Still be a lot cheaper than IKEA..

You are probably right, but you can't get breakfast, lunch & dinner @ the £ Store, not to mention all the other shopping delights!

I've got this little fella! Mine is about 30 years old, and much sturdier than the ones I see today. It dries ALL my washing.

I have the old fashioned shower (not over the bath), with the curtain running around in an L shape. I bought some chain and ran it through some conduit pipe, then put S hooks on each end. This I put on to the shower rod, so that ran diagonally across. I hung this thing from that.

It has held bedding along with everything else! Even in Winter things dry quite quickly. I never want to experience ants in my .... again !

You can dry sheets etc quite quickly in a UK bathroom in winter...... Take out a patent quick...

HA!! No no! In Australia!

We have one of these in the kitchen of our rented house. They're a fab idea and do work well but definitely not in the kitchen of someone who loves to cook! We've had to totally abandon it sadly but if I ever had a house with a utility I'd definitely have one again.

On the subject of dryers: I've never owned one (in any country) and nor did my parents when I was living at home. Have managed fine with getting stuff dry since moving back and we live in the world's smallest house with the world's smallest yard (it cannot be classed as a garden). Bedding in deepest winter was a bit of a trial at times but nothing insurmountable. I can see how families with kids might struggle with school uniform/sports kit etc in winter without a dryer though.

Here are some ideas for where there isn't the space or desire to have a tumble dryer to dry wet laundry in the UK:


http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...1962915&page=1 (2 pages)

which links to this website:

http://www.rotaire.com/

http://www.rotaire.com/video.html

I remember being shocked by the extensive use of tumble dryers when I moved to the US. The day after moving to our house I asked my next door neighbour why I'd never seen any laundry drying in any of the neighbourhood gardens (especially when we were house-hunting). She replied "oh, my mother used to dry her clothes outside" - like it was some weird, old-fashioned practice

Apparently it was/is considered unseemly and something that only the poor did (the 'horror' of drying underwear outside freaks them out, my neighbour said it would be 'disgusting') , and AFAIK drying laundry outside isn't even allowed in our neighbourhood, even though we don't have those Resident Association regulations in our suburb....

Even on the hottest days in our (and nearby towns in New Jersey) all the Americans dry their laundry indoors, although most homes do have basements. I used to put a collapsible airer up outside to dry my bras and small items, I bet the locals were horrified lol! However, the dryers are huge in the US, mine is a large LG brand which runs on gas (not the petroleum kind lol!). It's great for drying towels etc.

Here in Switzerland we have the normal European size, an electric Miele one and it's useless for drying sheets. There is a large drying rack in an indoor utility area downstairs.....there are expat Americans living in our section of the condo and I'm the only person who seems to use it.

When I had a flat in Germany 4 years ago there was a hoist in the back garden, but it was rarely used. Instead most residents in the small building preferred to dry their clothes in the basement. At least in Britain most people aren't usually afraid to dry outside, and sometimes do so in the tiniest and oddest of locations.

Have you heard of the 'right to dry' campaign?
http://www.laundrylist.org/en/progra...o-dry-campaign

I used an indoor airer to dry my clothes outside in Minnesota, and had the same problem with the wind blowing it over, until I hit on a workable solution: I used a garden fork pushed into the ground within the space of the airer, then it could only wobble about and not blow over! And I pegged the clothes in place if they were lightweight and liable to blow off the airer. This may, or may not, be viable for you.

Thank you. That is another option I can try.

My sister just told me about this:

http://www.rotaire.com

I haven't got one yet, but I expect I will.

It's amazing what's out there. Thanks for sharing.

I would be a bit concerned about using one - we've all seen what happens to brollies

Tumble dryers are not forbidden in the UK

We got a lovely big one that we had fitted in the utility room. There's no plumbing for it, so we bought a condensing dryer. You just have to empty the water out every few times you use it.

There's no way I'm hanging my smalls out for everyone to see!