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a small dehumidifier.
Get a big one, the tank on a small one will be full before you've dried one shirt. Some of the multi-room sized dehumidifiers even have a connection to allow you to drain into your waste pipe rather than a tank, which is even better.
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T-shirts to lay across the racks fully
How come you don't hang them on hangers? Does it misshape them or something?
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racks or retractable lines
We used to live in a flat with one of these in the bathroom. It was brilliant. The wood also absorbs moisture to aid drying.
While searching for that image I came across this:
Which is a poor application of a good concept, that I think you could improve on. Basically turn the whole room into a drying rack with full width folding down racks.Of all the forum projects that have come and gone I think I am most envious of this one.
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We have a toilet room that is not needed. It’s one of those small cupboard rooms and doesn’t even have a sink, and it’s next door to the bathroom which has a sink and toilet.
Currently clothes are dried on a clothes airer on the landing. But the airer isn’t wide enough to allow my T-shirts to lay across the racks fully so they always dry a little bit creased. Also it can take towels a couple of days to air dry. Our garden is pretty heavily shaded by trees so drying outdoors isn’t a great option- compounded by some of the wettest weather in years.
So the plan is to remove the toilet and cap the pipes (in case it ever needs to revert to being a toilet). Put in some racks or retractable lines for hanging washing on and a small dehumidifier.
This then means clothes are drying on the same floor as where clothes are stored, they can be hung up smoothly on the line until dry and then be folded. It looks like this will cost less than buying a heat pump drier though operating costs may be a little higher.
If we got a heat pump drier it would be in the bootroom which is a muddy place but we wouldn’t want a tumble drier upstairs churning around when we are trying to sleep.