Clothes horses
Part of the joy of living in rented accommodation. Landlords usually provide washing machines, even if they sometimes date back to the 1980s and smell like a particularly foetid sewer. My first flat was too small for a washing machine so I had the tedium of having to go to a laundrette with a handful of coins a couple of times a week. When I moved to a different flat it did have a washing machine but it didn't have any way of drying clothes. It was on the second floor so I couldn't use a washing line in the garden and it had storage heaters which weren't really suitable for putting clothes on. A clothes horse sounds like the ideal solution: a rack you can fit a full load of damp washing on to dry. What they don't tell you is that it can take a couple of days for the clothes to dry so they end up smelling slightly damp, and they end up stiff as a board with creases in strange places. As soon as I could afford it I bought a tumble drier.
(mhoulden, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 21:31, 2 replies)

What about using in conjunction with a dehumidifyer?
I find aiming one at the clothes horse speeds drying somewhat.

(I keep meaning to research the comparitive energy use between, say, and hour of tumble-drying and several hours of dehumidfying. It feels like it *should* be less, but is it really?)
( The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:52, closed)

I agree
But my girlfriend moved in last year and pretty much nixed the tumble dryer as not green and too expensive, so now my house smells once again of damp fabric. And (sadly) it isn't always her gusset.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 16:06, closed)