When do you hang clothes outside?

[Poppyfield15]

Now that the days are brighter, was just wondering if there was a cut off temperature you use to decide when the laundry gets put outside?

Why? That must be very expensive all that tumble drying. Wears away your clothes too.

I definitely would have today if I'd been at home. It was very mild, sunny , and a bit windy. But, by the time I got home it was pitch black and cold and damp.

My sister was like you, but when her tumble broke beyond repair I managed to convince her to go the dehumidifier route and she's never looked back. She has space to hang hers in the porch out of the way which helps. Has saved her a load of money (she obsesses over her smart meter).

Apparently if the patio is dry, the clothes will dry.

We use the dehumidifier too. It's really efficient, and heaper.

It’s also so bad for the environment.

I dried two loads yesterday including bedsheets. Was jubilant as that’s the first lot of washing I’ve dried outside since September . I hate drying washing indoors.

I’ve dried quite a lot outside this week. If you get it out early enough it’s dry by 2 or 3pm. I love the smell of washing when it’s been dried on the line. It’s much better than using the tumble dryer

All year round here too, we don't have a tumble dryer or dehumidifier. If it's windy but dry, even the cold days are good drying days. I hang clothes out on hangers if possible as they dry more quickly and are less creased

All year round. Even if they don't dry very much, at least they've had a good blast of fresh air.

I had the first load of the year out yesterday! I wfh on a Monday, and wouldn’t have chanced it if no-one was going to be in to sprint out when the rain inevitably started though.

Never. All goes in the dryer.

I just don’t understand this.

DH runs the washing in our house.

We don't have a dryer so in the winter we dry inside in the utility with a dehumifier and in the summer outside on the line.

DH tells me during the winter the outside line is the "clothes fridge" where he keeps waiting laundry fresh until there's room inside to to dry it. 😂

What is it you're having difficulty with? The individual words or the combination?

Why anyone would choose not to hang washing outside if they have a garden and it’ll dry outside.

My mum used to hang washing out all year round

I'm sorry to hear that.

All year round, if its not pissing rain out they go. They smell lovely and fresh particularly in summer when the honeysuckle and sweetpea is flowering beside them but I prefer drying outdoors if at all possible . I have a tumble dryer but luckily also have a hotpress where husbands shirts etc get hung on hangers, they dry overnight and require very little ironing. I've a few octopus hangers in there too for underwear, even jeans get hung there if necessary. I'm fortunate that there's just the two of us but two hairy house dogs also generate quite a bit of washing but their blankets get hung outside no matter the weather, the air does them good and we've enough not to worry about being short. Years ago we invested in a T Bar line which is very long so can take lots of bedding, it must be good because someone tried to rob it!!! I hate the overpowering synthetic scent of some people's washing and think does scent beads should be banned, I use eco friendly detergent (country life and septic tanks + dh has pretty bad psoriasis). I do understand families with kids uniforms needing a dryer though, I hadn't got one when my ds was in school and remember clothes horses in front of the open fire and on the radiators and the hope they'd be dry in time because I couldn't afford spares, I was glad to leave those says behind.

When it’s not raining, snowing or blowing a gail.
The temp inside our house isn’t that different from outside so it makes little difference in that regard

About April. I don't have a drier and don't want to have to rehang it indoors if it's not fully dry. So I let the heating dry it in winter

All year round 😀

Yeah, me too.

If it's windy and -15° you'll be fine, it'll dry nicely. If it's still, it'll freeze solid, but will also dry a bit. We've had frozen washing on occasion!

And if it's been outside, it always then dries faster inside if it needs finishing off than if it hadn't been outside.

Never, not allowed in my garden