How do ye dry your clothes

Can't see the garage being a problem, as the clothes will only be there for a relatively short while.

Got a clothes horse, stick it on the wee balcony or in the kitchen. We have a tumble dryer, but thats mainly for towels or big heavy stuff.

Clothes horse in the spare room. Rented flat doesn't have a drier so there are clothes at various stages of the drying process hanging up 24/7, with the window open during the summer and a dehumidifier during the winter.

Sod tumble driers! They Eat electricity!

I have a line up, in here and one in the kitchen. Got one outside too, obviously. But, when the weather's no good, I hang stuff indoors. Does it no harm. Though, maybe my place is better ventilated than some?

Popular thing, around here, is hanging washing in an unused hay barn. Dead sneaky that

I have no outdoor space either, and very rarely use the tumble dryer. Clothes horse in the bath and/or in the shower overnight. Concertina style clothes horse is best as you can make it narrow and high - the ones with fold out flaps take up far too much space.

A retractable clothes line over the bath is also useful.

If you have a garage that's ideal - as long as the garage isn't airtight. It's the lack of circulating air that leads to mould, not the dark alone. Don't leave the clothes there for weeks. You could put up a double clothes line in the garage as long as it doesn't interfere with anything (don't want someone driving a car into your clean bedsheets).

I bought a tumble dryer last year. It turned out to be one of the best thing I've ever bought. It saves time hauling clothes in and out of the house, you don't have to worry about rain or bird poo or faff with clothes pegs and the most important thing-the clothes turn out very soft from the tumble dryer. Nothing has ever been shrunk in it.
My dishwasher broke ages ago so I suppose I'm offsetting the dryer running costs by not using a dishwasher. I don't have a microwave and hardly use the tv so it's really worth the convenince and I'm sure clothes take longer to wear out.

The Raptor wrote: »

We have a dryer in the house which is brilliant for drying the clothes. But last week, one of the housemates was using it and i didn't get a chance to use the dryer. I do have a small clothes horse in my room but i don't like using it as I'm breathing all the nice smells in during the night and I read somewhere that its not good for you. But there is nowhere else in the house to put the clothes horse as we don't have a big enough area in any of the rooms even though it's not that big.

Can clothes be dryed in the garage? I always thought that having clothes in a dark place can have mould growing on them. So I'm not sure where the best place is.

In my room or a dark garage?

You could try using the dryer when someone else isn't using it. Given a cycle in mine on low for a load of washing is about 1hr, I doubt you couldn't have found a free slot in a 168 hr week.

Apart from an outside washing line, the most economical way to dry clothes is on a clothes horse or line inside with a dehumidifier. Drying clothes indoors without a dehumidifier will just lead to a thread asking how you clean off all the black mold because the landlord is coming round.

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

All my friends had 'a smell'. One of my friends clothes always smelt like chips.

I had a friend like that too!!!

I have a clothes horse and a tumble drier (apartment, teenchy weenchy balcony so basically no outdoor space). I usually just wash everything at the weekends, put non-tumble dryable stuff on the clothes horse in front of the radiator, even in summer when it's off, and things like socks, undies, nightclothes, towels, sheets etc go in the drier. I usually only have the drier on once a week (maybe twice if I'm washing bedclothes) so I'm not too worried about the cost of it. The noise of it, however, is another thing, haha! I usually put it on when I'm either going to bed or leaving the apartment - two things you are advised NEVER to do! But it's way too loud to have on when you're trying to watch telly or something as it's in my kitchen/living room.

My parents have a drier which they basically never use. My mother has a rotary clothes line in the back garden and hangs everything out there, dodging the showers like she has done all her life. Who remembers being told 'quick, it's raining, get the clothes in!!' while they were growing up? She also 'steeps' things before washing them, and irons sheets and towels (or used to, anyway...)

If I ever get a house with a back garden, I'd like to think I'd have a line out there so I could hang out stuff rather than have wet clothes in the house though tbh.