How many loads of washing can you hang to dry at once?

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Just that really.

Was reading the thread a while back where the OP's DH thought he was being helpful by doing back to back washes without a thought for how or where they'd be hung up to dry, and everything ended up sitting wet in the baskets for days and having to be re-washed.

I don't have any outside space to hang anything out, but we do have a cellar/laundry room, so I can easily hang up 2 full loads, and if necessary one more (but the extra airer is then totally in the way and annoys me so I tend not to do that).

I tend to just do it one by one though, so wash a load, quick tumble to get rid of creases and cat hairs, then hang up to dry. Wait until I take that one off before doing the next one.

we have a long wooden pole hanging horizontally from ceiling in the utility room.
Everything that can go on a hanger goes on a hanger and hangs on there.
pants and socks on clothes horse underneath.
Extraction fan makes sure it dries.

So clothes I can hang 4 loads. I can then do sheets/towels which go in tumble dryer.

I have been known to do more, and hang them in rest of house, but try not to do that.

I'm not worrying about it. I'm asking about people's clothes drying capacities because, sadly, this is the sort of thing I'm quite interested in.

@shutthewindownow yes that was exactly my question 😁

2 inside.

3 outside
None inside so I'd have to use the dryer

i just tumble most things, only hang shirts and sweatshirts.

One load. I have a 9kg machine so it's a lot of washing. I have line in the garden it goes right across maybe about 10 metres.

Oh aye I have 2 young kids so it can be a lot of little items too. I lost it tumble dry only started hanging out this week with the sun being out 😃

3 on the line outside, though if lots of socks/underwear I usually run out of space on the sockopus and have to hang them with pegs and then run out of pegs. Inside probably about one but I have a tumble drier so don't often need to.

2 to 3 on the line, about 1 on the heated airer and another 1 on the crappy old wire airer. 9kg machine though.

However I learned the hard way that being enthusiastic with the washing on a sunny day leaves you with a mountain of ironing so I have a strict one load at a time policy. No washing on until the last lot is dried, ironed and put away.

But it is only DH and I these days.

Well it depends obviously on the size of the items. Sheets and towels take up much more room than socks and undies.
I can get 3-4 on the outside line, 1 on the clothes horse and 1-2 on the patio undercover.

Socktopus

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Roughly two loads will fit outside on the line. Inside I use a tumble dryer and do them back to back. One load is usually dry in the time it takes the other to wash. I have an airer for anything I can put in tumbledryer. I prefer to line dry but have to tumble in winter as house is too small to have space for airer drying.