how to dry clothes faster
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I live in a small 1 bedroom flat. I have storage heaters (which are pish) and no garden to dry my clothes.
In the summer I normally hang them up on the clothes horse and open a window. After a few hours they are dry. It now being almost winter I don’t want to leave all my windows open and be freezing at nights.
I now put my clothes horse right next to my storage heater and crank that up to 11 but its taking almost 3 days to dry some items.
Now I got thinking I have a desk fan, if I placed it right in line with my clothes would this help? Simulate a slight breeze.
Is there any thing else I could do?
And no, not enough space for a tumble dryer.
In the summer I normally hang them up on the clothes horse and open a window. After a few hours they are dry. It now being almost winter I don’t want to leave all my windows open and be freezing at nights.
I now put my clothes horse right next to my storage heater and crank that up to 11 but its taking almost 3 days to dry some items.
Now I got thinking I have a desk fan, if I placed it right in line with my clothes would this help? Simulate a slight breeze.
Is there any thing else I could do?
And no, not enough space for a tumble dryer.
A ceiling-mounted Clothes Maid. The most useful household gadget ever, not least because it keeps laundry out of sight rather than having it draped everywhere.
Buy a cheap electric convection heater and place that underneath if you want to dry stuff faster.
Buy a cheap electric convection heater and place that underneath if you want to dry stuff faster.
You need a de-humidifier.
Any other things you do to dry your clothes in a sealed flat will eventually cause further problems. With the window open, the water went out the window as water vapour.
With it closed, it will have to go somewhere. The de-humidifier will mean it can go down the plug hole.
Any other things you do to dry your clothes in a sealed flat will eventually cause further problems. With the window open, the water went out the window as water vapour.
With it closed, it will have to go somewhere. The de-humidifier will mean it can go down the plug hole.
I think a fan would be good, find stuff dries as the moist air is taken away. If your flat is a bit damp you could get a dehumidifier, this would help a lot. I hear we are having a very cold winter, this will probably be good as all the moisture will remain frozen, I used to live in Korea where they have proper winters and clothes dried quicker in a room with ice on the windows than summer.
louiebaby said:
You need a de-humidifier.
Yup. You can get a "drying tent" that fits over a clothes horse and you stick the dehumidifier in there and it drys the clothes very quicklyhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Drying-tent-Ebac-2000-Dehu...
louiebaby said:
You need a de-humidifier.
Any other things you do to dry your clothes in a sealed flat will eventually cause further problems. With the window open, the water went out the window as water vapour.
With it closed, it will have to go somewhere. The de-humidifier will mean it can go down the plug hole.
This, buy a decent one though. Any other things you do to dry your clothes in a sealed flat will eventually cause further problems. With the window open, the water went out the window as water vapour.
With it closed, it will have to go somewhere. The de-humidifier will mean it can go down the plug hole.
Huntsman said:
We just park the dehumidifier next to the clothes horse.
During the winter my wife wants the dehumidifier for launcdry purposes and I want it for the boat cabin, bloody thing has been back and forth dozens of times.
I've never tried it, but you could use cat litter in the boat, and bring it home to dry it out on the radiator, next to the de-humidifier. Maybe having two large shallow tupperwares, and swapping them over each time you visit the boat would help?During the winter my wife wants the dehumidifier for launcdry purposes and I want it for the boat cabin, bloody thing has been back and forth dozens of times.
Just a thought.
louiebaby said:
Huntsman said:
We just park the dehumidifier next to the clothes horse.
During the winter my wife wants the dehumidifier for launcdry purposes and I want it for the boat cabin, bloody thing has been back and forth dozens of times.
I've never tried it, but you could use cat litter in the boat, and bring it home to dry it out on the radiator, next to the de-humidifier. Maybe having two large shallow tupperwares, and swapping them over each time you visit the boat would help?During the winter my wife wants the dehumidifier for launcdry purposes and I want it for the boat cabin, bloody thing has been back and forth dozens of times.
Just a thought.
Mobile Chicane said:
A ceiling-mounted Clothes Maid. The most useful household gadget ever, not least because it keeps laundry out of sight rather than having it draped everywhere.
This. ^^^Amazing that the victorians invented something that has yet to be surpassed by modern technology yet. A superb invention (and even better when hung over a stairwell, although I appreciate that for the OP this probably isn't possible.)
Oli.
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