If you're not putting your heating on, and you don't have a tumble dryer, how do you get your washing dry???

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I'm accumulating piles of wet washing, which ends up having to be washed again as it doesn't dry properly and smells musty. I loathe tumble dryers from an eco/ cost perspective (ditto heating when it's not properly cold). Any other ideas? I've given up on the idea of ever seeing a blue sky again...

I have a Minky airer which holds quite a lot (& will just about stand in the bath) & will deal with much of a single load - but I do have to do at least a load a day & keep on top of it.

Also hang jeans/towels/sheets over banisters.

Also have louvre doors on bathroom cupboard & hang random things over those.

But I do have to finish everything off for 10-20 mins in tumble dryer, even when it's been able to spend some time on the line outside - it dries out all the seams & gets rid of a few extra creases pre-folding.

Oh, and I do put socks & knicks & quite a lot of T-shirst straight into the dryer when I'm desperate.

Does anybody know why all US T-shirts says "tumble dry low" and 99% of UK T-shirts say "do not tumble dry"???

we have never had a tumble dryer so I don't miss it. I have two large fold away clothes racks from Robert Dyas or some such and they do fine: I hang up a load then put the rack in my and dh's bedroom. I try to iron in the evenings as I go along.

Bubble....Wow that is a cheap launderette!!!

I spent over £10 drying washing on our recent trip to Cornwall.

However hard it is in a house its worse in a tent! I am very jealous of our neighbour who has a wasing line under her carport.

I always put shirts/polo tops/t shirts straight onto hangers so they dry in a better shape than if you put them on the rack.

I dry on an airer - wilkos have them on offer at the mo for £8.99 (I don't know how good it is though - we bought ours from tesco at £19.99 - but it looked similar) and over radiators even though they aren't on. and on radiator airers too!

I only spin at 1000 - when you spin at 1400 it is harder to get creases out when you iron them (if you iron them )

we have got a tumble dryer, but the fluff collector bit broke at the beginning of the rainy season summer and we haven't replaced it because we are trying to save money! i use terry nappies too and somehow manage!

3 loads in each dryer. £2 in each and off for a coffee and a sticky bun for half an hour.

i have had to use the tumble dryer more than i cared to this, erm, summer.

27 out of 31 days of measurable rain in the month of August. 263.2mm in August alone. The wettest January-August since 1948.

this house is riddled with damp and it's getting even worse.

landlord's arranged for damp specialist to come through next week.

It all hangs on an airer or on hangers in the spare bedroom

If we didn't have a spare bedroom I'm not sure where it would go - dining room probably

All shirts, tops etc hang from hangers on the curtain rail. They dry in 24 hours max as we have upvc windows that can be locked slightly open

Works well for us - I don't feel the need for a tumble drier at all. If I had more children or no spare room I would reserve the right to change my mind on that...

we have an air cooling / heating machine on wheels. is about 1000wph so we reckon better than putting heating on but only for laundry emergencies.

huge pile of washing, waiting (optimistically) for sunny weather

have an airer.
also when close to dry hang in airing cupboard where hot water boiler is.

only use tumble driers for towels. and if really necessary other stuff, but not as a routine. this is about the time of year to use them tbh, too wet outside but not cold enough to put heating on.

I have a Hangaway from Lakeland and a mikado drier - I put both in the conservatory which is a suntrap (even in winter) and because the stuff on the hangaway is on hangers it reduces my ironing as well as drying it really quickly.

I got two loads dry today (it was bright here).

Other than that, a dining room filled with washing on racks (I have 3).

Make sure room is well aired (ie open windows, even if raining) and move the racks about from time to time.

Take off top layer things (which are usually sheets/shirts here) as soon as dry.

Hate tumble dryers. (i have one but never use it)

if you have space thos close horse airers are great, i can get between 2&3 loads on one of them.... takes up a bit of room though and the kittens think it's a climbing frame.

unfortuantely stuff still takes 3/4 days to dry but at least it doesn't reek when it's hanging up.

2/3 loads every 3/4 days though doesn't even come close to covering the amount of washing 2 messy toddlers in washable nappies and 2 messy adults can create

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i hate laundry on display....put the dryer on..

Clothes airer in the kitchen. We finally got one when our tumble drier died as few months back and I refused to get it fixed. I was amazed how quickly it dries especially with the back door open so there's a draught. The air is quite warm atm I suppose. Even better in the winter when the heating will be on.

Ironing stuff when wet and then hanging it over the airer speeds things up too.

Hang washing up in a busy room so that it gets lots of airflow -- spare bedrm or unused rooms not s good. Preferably somewhere high (warm air rises). Bathrooms are usually too damp to be good drying places.

Our lounge curtain rails and tops of doors are festooned with terry nappies at the moment.

Am I missing the point? I always hang mine on the line outside. You know, washing basket, pegs etc?

Admittedly I am home most days. I suppose I might need alternative arrangements if I were working full time.

I do have an indoor dryer for occasional use but I hate washing drying indoors. I don't have radiators and I don't have a tumble dryer. Even on bad days, washing hung up outside will dry or will get to the point where it only needs a short time on the indoor dryer to finish off.

Tumble dryers are the work of the devil (though I admit on holiday, the house had one and it was fantastic for drying soggy beach towels).

DG.... problem with that is, here at least, it's raining at least twice a day.

the last few times i hung stuff out and it started to rain, between having to dress myself to go out in the swamp garden and having to find some way of stopping the kids from following me out into the bog garden in their socks, i didn't get to the washng til it was soaked so i had to choose beteeen leaving it out and hoping it didn't rain for 2 days straight and it got dry or bringing it in and having to spin it and find a place to hang it inside.

last time i chose leaving it out as it was bedsheets and i had the machine on so couldn't spin them.

3 days later when they were so wet they were dragging in the mud i had to give in and bring them back in and rewash them!

I work DG, am not at home to keep an eye on the rain etc.

My laundry is dried in the spare room on airers (I have 2 big ones, oo-er).

I do have a tumble drier which I use for towels as they take up too much room on the airer and take too long to dry (which makes them go a bit whiffy).

Yes, I accept that those who work may not want to put their washing out to await the inevitable downpour.

Mine is out there now and is out there every day unless it is actively raining. But then, I don't really have any other choice. I am certainly not willing to live in my own Chinese laundry.

annie, I don't have an airing cupboard (hot water tank cupboard) in this house, as we are on hot water on demand combi system, but I did in my old place. It was a bloody godsend ! I could get a whole washing machine load in there on a mixture of coat hangers and whatnot. The stuff dried overnight, no problem and there were no ugly racks hanging around the place. I miss my airing cupboard.