Drying room?

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We're planning an extension which will result in a utility room that is about 3m deep and the width of our double garage (maybe 4.5m). We currently dry most of our clothes in another room that won't be available for drying clothes. We dry them on 3 folding racks. We don't use our tumble dryer much, just for towels and underwear. I was thinking about sectioning off the end of the utility to have a dedicated drying room. Has anyone done something similar or seen something similar? Thanks

I saw something similar in a Victorian country house (can't remember which one) where they had a laundry room of about that size with airers hung from the ceiling. I haven't seen it done in a modern house but I don't see why you couldn't.

We created a sort of drying space in an alcove in our utility. Put some louvred doors on the front and a low cost heater in there.
In my previous house I'd used the airing cupboard a lot and we don't have one here.
It was a godsend when we had to get stuff dried on a quick turnaround when we had all the family home.
I think nowadays, I would look into a dehumidifier rather than a heater, maybe.

We literally had an airer, and then a clothes rail quite high, with a load of hangers on it. I suspect a pulley would be better in a larger space.

I have a drying room. So small utility where my washer and dryer is.

screwed hooks into the walls and zig zagged a washing line between all the hooks. Dry clothes inside with dehumidifier running. It works well.

Seems like quite a costly/inefficient use of space to me, unless you have a space surplus in a country mansion or similar.

One end our utility is designated for drying - we have a towel radiator (which we can operate independently of the other radiators), a pulley maiden and hanging rack and really good extractor fan. Works really well.

Pulleys are gods gift to housekeeping. And keeps everything off the floor. It’s more efficient if you use them in the warmest room in the house - collocating with the tumble drier means you kind of get the benefit of running it twice. You’ll need to make sure you have some good ventilation (so you don’t have to pay to run a dehumidifier) but I’d do it.

We have one where tumble dryer and washer are. Also have a heated airer and a pulley airer we in there. We also have a de humidifier.

4 adults, loads of washing, especially hoodies. Unless dryer, airer and radiator are on, the room smells. It’s not happened until this year as we weren’t cutting back on heating before. Constantly wet washing smells even with window open and dehumidifier. This is the first year in 10 years this has happened. I’m tearing my hair out.

In my last, very small, Victorian terraced house we had two small rooms at the back of the kitchen that had a down stairs loo and basin in one half and space and plumbing for the washing machine in the other half. The boiler was on the wall above the washing machine (it obviously used to be the downstairs bathroom that was built onto the back of these houses in the 50s/60s/70s incorporating the old outside loo into the house).

Anyway, because it housed the boiler the washing machine room was lovely and warm. We put a sheila maid on the ceiling and got all our washing dry so easily and efficiently. There was a window in the downstairs loo room so could have that open too for ventilation. I bloody loved that set up - it was like a mini utility in room in a small house where you just wouldn't expect it.

I've got a hanging rail at the front of my hot water tank cupboard which is under the stairs so quite deep and there's a couple of ft between the door and the tank . It is v useful for drying laundry as it gets so warm from the tank, but also things like wet boots and trainers/ coats in winter etc and swimwear in summer. Not sure if that's an option.

This reminds me of my uni halls. We had a giant drying room with loads of wooden airers fixed to the walls and floors. It always felt a bit eerie in there at the time but four children in I would bloody love it!

Unused boxroom used here. I got two clothes rails on wheels from Argos, (double rails) and put everything on hangers and open the window slightly. No damp no dehumidifier either. Works a treat, there is a radiator in there, and undies and socks go on a sock drier thinggy.

Iron and ironing board (neat wall mounted jobbie) only used a couple of times a year in there also. I don't know why I never thought of the clothes rails before, but they are brilliant. Even the sheets duvet covers etc. go on hangers and are turned around to dry or draped on the rails if there's not much else there.

I feel very smug about it now. Huh...

We have a laundry room in the basement and we put up drying poles for drying things. One is wide enough for sheets/duvets. We also have a drying rack. There's a dehumidifier in the next room over which helps.

It's a godsend especially as I live in a country where the garden is snow-covered 5 months a year then pollen-central most of the rest of the year.

We have a semi-basement, the boiler is in a sort of nook in it with enough room for two massive racks and wall mounted baskets with everyones clothes in.

I can dry three full loads in a day, all year round, it's just brilliant and everyone should have somewhere like that!

I'd rather lose a bedroom than give it up.

Absolutely, great idea! We have an airing cupboard, but the first day of a wash the clothes go on those clothes horses in an enclosed room with the dehumidifier on, then the airing cupboard for finishing off.

Our utility room is having pulleys on ceiling

I have a section of my utility room as a dedicated drying space. I have wall hung racks so everything goes on hangers and sits over a dehumidifier, there is a radiator under the rack as well. I can dry about 3 loads in a day if I need to.
I very rarely peg outside, it's just so easy to hang everything nicely and reduce creasing, leave it on the hanger, quick press if necessary and straight in to the wardrobe.

Our utility is L shaped but there's enough room for a small wall mounted drying rack above the radiator and we hang clothes from hangers on it. We do use our tumble dryer though the rack is mainly clothes that don't tumble well

Sounds like a lot of work putting clothes out and taking them in again, plus you'll still be using electricity to heat it. A good tumble dryer with heat pump takes a lot less energy than having an inefficient heater in a "drying room"- we have this which is brilliant www.bosch-home.co.uk/product-list/washers-dryers/tumble-dryers/heat-pump-dryer/WTX88EH9GB

Just to clarify... you're not running the dehumidifier with the window open are you?

I have a cross between a drying room and an airing cupboard. It's quite large and I initially thought it was a waste of space, but I couldn't be without it now. I line dry most of the year, only use tumble dryer to avoid crispy towels, and it's amazing to either completely dry/finish off a wash load. I wear a lot of jeans and it's a godsend for those. The heat comes from the massive cylinder in there though.

I have a laundry room (clean) and a boot room (dirty). The boot room also has a drying cabinet for wet coats, gloves, boots etc. it’s essentially the boiler cupboard but it’s very useful.