last week that our local Morrisons has an outdoor launderette so I think I'll possibly do a bundle of towels or bedding in the dryer there once it's really cold.

Heated air dryer and a dehumidifier

Every week and just on a normal airer.

Out on the line on dry mornings and then on an airer in the kitchen, then iron and folded into the airing cupboard for a few hours.

I change beds once a week during the warmer months, but now fortnightly in winter. If it's not actively raining I always get it out on the line if possible (depends on weather and working patterns though...) and then bring it in to drape over the bannister or an airer.

It's the only time I think longingly about a tumbler drier...

Over a clothes airer with the dehumidifier under it. Dries pretty quickly.

Hang them over doors.

Have a dryer now thankfully but when I didn’t I had 4 sets and when I was down to the last 1 I took the 3 dirty sets to the laundrette for a service wash & dry.

The prevalence of these threads make me wonder how people managed back in the day. I'm certainly used to weekly bedding changes, and for us this is manageable, but it's always been harder during autumn and spring when it's not warm enough to line dry out in a day and the heating isn't on yet. I don't like it but they do get left hanging over doors. That's only doable because it's just the two of us and we have a lot of doors!

Easy to dry outside even in winter, There are plenty of dry breezy days. Keep an eye on the local weather forecast (I use XC) and do the laundry overnight before a likely drying day

Outside every time. They’ll need the whole day but they will be dry. Even better if there’s some wind!

I just wash in it machine at home early on a Saturday morning with a good spin, then take to nearest nice launderette and pop in largest drier available. Get a coffee /run errands or quick walk. Should be dry and foldable in 20-30mins - bonus is no ironing.

Over the bannisters
Never really understood how people who don't live in terraced houses do it 😂

We have a fairly big utility room and I can fit 2 collapsible drying racks in there, it's quite a warm room from the kitchen and the heat from the washing machine etc. If it's cold I put the airers in a room with a window open and the door closed for some air flow. I use the tumble dryer when I have a lot of washing to get through though

Only wash on sunny and/or windy day. Start off outside for as long as worth it, then heated drier.

We never had a tumble drier til this year (replaced washing machine with washer/drier). We wash towels weekly and sheets fortnightly, always hung them in the spare room on an airer, and ran a dehumidifier in there. Bedding dry in 12 hours, towels in 24.

Throw stuff on the radiators. Turn once. Dry in an hour usually.

Duvet cover over the banister and sheet hangs in the door. Pillow cases on airer. Rotate Wash fortnightly for 3 sets of bedding.

I just sling mine on clothes horses in front of the log burner but the other options are:

1. use a spin dryer or an extra spin 2)peg it out
2. iron whilst damp
3. tumble dryer.
4. Airing cupboard Interestingly it costs about the same to dry laundry with a tumble dryer as it does with a dehumidifier. If you have to buy the dehumidifier then the tumbler dryer is the cheaper option. Using a combination of the above options works well.

Women managed in the past because they had open fires which circulate air as well as giving out heat.

I wash and hang out on the line for a few hours (on a day when I'm at home so can go straight out if it starts to rain!) then bring in and hang over doors overnight. Looks really untidy but we don't have a tumble dryer.