Where to dry wet clothes?

Large items go on my over the stairs pulley, smalls on the racks hooked on the radiator, towels in the tumble drier.
I'm disabled so hanging washing up takes me longer, but I do like using my rotary drier in the garden.
I've got a vertical folding drying rack, but clothes have to be hung on clothes hangers to use that. I tend not to bother with it.
The advantage of the pulley over the stairs is that using a good quality fabric conditioner in the wash scents the whole house as clothes dry.

Perhaps you need your hot water tank insulated Victoria!

QUOTE from CleopatraSoup: " Drying washing on the radiators can make your home damp and can also lead to mildew and mould spores developing which is very bad for one's health plus it ruins clothing, books and furniture."
Ok. I agree with all of that, but surely that does not only apply to drying on radiators? The water which comes out of the wet washing on airers has to go somewhere doesn't it?
I am living in a tiny flat now, with a covenant forbidding us to put washing on the balconies, or even in a window on view for passers-by, and there is no outside facility. (Male architects and designers I suspect!!)
Answer: I have bought a de-humidifier, and try only to do washing on dry days so it is dry air circulating.

Outside whenever I can, otherwise over a huge banister. Upstairs in my house is always very warm no matter whether the heating is on or not. I find even heavy jeans and work clothes dry overnight.

Outside all year round, we're lucky enough to have a sort of barn, open on 2 sides, and I have a line in there.
A few things on a line above the fire.
Does anyone remember the days of towelling nappies? I used to leave mine out in all weathers. Sometimes they froze hard and that somehow made them softer when they thawed out.

I try to wash bedding and heavy stuff such as jeans, towels etc, only on days when no rain is forecast, so they can dry outside. In fact I try to dry most stuff outside as much as possible, but when it's wet it all goes on a large airer which we place in front of the open airing cupboard where the hot water tank is - even with the insulation it still chucks out some heat. Plus the radiator in that room is next to the cupboard so heat is coming from two sides and things dry overnight - even folded bedding and towels.

Persistentdonor The tumble dryer I have doesn't have a hose for ventilation. It collects all the water in a special reservoir drawer in the machine and when it's full I pull it out and empty it down the sink hence there is no condensation in the atmosphere.

Agreed about architects they don't think do they? You'd think they could at least set aside a small outside drying area. My foreign friends are appalled that laundry facilities are so often disregarded here.

I have a small conservatory off the kitchen, which gets any sun that is around. I put the washing on a clothes-horse out there (one with a horizontal rack so that they hang separately). It is dry in a day. Plants out there need a lot of watering, so the damp from the washing is good rather than bad.

Outside if possible and if it doesn't dry completely it goes on a vertical airer in the bathroom. I'm trying not to use the tumble drier as much as I did because the monitor for the new smart meter shows me that it's by far the highest electricity consumer in the house. Towels are part-dried in the garden or indoors and finished off in the drier to keep them soft and fluffy.

Lightbulb moment....I could put a drying rack in the unheated greenhouse to dry things! It gets really quite warm in there
Might just try that.

Modern appliances are energy-efficient and not as expensive to run as they used to be. I was quite surprised at the difference when I bought a new dryer and ditched the old one that had been in an outside shed.

Before we had the conservatory I tried that once or twice - but I got soaked taking the washing to the end of the garden to put it there.

When it won't dry outside I use two 'concertina' type airers in the dining room, with some stuff hung along the curtain rail (window only looks onto garden!) I've also got a couple of radiator hangers like these

I've never understood why some people say drying clothes inside is bad, whilst others buy humidifiers to make the air less dry!

I don't do anything special in the way of ventilation. Windows get opened for five minutes or so in the morning in Winter, then tight shut all day!

like these

I have heard good reports about the Lakeland heated aired but it is a bit expensive

Outside in summer but I bought one of these Drysoon airers from Lakeland. Brilliant. I liked it so much I bought the new one with a timer & gave the other to my son who has no garden at his flat.
We have a large bathroom so I put it on overnight in there- we also have cheaper electricity at night. It dries a full load overnight easily once you get the hang of loading it correctly. I also cover the whole thing with an old sheet which helps a lot- they sell a cover for it but a sheet works just fine. They say it costs 6p an hour to run but overnight it is less than that for us.
I haven't used tumble dryer since I bought the first one.
Really pleased with it.

Almost everything goes in the tumble dryer. It is on at the moment drying DH's work wear and my winter coat. I am guilty of putting stuff that can't be tumbled on the radiators. If the weather is fine I do use the washing line outside, but we have a shared access with next door, and my washing line stretches across it. I don't like to think of my neighbours and their visitors having to dodge my washing on their way in and out!

I've been thinking about getting one of those *seasider, but it seems to work best with the cover, and that makes it even more expensive.

Might add that generally the clothes get hung in the garden like today.. Towels always tumbled until fluffy then hung outdoors to finish off.

Sheets, underwear and socks in tumble drier. Clothes on an airer in spare bedroom, they get 24 hours, then if need a bit more drying into the airing cupboard with them or radiators, which husband hates and makes frequent reference to house looking like Widow Twankey's.

I hang washing outside whenever possible, but do have a tumble dryer for emergencies. However, my best thing is an electrically heated airer which uses only about the same amount of electricity as a light bulb but makes laundry dry much quicker. It also makes my whole (unheated) utility room feel toasty when it's switched on. I bought it in Aldi so it wasn't expensive - I love it. It's especially good for drying sweaters that need to be dried flat.

In the garden on the whirly washing line whenever possible, and then
draped on an airer in the porch which always gets the best of whatever sunshine there is. Bit of a problem in the winter when there isn't any sunshine, but somehow it always gets dry eventually.

My doctor told me to dry my clothes on the radiators all the time I have the central heating on, he said it would help my sinuses! He said our houses become too dry, people were meant to live on the grasslands in the open air. He gave me quite a lecture.

However - in one house we did get damp walls and peeling paper in one room. It was the only one we ever had any problems in, though.

I hang shirts and dresses up from doorways on their hangers in the winter. Thick jeans and towels go over the radiators, pullovers go on a rack in the airing cupboard, all small bitty items go in the tumble dryer. I used to have radiator racks but it took me forever to put the washing on them and they took ages to dry.

I think if you don't have a great deal of washing to dry then using a tumble dryer is not that prohibitive. It is certainly cheaper than correcting dampness and mildew on wallpaper.
I hate the feel of fabric that has become stiff from drying on a radiator so everything I wash is dried in the tumbler and ironed immediately. My radiators are stainless steel and a feature of the décor and not for hanging clothes on.

I use an airer in the front room, near a radiator, and over the banister, as our kitchen is too small to fir a dryer in.