Carol knows that I resisted buying a tumble dryer till recently and I’ve had mine about a week. I do usually hang my washing on clothes horses (or airers, lol), and sometimes set the dehumidifier going. In the rental I had a large spare bedroom, where the boiler was, and kept damp washing in there. I also went to the launderette a lot to use their dryers, and bed linen or towels would be hung over the bannisters to air, as there was loads of room.
Used my tumbler just once so far, as not done any more washing. My clothes line is very short, because of the small size of the garden.
I try to keep humidity down to about 50%. The tumble dryer is in the garage and the moist air is kept outside. The dehumidifier gathers in the moisture from the clothes, so it doesn’t go into the air in the house.
Same way as I dry them on summer days, on my Hills hoist in the garden.
The only difference is that on summer days the washing takes a couple of hours to dry, on winter days it might take 3 or 4 hours to dry depending if there is any wind.
If it is raining I don’t wash or on the rare occasion that I do I hang things in the car port.
I don’t own a tumble dryer, actually I have never owned a tumble dryer.
I wouldn’t mind one of the drying lines that go over the bath. My old one, provided with the flat when new, soon had sagging lines, so when my nephew in law did the bathroom, we tried to put up a new one, but it didn’t work, somehow. The washing was able to drop moisture into the bath and being high up, dried nicely. And I used to open the window.
Can’t do it in this bathroom till I change/remove the shower screen.
I love my washer/dryer. No room for an airing rack, but if an item can’t be tumbled I have a airer that I use for drying, right in front of a hot air vent in here. It works for most clothing, they dry OK, but not towels, they do dry hard & nasty if not tumbled. My Daughter doesn’t have a dryer & her towels are horrible to use & those do get dried out doors too.
I wonder f it’s the modern washing powder. In the days when my Mum did her washing with a boiler & proper soap rather than detergent & dried all her washing out doors then ironed it all, (something I do not do), I never remember hard scracthy towels then.
I wouldn’t be without a tumble drier. In good weather I love the smell of washing that’s blown dry outside, but wouldn’t want damp clothes drying in the house, and certainly not on a radiator making the air damp and encouraging mould spores - not to mention ruining the radiator paint eventually. In an emergency I’ve been known to dry off a small item over the shower screen rather than put the machine on, but it’s rare.
Oh I remember those… I can still see the sheets as flat as a piece of paper
I don’t have a drier. At this time of year, it’s central heating on, wet clothes on radiators, all windows wide open. Sometimes I put the dehumidifier on too. Takes a couple of hours or so depending what I’m washing.
There’s no room for a dedicated space for wet clothes. I don’t put the wet clothes on the bedroom rads, just the lounge, kitchen and bathroom.
I try to wait for days that have a breeze, preferably with no rain, but that doesn’t always work out.
When I bought this house it still had a mangle in the (outside) laundry. Long gone now but I saved the concrete twin tubs.
The concrete tubs (lined with zinc) used to be in great demand by horse owners but it has sat in my garden for nearly 40 years and I am thinking of planting something in it (can’t rush into these things):!:.
I miss my tumble dryer it was a condensing one,I hate washing hanging around ,Carol,I am thinking about getting another small one that will fit into my bedroom cupboard as I have nowhere else to put it plus it would have to be another condenser.
I’d bought my TD on ‘buy now, pay after 6 months’ but decided to pay it all off yesterday, as I had funds left over. Was going to transfer into savings account but thought, better do it now. Don’t want to forget and it starts incurring hefty interest charges. (Was due April.)
