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...

we put ours in the airing cupboard. our thermostat is at 16 its not clicking on all of the time at the moment.

The family in the house 3 doors up from me hang their washing out rain or shine. I've lost count of how many times it has been rained on, s/he must be constantly rewashing the stuff

do people rewash washing that has been rained on then?

i came back from holidays the weekend before last with 2 weeks worth of dirty clothes - still have bags of summer clothes to be washed and put away for next year....unless I can get 2 loads dry a day I will never catch up - we easily generate a full load each day.

I can get a load dry each day by leaving it on the clothes horse for 24 hours and then finishing it off in the tumble dryer if necessary... it's the backlog from the holidays that is causing the problem at the moment. Can't imagine I'll get weather dry enough to wash and dry the sleeping bags...

I probably wouldn't for a short summer shower, nappyaddict, but if it has been torrentially poured on then I def would !

The laundry has been driving me mad this summer. We have no tumble dryer and I usually use the radiators/clothes horse in the spare room in the winter. I have a new baby and my middle child is still in nappies (in cloth) and I am really struggling with keeping on top of it all. DH keeps complaining that his clothes smell musty - but is resistant to getting a tumble dryer. I only want one for when the weather is like this. Would do what I usually do if the weather was 'normal'!

Have had to switch from ecover/soap nuts to a nice smelling powder for the time being, or it would smell awful. Also only doing my sheets every week and a half/2 weeks (instead of weekly) which I am hating

agree, hot presses are a life saver. we seem to be living in the only house in ireland that doesn't have one

or rather it does but it's so badly organised and doesn't have shelves or enough space for an airer so we an't use it as one... grrrr.

have had to switch back to fish murdering oaas well due to the smelliness of the clothes with the hippy stuff when they don't dry properly

Tumble dryer here. Not affraid to use it either. Hate loads of washing lying around although the computer room is used in the winter with the central heating!

Saying that though I live in Scotland where the weather has been really bad and temps are not really above 18 degrees!

Been quite cold too so my heating has been on more than once since August.

Currently have:

All smalls on radiators - without central heating on

10 tops I'm about to eBay on hangers hooked onto door handles and curtain rails by open windows - just put a woolly jumper on yourself

14 small items on an old indoor airer seperated at the top (like 2 ladders) - leaning against the wall

6 or 7 big items on radiator airers - but hung over the banisters

DS's little clothes on the rungs of his bunk bed ladder

That's room for about 30 - 35 things. The only downside of this sometimes is that by the time it's all out, so is the sun

Arrgh I'm totally fed up with all things laundry!! After awful summer of wet clothes hanging round the house for weeks on end, the final straw was this weekend when my washer/dryer blew up well it finished its programme but the door wouldn't open so we had to take the tool box to it and then discovered that none of the water had drained away - water all over the floor a full load of very wet school uniform and torrential rain outside. I spent the weekend diving between my mums and MIL with loads of washing. No new maching for two weeks

If you do use a tumble drier still, aren't you worried about your bills now? I daren't out mine on, even if it worked!

I make sure my tumble dryer is full. Clothes dry quicker when it is full so don't use for half a load.

does anyone know if the dri buddy is as good as it claims?

I don't have a tumble drier I'm usually fine using a combination of outside line and 2 indoor dryers but have struggled this week. I put the heating on for the first time yesterday for an hour to get dd1's school uniform dry.

one wash every day

hang on dryer thing

dries overnight usually

apart from jeans which are buggers and take 2 days or so

we do not have a dryer as I think they ruin clothes, tons of stuff of the girls has been shrunk due to MIL's dryer

That's why they invented conservatories...

... mine is used for nothing else but clothes horses and wet washing now... Dries ever so quick too...

I hang out most of the time, and manage to get things dry a vast part of the year. In really awful, extended runs of poor weather we use an indoor airer.

I would never put the heating on just to dry laundry though, but then we're tight about the heating - never on before October at the very earliest and usually off for the summer in May or some years even April.

I must admit though, a decent spin cycle is a must, if clothes are spun properly the drying time is really reduced.

I'm slightly amused that some people wash clothes again after a bit of rain!

how about one of those heated airers?? metal airer you plug in,heats up and dries it all......£30 from argos.....

The only answer is to do less washing tbh. Do spot cleaning, air clothes and be less fussy.

I put most of our stuff on a clothes horse or on the pathetically short line in the backyard (usually towels, sheets etc)

I have a washer/dryer but hardly ever uses the dryer tbh.

I wash EVERYTHING bar coats/jackets after ne wear and I tumbledry everything unless blazing sunshine outside..

Hah- we had to put the heating on at the weekend- nothing was drying- it is so damp, the air is just too wet to get clothes dry too- this is with windows open. Tons of flooding by us, am just sick of it. Washing is piling up, as I am doing a wash every 4 or 5 days instead of every 2 or 3

I do a couple of loads, get them nearly dry (about a day), hang on radiators and blast them for 2 hours or so to finish off. It works. It's hard with woollies though...not sure how to crack that.

oh crikey, this has been a constant thigummy in my mind all fecking "summer". I have several shit approaches and one kind of ok one

1. hang on washing line, gets rained on, leave, gets rained on again, be pleasantly suprised 2 or 3 days later to find that it's dry and smells fine. wear. find bird shit, put back in launrdy basket.

1. hang on airer in utility room. find 3 days later still damp and starting to smell. put back in laundry basket.

1. move airer next to window in play room. find 3 days later scattered on the floor. damp and starting to smell.

1. (whispers) use tumble drier. feel dreadful

1. hang on airer. stick in timble drier for 5 minutes a day later.it's the only one that works. but I only tumble dry socks and shitey clothes I don;t care about (ie not mine)so it's got minimal application