How do ye dry your clothes

Your Face · 20-08-2016 06:57PM

I use science.

Esel · 20-08-2016 07:03PM

I wear them - it burns calories.

Raging_Ninja · 20-08-2016 07:11PM

Drying clothes on the clothes horse indoors is like leaving eggs in the fridge, they absorb everything. The eggs will taste funny and the clothes will smell too.

I hate combination washer/driers - they are a total waste of time - takes twice as long to do a wash and dry and often you have to do 2 dry cycles. With a separate drier you can do a wash while a dry cycle is on.

Aineoil · 20-08-2016 07:24PM

I send our clothes (husband, me and son) out to the local laundrette. They are washed and dried and come back folded. Included in that are towels and bedclothes.

It costs between 15 to 20 euro for a massive bag of washing.

I would prefer to line dry our clothes, but the summer was very wet in the West this year, so I got very little dried on the line.

freshpopcorn · 20-08-2016 07:27PM

Aineoil wrote: »

I send our clothes (husband, me and son) out to the local laundrette. They are washed and dried and come back folded. Included in that are towels and bedclothes.

Do you live in Albert Square?

Aineoil · 20-08-2016 07:32PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Do you live in Albert Square?

No lol. Rural Ireland.:)

r93kaey5p2izun · 20-08-2016 08:08PM

I line dry as much as possible and use a retractable line over bath and a clothes horse if necessary. I rarely struggle to get stuff dry outside though. We have a drier but I hate it. It ruins clothes and if all four of us were to use it for everything it would have to be on all night. It's also ridiculously noisy. I only ever use it for bedclothes and occasionally towels so about once a fortnight.

For me, being forced to use crappy driers is the number one problem of living in apartments in Ireland. I will avoid at all costs. If I couldn't dry my clothes adequately without one I think I would send them out to be done and sacrifice something else to pay for it. I love seeing washing hanging out windows in European cities.

pauliebdub · 20-08-2016 08:14PM

Clothes line all of the time, unless the weather is really bad over a long period. The dryer ruins the clothes and makes ironing a nightmare.

freshpopcorn · 20-08-2016 08:52PM

Our dryer is currently out of action. So we're stuck line drying and using a clothes horse.
When the dryer was in action we used a good bit of it in Winter. We found it brilliant because when the clothes came out if and they were hot we folded them straight away and never needed to use an iron.

Aineoil · 20-08-2016 09:01PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Our dryer is currently out of action. So we're stuck line drying and using a clothes horse.
When the dryer was in action we used a good bit of it in Winter. We found it brilliant because when the clothes came out if and they were hot we folded them straight away and never needed to use an iron.

I love ironing. I iron everything towels, underwear, tea towels etc.

Esel · 20-08-2016 10:17PM

Aineoil wrote: »

I love ironing. I iron everything towels, underwear, tea towels etc.

How are you on the cooking and cleaning?

FizzleSticks · 20-08-2016 10:58PM

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Finbarr Murphy · 12-09-2016 12:12AM

If drying washing indoors get a dehumidifier. When drying laundry indoors humidity levels can jump by 30% causing an ideal breeding ground for very dangerous mould spores (Asperillus Fumigatus) plus some houses will get condensation on the windows and/or damp running down walls.

A dehumidifier keeps the humidity low so you avoid all of those problems.

A good tip is to look for a dehumidifier with a Laundry Mode. The Meaco Zambezi has a Laundry Mode that will use less power once a very dry humidity has been reached saving you electricity costs over models without this feature.

As a bonus when dehumidifiers work hard as when in Laundry Mode they generate some heat to which is thrown into the air beside the dehumidifier for this reason look for a dehumidifier with an adjustable louvre so that you can aim the warm air to blow directly over the drying laundry.

Oh typical wattage for a dehumidifier on full power is around 600w though obviously this varies from model to model.

mansize · 12-09-2016 01:46AM

batistuta9 wrote: »

Throw them over the radiators.

Clothes lines a surprisingly popular answer given the amount of rain we get

It doesn't rain that much tbf and we have the weather that suits clothes drying

mansize · 12-09-2016 01:51AM

Some people here must be rich!

I live alone (effectively) and have fairly low ESB bills - can't imagine what a tumble drier would do.

Dividing a bill by 1 doesn't make the amount payable smaller 😭

Mr. FoggPatches · 12-09-2016 02:40AM

I pay two Polish women to come in and blow on them

FanadMan · 12-09-2016 02:54AM

Washing line or if wet outside, on a clothes horse in front of the fire overnight. Also use neighbours conservatory (holiday home that we look after) - 10 minutes of sun and the place is a furnace.

But still washing line first - nothing beats the smell of clothes after a blast of atlantic wind!

Witchie · 12-09-2016 03:16AM

I hate the smell of clothes dried outside but don't use the dryer unless in emergency as it ruis clothes.

We have a large laundry room where the hot water tank is so a big clothes horse in front of it and everything is dry the next day.

endacl · 12-09-2016 03:26AM

Microwave for socks 'n' jocks.

Fathom · 12-09-2016 03:28AM

Shine: Clothes line. Rain: dryer

JupiterKid · 12-09-2016 05:16AM

Usually on an indoor clothes horse for me. I have 2 dehumidifiers that help offset any dampness that drying clothes will cause. Plus I have a huge patio door in my living room that I can open fully on dry/sunny days to air the room.

I have a washer/dryer and the drying cycle is very good for machines of these type. It can take a 75% load and dry them fully. But the items can come out creased and shrunken so I really only use the dryer for when I need to dry items quickly.

suicide_circus · 12-09-2016 05:24AM

Live in a small flat so dry clothes in the sitting room no doubt causing untold damage to by lungs.

Optimalprimerib · 12-09-2016 05:37AM

I hate these threads. They always make me feel guilty. I dry my clothes in my room. To the extent that they become my wardrobe. After 2 to 3 days, I start wearing them until the next wash is due, then I refill with new clean clothes. No dehumidifier, nothing.

Although I may buy some now

mrsdewinter · 12-09-2016 07:51AM

I live in a small apartment so the clothes horse is a permanent feature in my living room. Over the summer, it's fine as the windows are open 24/7 and the clothes dry quickly but the winters are a problem: clothes taking ages to dry, laundry piling up, so last year I started using the drier function on my washing machine, just to give the drying process a kick start.
It's not much of a solution: it means the machine is tied up for longer, holding up the laundry 'queue'.
The clothes issue is the only time I wish I lived in a house. I love seeing the washing out on the line when I visit my parents.

Shenshen · 12-09-2016 08:08AM

Outside if at all possible, otherwise on a clothes horse in the guest bedroom.

Our washing machine comes with a dryer function, but I can't stand the way the clothes smell and feel when they come out of there. Also, I don't see the point in wasting money on the electricity for it.

Speedwell · 12-09-2016 08:11AM

When I moved to Ireland, it was the first time I ever had a house without a tumble dryer. My husband and his mother had to tell me how to use a clothesline, since nobody I knew had had one, either. I like it, partly because I live in the country and I love to stand outside and take my time. I agree tumble dryers ruin clothes... that lint doesn't come from nowhere; it's friction from the clothing rubbing against each other and wearing down, and it's hard on seams and ties and pockets because of the constant pulling motion. I had a combi washer/dryer in a temporary apartment I rented for a business trip to Scotland; it wasn't worth a wooden nickel.

For the two of us we have, in addition to the clothesline, a large folding clothes horse in the spare bedroom, a folding dryer over the bath, and a wire thing that accordion-folds that we put in the TV room when we have a fire on, for towels. I got a couple of those little things that hang over the radiators, but they broke because they were in the way and we kept hitting them. Yes, it's been very wet this summer. My mother-in-law said, "Sure and you can leave the clothes out if it's just a little shower, they'll dry anyway, but if it's any amount of rain, you should bring them in". This works.

We live in a rented house. The back garden slopes toward the house (that is, it slopes up from the house to the back of the garden). So the line is stretched between a board nailed to the back fence and a pole with a cross-arm that is set a little way downslope. Because it's been so wet, and the pole is just driven into the bare ground (not set in concrete or anything), the pole has been sagging. This week it has actually started to lean significantly and looks in danger of coming down. Is this something I can ask the landlord to fix?

razorblunt · 12-09-2016 09:10AM

I've got a strong distrust of tumble dryers due to a perceived notion they'll shrink everything.
We use a clothes horse or two in the spare room with the window open. Weekend washes of bedclothes and towels go out the back garden on the line.

How do ye dry your clothes

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