Clothes Drying Advice please ?

My bloke has a pulley in the kitchen and his clothes do pick up cooking odours so not a solution for me.

I bought my sheila maid with me, and have been toying with the idea of having it installed over the bath. Unfortunately I don't think the 'false ceiling' here (spotlights) will be strong enough.

I've never used a tumble dryer. I think they age clothes much quicker than air drying.

Might look into a heated airer. I'll be economising on the heating this winter and don't want the house to get damp.

DD had a drying pod in her last home, she found it caused condensation and the clothes often smelt musty .

Fanny it’s just the two of us in a flat. I have one of those Lakeland heated airers (without the cover). It’s wonderful for drying clothes I put shirts and t shirts on hangers and hang from the top row of rails or hang trousers over the rails. I very seldom put the heating element on. I put it us in our spare bathroom (when we’re not expecting visitors) and most things are dry enough overnight to be ironed the following day. I think it brilliant. Couldn’t be without it.

We have a bedroom that gets sun all day Clothes horse in front of window.

Unless the weather forecast is rain for days on end, I will try and save my laundry for a better day, so it can go outside.
Failing that, I’ve one of those X shaped clothes racks, which fits in my airing cupboard where the hot water tank is. I also have a small rack that fits on a radiator, which is perfect for small stuff.

I had a Sheila Maid at my last house. Very useful. I now have a separate upstairs laundry room with a fixed hanging rail which is easier, less capacity but it doesn't involve stretching up and hauling up and down!

3dognight

Yes Fanny nobody likes washing hanging all about the house, but it’s almost unavoidable in winter isn’t it?

For us I’m going to go back to what my Nana did in her back kitchen over her range- one of the wooden pulley ones that you load up with washing then hoist up to the ceiling. This will go up above my stove.

Functional, but not pretty!

I was thinking of doing that above the AGA which goes on in October but at a £1000 per 1000 litres at the moment with no price cap on oil mentioned. We have just been talking about continuing to use the plinth heaters for meals and the electric cooker.
A friend also told me if you dry clothes above the cooker you end up smelling as if you work in a Chip Shop!!!! Unfortunately, if it does not go on then we have to put radiators on upstairs as the house is linear and only one room wide. Our bedroom is above the kitchen and always cosy without radiators.
DD had had to put something in the tumbler the other day and my GD was shouting out as the numbers were changing on the meter all the time we were talking.

kittylester

I'm posh!! I have a Sheila Maid in the utility room.

I always knew that Kitty!

I’ve just looked at the website, and they really are posh, especially the wrought iron ones.
Do I have odd aspirations? ?

No room at all for a clotheshorse.I dry on the line whenever possible and maybe finish off with a few minutes in the tumble dryer….

I havnt had a tumble dryer fir more than 45 years but bought one a couple of years ago. In that time have used it about 4 times. It’s tucked away in an eaves space so not something in view.

kittylester

I'm posh!! I have a Sheila Maid in the utility room.

I have a pulley in mine. ?

I'm posh!! I have a Sheila Maid in the utility room.

I tend to do washing on dry days to hang in the garden. In winter when the heating is on I have over the radiator hooks which work well. Dresses shirts and tops are shaken and put on hangers and by morning most is dry.
Also have an airer which I use in the spare bedroom near the radiator.

I have seen the dryers in the Lakeland catalogue and they look good. Cheap to run too. I would feel more confident buying from them (as I often do) than getting a similar item from Amazon.

I’ve got all three options, I only use the tumble dryer for towels and sweatshirts occasionally. My Sheila Maid is in use in summer on wet days, but it causes condensation in the winter because the utility room is cold. The Lakeland airer is able to take two loads of washing at once, and as it also warms up the room it’s in, I put it in the dining area of my lounge and switch off the heating when it’s on. It’s never caused any problems with condensation.

I have one of those heated racks. I bought it from Amazon, its the same as the Lakeland one but was £30 cheaper! I didn't get the cover but I use a double duvet cover over it (opened up and dropped over) which works well. I did find it took longer to dry washing without the cover. I am the same as you Fannyno space, but it folds up flat to store and dries the washing in a few hours so its not about for long.

I have a spare bedroom in which I stand a clothes horse in front of a radiator, I leave a window slightly ajar to get rid of the condensation.

Works well.

Actually now I’ve read the thread I do exactly like grannyboots

I try and dry outside but have a tumble dryer to finish off if still damp. I also have two airers on my landing. Hot air rises so in the winter when the heating is on, things dry over night. I have also used a caravan/window airer hooked over the banisters and that was very effective.

If a tumble dryer is out of the question I think the heated rack is the best solution- or an ordinary clothes horse with a de-humidifier switched on for a while or both.
I think getting the damp washing smell out of the air is crucial in winter, otherwise it would be ? miserable, too much like the old days.

The Lakeland heated drier is great. I don’t have the cover - works well without. Can get a lot on it. Could leave up in a spare room or use overnight. Easy to fold down when not in use.

Never had a tumble drier either, if it can’t go out it goes on the clothes horse in the spare double bedroom, soon dries.

Never had a tumble drier.

Put my washing outside whenever possible, like it to ‘have a blow’ even if it doesn’t dry, obviously not in the rain!

Then it goes on an ordinary clothes horse in the conservatory, and as things dry, move them around the hall etc to air.

Do like to feel my washing has ‘aired’, an unknown concept to DIL, who never seems to worry about things like that.

But I keep my mouth ?

This is the Dry Pod that I’m thinking about.
According to one of the reviewers, it’s 10p an hour to use.
Dry:Soon Drying Pod Dries Clothes Quickly and Efficiently amzn.eu/d/fanouSp

I’m wondering what I’m going to do with towels and duvet covers etc ?
I’d like one of those pulley things (I always consider them quite posh!)
but I don’t have the room.
In fact, I really don’t have any room