Fewer and fewer people are building basements under their houses.
Many prefer a separate utility room on the upper floor, where laundry is done – this room is usually limited to just a few square meters.
Most have to make do with a technical room of about 6 sqm (approximately 65 sq ft) – the typical size offered by most house builders – where there is barely enough space for one or two shelves plus a washing machine. The rest of the house is also tightly planned.
How do you manage your laundry drying? Especially in households with children, I think you really have to juggle things, right?
Many prefer a separate utility room on the upper floor, where laundry is done – this room is usually limited to just a few square meters.
Most have to make do with a technical room of about 6 sqm (approximately 65 sq ft) – the typical size offered by most house builders – where there is barely enough space for one or two shelves plus a washing machine. The rest of the house is also tightly planned.
How do you manage your laundry drying? Especially in households with children, I think you really have to juggle things, right?
Häuslebau3r28 Oct 2016 09:15As I see it, this often depends on user habits and the initial situation.
In the summer, whenever possible, laundry is dried outdoors on the rotary clothesline, or for quick items, the dryer is also used. In a household of four people or more with young children, I believe relying solely on line drying is not practical.
In my opinion, drying laundry in the basement during winter months would take too long.
We do both, depending on the need. Currently, in our household of five, we use both the dryer and the clothesline. However, I would be reluctant to give up the dryer.
In the summer, whenever possible, laundry is dried outdoors on the rotary clothesline, or for quick items, the dryer is also used. In a household of four people or more with young children, I believe relying solely on line drying is not practical.
In my opinion, drying laundry in the basement during winter months would take too long.
We do both, depending on the need. Currently, in our household of five, we use both the dryer and the clothesline. However, I would be reluctant to give up the dryer.
Häuslebau3r schrieb:
In my opinion, drying in the basement during the winter months would take too longWe currently have a gas heating system in our rental house. The utility room (in the basement) where it is located is by far the warmest room in the entire house. It stays that way regardless of the outdoor conditions.
Bedding, dish towels, cleaning cloths, burp cloths, and changing table covers go in the tumble dryer.
Clothing only if it needs to dry quickly.
Clothes are hung on a drying rack in the utility room or outside on the rotary dryer. Clothes with carrot, sweet potato, and pumpkin stains are always hung in the sun because of the stains. In winter, of course, this takes longer.
Clothing only if it needs to dry quickly.
Clothes are hung on a drying rack in the utility room or outside on the rotary dryer. Clothes with carrot, sweet potato, and pumpkin stains are always hung in the sun because of the stains. In winter, of course, this takes longer.
Hirscherlo13 Dec 2016 13:00I fully agree, and for me, that is enough too. As long as there isn't a household of five people doing laundry, I think a clothesline is sufficient!
I’m just glad we have a clothes dryer.
Now that our child’s phase of wet pants is mostly over, this weekend they had some thoughts about eating in bed. So everything, including pillows, blankets, bed linen, and stuffed animals, went into the washing machine and then the dryer, and was ready for use again by the next day’s afternoon nap.
We’ve now stopped using diapers at night for the first few days, so we still expect the occasional little accident there as well.
Now that our child’s phase of wet pants is mostly over, this weekend they had some thoughts about eating in bed. So everything, including pillows, blankets, bed linen, and stuffed animals, went into the washing machine and then the dryer, and was ready for use again by the next day’s afternoon nap.
We’ve now stopped using diapers at night for the first few days, so we still expect the occasional little accident there as well.
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Peanuts7415 Dec 2016 07:19Everything that can go in the dryer, summer and winter. The fact that you have to iron less or not at all almost compensates for the energy used by the (heat pump) dryer, and you don’t have laundry hanging everywhere all the time...
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