In this weather where do you dry your.....

[stella]

laundry that is. When I mentioned to some Italian friends that we just hang damp laundry in the house they thought I was mad. All the damp will go in the walls and ruin it they exclaimed with horror. So how to get it dry, towels are so huge and damp

[Glutton4...]

I still put things on the washing line, unless it's raining, then I put my big items on airers in the shed, and finish them off in the tumble dryer when the smalls have come out - sod the cost!

[Bren In Pots]

We've got a 'lean too' its a bit like a conservatory but draughty outside the back door so washing gets hung up in there, anything that's needed goes in the tumble dryer.

[rustylady]

On the line unless it is raining, then just finished off indoors.

[zazen999]

Ditto - however with undies they are put in the drier - there are not enough hours in the day to keep moving them round on rads/airers to get them dry.

Only during the really cold damp wet days mind....but something's got to give!

[chris]

Do things dry outside in such cold weather in a day? or does it take a few?

Our rads are always covered with stuff, or over the banistar (sp?) etc. Annoying really!

[weekendwellies]

On a maiden in the kitchen. Its causes no more dampness than a good ol pot of stew does.

[zazen999]

Oh yeah - you just reminded me WW - I replaced my maiden in the bathroom [we have really high ceilings] and we put stuff on there on hangers....I need to paint the battens so that I can hang damp stuff on it without the wood going mouldy.

[stella]

WW I love the 'on a maiden in the kitchen' when I first read it it sounded like something from Camelot

[Jardiniere]

while your there stella ....i put a question for you on the snowing thread which was...is it snowing at your place in Italy? Does it ever snow there?
I do my drying over banister, on horse in verandah and occasionally actually on the rail round the wood burner (altho it stops the heat getting out allegedly)

[taff]

Italians are a little bit mental all round though, and all of them are hypochondriacs.
A sniffle turns into flu, you can't swim after breakfast in case you drown, mustn't have a window open or you'll get hit by a colpa di aria, so just carry on as you usually do, I expect you'll survive

[weekendwellies]

WW I love the 'on a maiden in the kitchen' when I first read it it sounded like something from Camelot

My first flat had one of those things in the kitchen that you lower from the ceiling by strings which are tied to the wall, with 4 long wooden battens, fixed to metal 'ends'. Dont know what they are called. I loved it, and really miss it to this day. Some people have them now with pots and pans hooked to them.

My maiden now is metal and freestanding, and concertinas down for storage.

[stella]

Hi Jardiniere I am not in Italy at the moment, we spend the winters in the uk. One of the reasons is that where we live the snow is so deep at times it is impossible to do anything. It is however very beautiful and the skiing is great.

[OverWyreGrower]

Towels, bedding and smalls go in the tumble drier....

Everything else is on maidens/clothes-horses in the spare room; where it can go in front of the radiator

[piskieinboots]

I'm a little odd in that I never hang things out on a washing line - in fact I don't have one in the garden, took it down to make way for plants and climbers and such.

I have a spare room which houses a clothes airer, tis warm in here so stuff dries over night - towels and sheets go in the tumble dryer.