Am I making more work for myself?

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Lots of washing every day to do. When I can't peg out all that can goes in the drier, the rest on airers. i then fold it all and it goes in the airing cupboard over night or until the next lot is going in and I need the space. Is it really necessary?

What are you asking? That you may have two much washing?

Or if you need to use the airing cupboard? I don't have an airing cupboard, so I would say, no, you don't need it.

No! Put it straight back where it belongs! I'm sure it'll be fine....

Why the airing cupboard step?? Dry washing is just put away.

well, dry washing is stacked on the side to be put away at some nameless point in the future in my house, but same concept.

I meant does it need to go in the airing cupboard. I guess I use it as somtimes the clothes don't feel bone dry. Would save me work!

I don't have an airing cupboard.

Can you squeez another airer in for when you need more space and the first lot isn't bone dry?

My airers fit through doors so if the airer in the bathroom is full of not quite dry clothes, I put the really wet ones on the second airer in a bedroom or the living room. Then at the end of the day when the first lot is bone dry I put the clothes away and fold up the airer. Then I carry the full airer to the bathroom so it is out of the way.

I have an airer in the airing cupboard and another in the en suite. Blooming clothes everywhere!

Look at the things being washed and see if they can go another wear before they have to be washed. I only keep towels/tea-towels or sheets in my airing cupboard.

My Mum tends to hang damp shirts etc on hangers to dry so when they are done they can go straight back into wardrobes - but she does have a conservatory to dry things in in winter. Underwear goes on those little rotary hangers where it hangs merrily until claimed.

Like OSOTC I don't have an airing cupboard - I live in an apartment building with central heating and hot water for the whole block, so there is no hot water cistern to make into an airing cupboard.

The heating is on in our building from October to May. During this time there is no problem drying laundry on airers - I tumble first to get rid of creases and then hang clothes on hangers on the airer and spread sheets out, to minimise creasing. Sometimes I "finish off" drying socks and underwear on the tops of radiators if I need the airer space but basically everything gets bone dry on the airers.

In the summer when the heating is off and if the weather is cool/damp, I sometimes resort to putting the bathroom electric towel rail on to finish off the drying.

Basically it depends on how dry your washing gets in your house/garden as to whether you need to put it in the airing cupboard. My mother, in England, uses hers a lot.