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Drying the washing.

Lorcan

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I feel like I should be making a joke with that title. Oh well.

Last year this wasn't an issue because the goblins were in the study and not my bedroom, but that has changed. The weather's shifting too. Using the clothes horse downstairs is almost pointless, it's too cold down there to dry it properly and it can take almost a full week (according to experience last year). The only place really suitable upstairs, with room, is my bedroom. So, as ridiculous as it sounds, should I be doing anything else to minimise issues for them? Damp clothes are damp clothes, and they can make the room damp, but I'm not sure what my options should be. Other than someone getting their backsides in gear and replacing the windows, door, boiler, and dreams are great, but they're not gonna happen by tonight, lol.
 
It's not a good idea to dry them in the same room. I'd be worried about respiratory problems to be honest, it does make the room damp.
I've just bought a dehumidifier, placed next to the clothes horse it dried the fleece in less than an hour when I tried it this week. I'm only going to use it if we have days of rain, I prefer line drying but sometimes needs must! Much cheaper than a tumble dryer to run but not much help to you for tonight.
 
I'm keeping an eye to the humidity (the room thermometer has a humidity sensor), but they'll never get dried downstairs unfortunately. Not quick enough, anyway. I've a mind to shift it into the hall overnight and hope I don't collide with it in a hurry, but it's not practical in the daytime. I don't even currently have the line, I need to reseat the pole outdoors because apparently it "got in the way" when they cleared the garden. He almost threw it out twice too, like how many times do you need me to tell you I HAVE THE LINE DON'T PUT THE POLE IN THE BIN. Apparently because the line wasn't in the pole...

Meh. I'll move it into the bathroom, I think. Means I can't access the bathroom sink and there's no window so it'll get damp, but needs must.
 
We dry all our washing right next to the cage, it’s in our living room but we physically do not have space anywhere else to dry it, we do have a plug in airer which helps for the winter. I’ve never even thought about them having issues to be honest. You can get those little dehumidifier boxes that will help collect moisture.
 
The next wash won't be an issue, I made the mistake of needing underwear and not realising I was almost out of clean ones :oops: less of a rush next time round.
 
Since we had cavity wall insulation fitted the north side of this house gets damp, the walls go black in winter. Insulation was one of the worst things we've ever had done, my partners threatening to get it removed. I try to avoid drying washing indoors and for most of the winter I can dry it in the greenhouse. It's when the humidity in the air is too high it needs to be dried in doors. I found a lovely medium size dehumidifier, I've been looking for one like this for years. I'm really hoping it will help with the washing and keep the house clear of mould.
 
Hopefully when the dehumidifier's arrived I should be better off. There's no room for a dryer in the house at all and last year I mostly dried it in my room, and then in the living room when the weather warmed up. It's the sort of thing if I'd moved the goblins earlier in the year it would've occurred to me, but alas, I did not. And it's not like it's their fault, I don't want to make life awkward for them either.

Thankfully no mould. The last flat had the leaky ceiling and dodgy plaster, the flat before had a black mould problem all around the walls next to the boiler. I do seem to have good luck with my housing options, don't I?
 
When we lived in a flat, we dried all our washing in a big cupboard off the hall, where we kept a dehumidifier. To start with we ran the dehumidifier constantly, but after a while the cupboard was so dry that the dehumidifier only had to run part time. We could dry washing in there practically overnight!

If you have a small space that would fit a clothes horse and a dehumidifier, you could try something similar.
 
Sadly not - I know it's a house but spaces are weird. The living room is open plan, the kitchen's a tiny galley kitchen, and upstairs you've got the bedroom (where the goblins are), the study (which doesn't have the space for the airer because the study takes "box room" status very literally) and the bathroom which is also tiny. Not original to the house so far as I can tell but along the long wall you've literally got the bath, the toilet right at the end of the bath, and a sink at the other (at the taps) end. So it's wide enough to accommodate a bath and sink, and long enough to accommodate a bath and toilet. The airer can be slid into there but then you lose access to the sink entirely.
 
Tricky. And annoying. I'm not sure what to suggest. I feel like I've seen sort of tent things for drying washing in those weird catalogues but I'm not sure how those work.
 
I've thought about heated ones before, and I know @eileen mentioned it too, but for me it's like heated blankets, and I don't trust myself not to forget it's there and switched on. Normally I just dry them in the living room and if I have visitors it gets moved into the kitchen, but it dries pretty slowly because of the lack of heat, and I couldn't afford the lack of underwear lol.

@Betsy those arrived this morning, sorry I'm late mentioning it but it's been a very odd day and I've been asleep for most of it, lol. I'm going to see about setting it up with the airer in the bathroom - It should dry faster in there and hopefully not be in the way for too long. That'll give me the time to find a more permanent solution over the winter.
 
That's a thought, the one I currently have would probably fit in the tub. I'll have to see how it balances when in there later but if it's in there it's out of the way and hooray, I get a sink back lol.
 
Lorcan said:
This is what I'm currently using.
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I have a couple of that same type of washing line. Husband also bought a few years ago a cheap retractable washing line (same thing as this one Brabantia Retractable Indoor Washing Line - White Amazon.co.uk ) so I can hang clothes in the spare bedroom. Our spare room is mainly our storage, mini gym and laundry area. 😂

We have quite a big dehumidifier in the spare room with the laundry function. If it's on overnight, all the washing that day is usually dry the next day. Those washing were there since Monday, I was just lazy to remove them, not until the next washing which is tomorrow. 😂
 

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Yeah my preference is 7-8 t-shirts, 8 sets of underwear and 8 pairs of socks, means less washing for me in the long run. Anything bulker (jeans, towels) gets thrown over a door to dry there instead, lol. I'm iffy on the retractable line (although it'd be great if I could make it work) because...nowhere to put it still. One could go here in the study, but the PC's in here, and the tv. From one wall to the other there's a shelving unit in the way, and from the other pair of walls, the window's in the way and it's big, there's no real working around it either.

I didn't half move into an awkward house, lol.
 
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