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?

Just on a standard laundry rack / over chairs. Iron when damp to help dry

It's a nightmare! We have a drier but I don't tumble dry bedding, find they just get folded up inside each other and don't dry, and most of our bedding says it's not suitable for tumble drying anyway.

We do:

• Draped over radiators and run the heating absolutely loads to dry laundry...
• Draped over doors.
• On airer, and run the dehumidifier
• Draped over bannister

I pick a dry day, though only have Friday to Sunday to choose from now or I'm bringing the washing in in the dark and cold. Line dry then bannister and drying rack. One bed at a time.

One of DS's duvet sets is polycotton and that dries very quickly.

Sheets get washed when it's a dry, ideally breezy, day then out on the line.
DH got all the towels dry today. Well, they are over the banisters right now, but are as good as dry.
Hoping to get sheets done on Sunday.

Sheets get washed when it's a dry, ideally breezy, day then out on the line.
DH got all the towels dry today. Well, they are over the banisters right now, but are as good as dry.
Hoping to get sheets done on Sunday.

Mine are hung up in a cupboard where the water tank is, with a dehumidifier running and the door shut. If it isn't raining I try to get them outside for a bit first.

We both wear pyjamas so we only need to wash bedding every 4 weeks. Pyjamas are easier to wash!

I check the weather and wash on a a dry day. Hang out on the line. It’s rarely completely dry but enough to finish off indoors on an airer for an hour or two. Windy dry days are a bonus.

I spin bedlinen twice to extract as much water as possible and then drape it over the radiator.

www.lakeland.co.uk/24909/dry-soon-deluxe-3-tier-heated-airer
I use this with the cover but I've just got a spinner dryer - it's 2800 spin and it takes out a ridiculous amount of water even after 1400 spin.

Our tumble dryer has broken and we haven’t replaced it. We do have a very small electric radiator in a cupboard on the landing and we can just about fit a clothes airer in there.

It dries clothes overnight but I’m wondering if that is more expensive than a quick tumble dry.

I only wash sheets when the bbc weather app says it’s dry and windy, also I have brushed cotton sheets in the winter and they don’t seem to need washing as much as cotton sheets summer sheets.

If I am drying inside all washing has an extra spin in the machine.
Duvet cover and sheet go over the banisters to dry. A friend hangs some bedding over the doors.

Either over the dining room chairs - usually over back of 3 chairs, or the back of the door. My fleece ones take a couple of days to dry as they are thick, but other sheets don’t take too long. Never had a dryer. If there’s a breeze and it’s dry might hang out still

We have a heated airer just for this reason. Put bedding in before school run, come home take out and hang on heated airer , it's dry before bedtime.

Heated airer, cheap to run and warms the room (slightly). I couldn't be without mine, thoroughly recommend. Bedding goes over the top of everything else and dries nicely in a few hours

Over bannisters now but previously in a tiny flat we used to take it over the road to the laundrette. Huge tumble dryers so only took about half an hour, became part of the weekend routine!

I throw it over an indoor door- and rotate morning and evenings - takes about 2 days to dry but I do love getting in a clean bed 🙈😂
Make sure the top of your door is clean before you do it for the first time !

Double spin ,outside on line if breezy then over radiator to air.

Hang them on the corner of an open door and use the banasters

Do any of you live in the UK? Even before it started to get cold enough to put the heating on our undies weren’t drying within two days never mind trying to stick to dry days to hang outside because we would have so much washing waiting to be done that we run out of line space. Not to mention the lingering damp smell etc

Yes, SW here. Brushed cotton sheets still drying before bedtime if put out on a dry day, brought in at 3ish and heating on at 16 for an hour. We only get a damp smell with towels that don't dry between uses, that should stop now as the heating will be on for an hour or two every evening

Dehumidifier. I wash the bedding in batches, then spread it over tall clothes horses/airers and put the dehumidifier underneath. It’s halved the drying time from 2/3 days to about 1.5 days for a whole load. For clothes it takes about 24 hours to dry.

Change every 2 weeks, sometimes dry outdoors if the weather's dry, but mostly indoors on a airer next to a window which is slightly open (and on the safety catch). Never takes more than 24 hours to dry, generally I leave it drying for the rest of the day, then overnight and then it's dry.