Tumble dry 99% of clothes

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Have tried dehumidifier and air drying etc , often it’s to wet / cold in England to dry outside (though In summer I’d make the effort to). A lot of my t shirts when drying in utility room with dehumidifier don’t look great so today I decided to tumble dry on a gentle setting - short time later they come out like new , smells nice , soft to touch , a lot less creases etc. tempted to have the tumble drier as my goal to for drying going forwards. Has anyone else done this against label advice?

I changed my condenser dryer to a heat pump dryer. It’s amazing, quick and cheap to dry clothes. I put everything in it, except things like football shirts and t
hose with motives Which I put on a heated drysoon airer.

Tumble dry shirts as they come out with fewer creases than line drying.

Everything else goes on the heated airer or the front of the everhot.

Never tumble towels, they feel horrible and don't absorb properly.

I tumble everything that won’t shrink, but mainly line dry in summer months. This time of year I’ll either hang stuff outside or drape on radiators to par-dry, then ten minutes in the tumble to get them crease free.

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I do tumble dry things but this Drying Pod is really good . Hang things in coat hangers and it cuts down on creases . Mine is by a window so the steam can escape .

When I clean the fluff filter in the dryer I think that's my clothes , I know its towels./sheets too .

Of course many people do, but modern heat pumps use very little energy, unlike old technology.

In my case I have solar panels too and still generate excess electricity that I export to the grid. I also don't need to use an energy hungry iron if tumble drying.

I line dry sometimes, but only if running lots of loads, as the clothes still need to go into the dryer afterwards to remove most of the pollen which affects my family through hayfever.

Where I live there is hardly any wind. Much as I like line drying, it is pointless in the winter. There are now just the 2 of us at home. I just tumble dry sheets, towels and underwear. Any clothes get hung up on hangers, in the hallway upstairs. Our house is warm and they usually dry in about 8 hours. I do not have a utility room. I think I must be one of only a few people who don’t.

I tumble dry everything unless it's a nice day when I put on the outside washing line I have a heat pump dryer so no shrinkage and cheap to run

Summer I line dry and finish thick seams in tumble for 20 mins.

Winter, I hang on airer in garage for 24 hours then in the tumble to finish to bone dry.

Don't ever put anything away not bone dry as I've found mildew forming.

I tumble dry 99% of stuff. Life's too short to faff with fussy, high maintainence clothes.

It takes a very rare, bright, breezy day for any productive drying on the washing line.
I gave it an attempt the other day... I was halfway through when some un-forecast rain started up and I had to take it all off straight away.

In summer I hang out the washing at every opportunity! But in winter, absolutely everything goes in the tumble dryer. And I've never shrunk anything yet! We do need a new dryer though; for some reason we, nor our go to repairman can work out why it's now leaving immovable black streaks on some light fabrics!

I used to wonder why so many of my friends would stress over laundry then I realised they didn't just stick it all in the drier so had it drying all over the house and had to plan the washes so there was enough room to dry it and they had the appropriate clean clothes.

I used to stick everything in the drier. Now it's everything other than decent tops because they do shrink.

I'd love too but I shrink stuff. I have a special skill for shrinking DHs new t shirts.

Socks seem to shrink too.

Tumble dry towels, bedding and pants and some t shirts and nightwear and cheap stuff I don't mind if it shrinks.

I hate drying laundry! To fine in the summer -Love the days when a full
Load takes 1 hour!

I put a load on and it in the spare room with the dehumidifier spread over three airer and hanging rail.

Years ago, tumble driers got very hot and dried washing spun at 1000 quickly. Just about everything would shrink, but I didn't care - I was washing for seven people and just bought things bigger.

Now I have a tumble drier that doesn't shrink everything, but it takes hours and costs too much to run. I've always line dried April -October, but now I use an airer and dehumidifier in the winter. Because I WFH, I can load airer before work and then shift it around at lunchtime. By the evening, it's dry. This time of year, radiators are usually on at some point in the evening, and anything that won't be ironed can have half an hour on the radiator to get it cupboard dry.

It's become yet another job I have to do myself to get it done properly. Other people in the house just put everything on the airer with no thought or reason and leave it there. They invariably overload it, so that although it dries eventually, it takes ages and needs ironing. Bit of shifting and folding makes it much quicker and more efficient.

It's become yet another job I have to do myself to get it done properly. Other people in the house just put everything on the airer with no thought or reason and leave it there. They invariably overload it, so that although it dries eventually, it takes ages and needs ironing. Bit of shifting and folding makes it much quicker and more efficient.

Absolutely this! Why can't other people (DH, DS) hang things straightened out on airers and lines? When DH, especially, says he's put it all on the airer, I go look and it looks like he's stood at the door and just hurled the washing across the room in the general direction of the airer. He even leaves socks half-balled up and random sleeves rolled up.

I also have a heat pump dryer and can tumble dry nearly everything. I love it . No shrinkages so far .

I use the line for .most things. As long as not raining dries off a bit if windy. Love the smell. Then use a dehumidifier/heated airer combo. No room for a drier and so much cheaper. We have loads of washing (5 sporty people)

I tumble dry everything, apart from my cashmere and pure wool items and linen items in summer.

I do 3-5 loads of laundry a day and line drying or putting on an airer would not dry it all quick enough.

i have a heat pump tumble dryer and have never shrunk anything

The smell of line dried clothes isn't my favourite, but perhaps I've just always lived somewhere smelly or with less fresh breeze.

In more urban locations, perhaps due to polution it just didn't smell as fresh when dried outside as it does after a tumble dry.

I'm in a rural village now, and there are 2 houses that often burn rubbish/ garden waste on the best drying days. If not, one of the farmers has probably been muck-spreading.

I do try to dry whites and sports kits outside if good drying conditions though, but these are few and far between so my heat pump dryer usually takes care of the majority, with the help of the dehumidifier and wall mounted airer.

I tumble all underwear, socks, towels, bedding, t shirts. Never had any issues.

I tumble dry nearly everything. Can't peg out for many reasons.
Don't tumble dry jumpers.

All my clothes keep well and last years/ decades!

It would be full of spiders if you leave it out even once overnight. Yuk no chance

I tumble dry most things, I have an old vented drier which DH has repaired several times and has apart to clean the innards once a year, I like a vented one as it dries towels quickly and I just have it on the cooler setting for clothes.

My knick knacks would definitely shrink if I tumble dried them🫢

So I use it solely for bedlinen and towels.

I hang mine to dry and when damp I finish them off in the dryer on the 15 min cycle.

No wonder the planets in such a mess.