Woman who’s never had a tumble dryer shares free hack to dry laundry quickly – & it leaves your house ‘smelling great’
TRYING to dry your clothes when it’s cold and raining is no easy task.
Most of us are avoiding putting the pricey tumble dryer leaving many with little option but to have damp clothes hanging around their houses for days.
And one woman who wanted to prepare for the cold weather took to social media to ask for the best tips and tricks to get her through her laundry.
She wrote: “How is everyone planning on drying their washing this winter?
“With rising energy costs and 2 children I can’t afford to run the tumble dryer and plan on not having the radiators on (except the living room).
“I have a clothes horse but it holds maybe one wash and takes an entire day to dry.
“Any ideas?”
The homeowner’s post on the Facebook group, Mrs Hinch Cleaning Tips, quickly went viral with thousands of people liking it and hundreds of comments.
Fans of the cleanfluencer came out in droves to share their top laundry hacks to save you money.
Many agreed that hanging your washing indoors was the best way to get clothes dry quickly – but they had a few extra tricks up their sleeves.
One wrote: “Use these and hang the clothes on hangers to dry…”
In the comment, the cleaning fan attached a picture of an over the door ironing hook which allows you to hang multiple clothing items on door frames.
Not only will this mean there’s more room for the clothes to air out and dry far quicker – it also means you’ll catch a waft of your fresh laundry around your home.
You can purchase the door frame hooks for as little as £4.95 on Amazon.
She continued: “Put things near the oven when cooking, hang on (the) bathroom shower rail… and try to peg out for a bit on the line to air out and reduce indoor drying time.”
Another savvy homeowner suggested: “I hang everything on hangers straight out of washing machine then use all my curtain rails mostly upstairs as any warm air in house will rise, towels and bedding go over door tops and I’ve got little hangy things for the socks and pants….. never had a tumble dryer.”
“I have a pulley line in my utility room, hang everything on coat hangers then hang on the pulley,” another commented.
“You can fit more on, and air circulates better around the clothes.”
If you have a large family, it might be difficult finding space to air dry all of your clothes.
However, a dehumidifier can get a load dry in just a couple of hours and it costs way cheaper than running the tumble dryer.
When it comes to cost, running a dehumidifier costs around 4p an hour – compared to 65p to £1.76 for a tumble dryer.
Chris Michael, managing director of Meaco, added: “Using a dehumidifier to dry laundry is more cost-effective than a tumble dryer and could save you as much as 95p when drying a load of washing*.”
But to make it even more effective, you should turn your dehumidifier into laundry mode which specialises in pulling moisture form clothes.
*Based on a dehumidifier that can extract up to 12 litres a day and runs at 0.157 kWh, washing drying within six hours (length of a Meaco dehumidifier’s laundry mode), and the average tumble dryer using roughly 4.5kWh per cycle. Calculations are based on the price of 27p per kWh (October 2023).
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