Tuesday 10 February 2015

Drying room

We have high pressure settled over us at present and that is bringing us glorious sunshine!  It streams in the window of this south facing spare room, and we are drying the laundry up there at the moment, on an assortment of airers.  The window is open ever so slightly, and so is the bathroom window next door.  That allows for a good airflow and prevents any problems with condensation.


So this is what the room looks like in the sun...


and this is with the washing in situ. The FH made the two wooden airers years ao and the little one in the middle is an Argos investment.  I am bitterly regretting letting the EFG take the other one of those to Aberdeen, and I should have just given her some cash to buy one when she arrived.  They are extremely useful, and no longer on sale, sadly.  Once I had mastered the art of pegging items onto the little airer as if it were a washing line, I could hang much more up. Between them, the three airers will hold two loads of washing.

Items dry under this arrangement very quickly.  Towels are folded up and put straight into the linen cupboard in the corner of the room, and items that don't require ironing are folded and put into the airing cupboard. Ironing is put into a basket which lives on the bed as it dries and then ironed when I have a basket load.  

Soon the weather will warm up, and I will progress to hanging out in the verandah.  I confess to be desperately looking forward to spring and summer days when I can put the laundry out on the proper outside washing line and it will come in, beautifully scented with fresh air!  

Not a tumble drier in sight and quite a saving on the electricity by making use of the solar power of the sun.  I would always recommend a south-facing house - we rejected many in our last search for a house because of their aspect!

6 comments:

Bridget said...

No tumble dryer here either, I refuse to buy one, my kitchen is quite big and I put the airer in the sunlight as it streams through the window and it dries quite quickly. The dogs always lay in the sunlight patches in the kitchen too!

thrift deluxe said...

Our house is south west facing and I agree with you, as long as the sun is out it's ideal. Even though it was cold outside the other day the the living room was over 25 degrees because it was sunny. Fantastic.

SusanM said...

I can't manage without a tumble dryer up here in the north of Scotland in winter. We've had 3 months of freezing conditions almost every day and, unless it's windy, there's no chance of getting washing dry. I can't dry it in the house because it seems to cause mould and damp and I have two asthmatics in the house. The only two rooms which sometimes get sunny enough to dry washing in are bedrooms we sleep in. A friend of mine was drying her washing inside the house every day and she's had to throw her carpet out due to mould underneath it. She also has given in and bought a tumble dryer.

Morgan said...

@SusanM - I know what you mean. When we lived in Cupar we were blessed with a large bathroom where I had two pulleys on which to dry the laundry in the winter. With the window open in there, the washing soon dried, but it was a very fortunate arrangement and one I miss now!

Cheapchick said...

I regularly drape things in our laundry room to hang to dry but it is against our town's bylaw to have laundry hanging outside. My laundry room has no windows so I do what I can in a very wet climate. That includes wearing things multiple times before washings.

Gill - That British Woman said...

we're not allowed to hang out our laundry here, so a dryer is a must.