Where do you dry your laundry?

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Sorry I don't currently live in UK and will be moving over in a few months. Where do you all dry your laundry apart from by using a tumble dryer? Any aesthetically pleasing solutions?

Will you have a garden?

Tumble dryer, garden on a good day and finish off in the airing cupboard. Some bits a door have to dry on the radiator.

Clothes airer in the spare room all through winter. I hate it but have found so many clothes don’t tumble well.

Summer - outside on the line.
Winter - on a mildish, breezy day, outside on the line. Otherwise on an airer in the bathroom with the dehumidifier on laundry setting for non tumble dry items. Towels and so on get an hour or so in the tumble dryer (I have a washer/dryer) then air on Sheila Maid or on airer by heaters.

Tumble drier for towels etc, and on the line in the garden when it's warmer. DH has created a rather marvelous laundry drying area at the top of our stairs where we dry everything else. Everything hangs in the space above the stairs (accessed via the landing) which means we don't need to have airers up (I used to get so sick of having them up and in the way aaaall the time).

Washing line in summer. Airer in the corner of our bedroom with dehumidifier in winter or wet days. Not aesthetically pleasing but at least it’s not on view downstairs.

Tumble dryer or airer in the garden on a sunny day for that wonderful air-dried smell.

We're moving to a house with a pulley maid though and I am ridiculously excited!!

Thanks everyone. So if drying inside should ideally have a dehumidifier

or you can put a line over the bath, turn on the extractor fan, and shut the door and window

this will prevent damp accumulating in the bathrom and drifting round the house.

A good modern extractor with a ball-bearing motor is almost silent and will run for about 100 hours on 14pence worth of electricity.

damp washing draped over radiators is a terrible source of condensation, damp and mould in UK homes.

I couldn't I've without my Sheila maid.
sheilamaid.com

I don't have a tumble dryer as I don't like them. I have the it mounted on the ceiling in my kitchen diner, which I'm sure will horrify many on here 😮 I have very high ceilings and when pulled up not even bed sheets get in the way. It's the warmest part of the house and is aired regularly. Clothes dry in no time.
I hate floor standing airers that have to stand around damp for a good couple of days to dry. I don't have dehumidifier and don't have condensation or damp.

I’d love an extractor fan in my bathroom. But I can’t put one in. Listed building, listed windows, 20 inch thick walls. So a dehumidifier it is.

I love my Sheila Maid for anything that can't be tumble dried

It's in the utility room so out of the way and keeps the floor space free. We have an extractor fan in there too .

On the line in the garden during summer. In winter on a clothes horse airer with the dehumidifier. They're often dry within 24 hrs. I have hangers over the radiator for socks. I wash twice a week (for 2 adults) and that means it can be spread out more on the airer so it dries quicker.

I have a heated lakeland airer with a dehumidifier in the utility room for the days when drying outside isn't viable. It's amazing. I lay things flat on it in layers as they dry quicker than hanging them. I really don't like tumble dried clothes and towels, plus it wrecks things so quickly.

I don’t like wet/damp washing in the house so everything goes in the tumble dryer. Some things say don’t tumble dry but not had any problems with anything.

Dehumidifiers are excellent and prevent so many problems, so yes, you would be well advised to have one.

I’m in France. I check the weather forecast then have a blitz of washing and hanging on the line.
Last few weeks have been awful so accumulated a lot of washing. About 5 loads.
So used the tumble dryer for small things & got the worst out of sheets & duvet covers on the line then finished off on the dryer.
Finished off a few things on fire screen in front of log burner( jeans & dressing gown) as they would have taken ages in tumble dryer.
Next sunny day due on Sunday so will be doing a few loads then.

On the line outside if it's good weather. We haven't got a tumble dryer, so in bad weather/winter clothes are hung inside. We have a pulley above the stairs (in the void) that you can reach when you let it down, but it's not big enough for a whole load of washing (extra big washing machine drum), so we have clothes horses in the bedrooms and put clothes on radiators a lot.

I get really annoyed with having clothes horses up everywhere - have been wondering if I could convert the loft space into a drying room. It's too low to be an actual loft conversion (the beams cross at about eye level on me, and I'm short), but maybe I could floor it, get electricity installed for lights, and a radiator. Plus de-cobweb and de-spider it all and put the clothes horses up there. There's a cupboard at the top of the stairs that could be an access point (current loft hatch is above the narrowest part of the hall right outside the bathroom door, so any ladder would be massively in the way, but I could cut a hatch above the cupboard and put a ladder in the cupboard). DH thinks this a bonkers idea but right now we don't use the loft at all because the access is so awkward, and you have to climb up a stepladder and then push the hatch up while bits of horrible itchy fibreglass insulation dust and spiders fall down your neck and into your hair, and it bugs me that there's this perfectly good storage area that we don't use at all.

This is aesthetically pleasing and v useful
https://www.gardentrading.co.uk/home/indoor-furniture/shelving-hooks/extending-clothes-dryer-chalk.htm?productid=3860&utmsource=google&utmmmedium=base&gclid=Cj0KCQiAkMDiBRDNARIsACKP1FEuPDyK0fv5OeSSqtmxtDoVO37vNk82-ToYmhLkfKmU1gUkBAnBpUaAoOBEALwwwcB

Outside on a whirly gig from Feb to Nov (and if it's windy clothes will dry outside all year round). This time of year on a drying rack in the utility room, we have a fan. Last house we put the drying rack on the (admittedly large) landing at the top of the stairs. I did keep meaning to put a molly maid up there. Love a molly maid.

Condensation is more of an issue in a well insulated house, an old drafty house can cope with a bit of clothes drying in front of the fire .

My boiler is in a block built shed outside (oil boiler) so I've got a clothes horse in there, I just bung all the socks on top of the boiler (even in summer as it still heats the water) and hang the underwear on an Ikea octopus in there (worth getting one of these if you can- cheap and v handy). I've only just worked this out and convinced it's going to save me a fortune on tumble drying this year 😁

In the baby's room. It smells lovely.

In my laundry room. Tumble dryer or drying rail. Cubby holes for dried washing for each member of the family. Door to external airer in summer.

In winter, on a clothes horse overnight in the room with the with the wood burning stove. In the summer outside. Dripping jumpers/ hand wash over the bath with fan on.
It helps to have a fast spin on your washing machine.

Outside in the summer. Currently in my laundry room in the tumble dryer or hung on drying rail which is fixed along one long wall (it’s fantastic).