How and where to dry clothes in an apartment

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Three hundred kilograms of linen are washed by the average Russian hostess in a year. With this incredible number of shirts, dresses, pants, shorts, socks and T-shirts, one could lay out on the asphalt a gigantic question "And where to dry ?!" - in houses without balconies or in apartments with a shortage of free space. But inventive landlords still manage somehow!

Outsider Drying

Our grandmothers dried clothes on strings in the yards. Therefore, if you do not have the opportunity to place the washed things inside the room, hang them out for everyone to see. Previously, it was generally considered a good tradition to evaluate a young housewife according to the quality of the wash. The neighbors studied the mountains of nappies, sliders and sheets, looking for "defects": spots, signs of shedding, lack of bleaching.

Is this openness not for you? Well, times have changed, and those who have resorted to the above option will rather have to worry not about excessive curiosity from the locals, but about the unhealthy attention of strangers. Pulling things off the rope on the street is as easy as shelling pears! So get ready for watch watches and sprints.

If you do not have the opportunity to place the washed things inside the room, hang them out for all to see.

However, there is an alternative: the construction outside the window. You can't hang out a lot, but under personal control. True, along the way you will have to become an amateur ornithologist, tracking the flight habits of birds, so that these smaller brothers do not leave their "mark in the history" of drying your clothes!

Insider drying in a simple way

Lovers of efficiency without complexity will appreciate the clamshell dryer. This design is gaining more and more popularity every year. Moreover, it is actively used even by those who have balconies or loggias at their disposal, but which for some reason are not used for household needs. The first question that arises when looking at the compact know-how is: "How much will fit here?" Multiple use experiences have proven that there is enough space for a standard laundry. Supporters of global washing, drying and ironing will have to reconsider their habits and resort to a more gentle way of organizing business processes and portioned "processing" of linen.

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A similar option was invented for the bathroom. The triangle dryer is installed directly into the shower tray or on the bottom of the jacuzzi. The main advantage of this method is that you can not wring out the laundry too carefully: water will still drip not on the floor, but in the places adapted for this. In addition, it has long been proven that fumes from washed powder and not completely washed laundry are harmful to health. You inhale about twenty-five types of harmful volatile compounds, two of which are the most dangerous carcinogens: acetaldehyde and benzene. And by placing laundry in the bathroom behind a closed door and with built-in ventilation, you will avoid prolonged contact with potentially hazardous substances.

In winter, you can use a special "canopy" for the batteries. Of course, you cannot hang many things on one such structure, but if you buy a copy for each heating device, you can dry a whole mountain of clothes.

Insider drying: high-tech option

With the washing machine, we have been on the "you" for a long time. And what kind of animal is a drying machine? Imagine: cold, winter, a mountain of wet jackets, sweaters, warm pants. For a minimum of three to four days, all of this will be dangling on the ropes in an attempt to dry out. Moreover, no one guarantees that the same down jackets, for example, will not acquire some completely new lumpy-bumpy appearance and the original smell of a chicken coop. Did you live until the summer? It dries in a moment, the main thing is to remove it on time. Did not have time? You will get faded or, at best, just dry clothes, which cannot be ironed out later.

Dryer owners do not face these problems! I reloaded it from the washing machine to the next machine - and you're done. You don't even need to iron if you have chosen a suitable program! True, you will need free space, but after all, it is easier to find a 60x60 centimeters section than a place for 8-10 meters of rope. In addition, there are special brackets that allow you to place tumble dryers over washing machines.

I reloaded it from the washing machine to the next machine - and you're done. You don't even need to iron if you have chosen a suitable program!

Still unable to allocate free space? There are two-in-one options: washing machines with a drying function. In any case, this method of bringing the linen to the "desired condition" is the most convenient. There are only two downsides. The first and most obvious is the high cost: the device itself is not cheap, and electricity is required for drying decently. The second minus is not so obvious - some experts recommend drying the laundry in the traditional way from time to time, since with the constant use of electric dryers, its service life is reduced.

Maison avec un balcon

This drying method is suitable for the happy owners of loggias, balconies and other protruding and not very constructive features of the house. It would seem, what options can there be? Pull the ropes under the ceiling and you're done! But manufacturers do not sleep and offer more and more new solutions in the struggle for our convenience. You no longer need to reach out on tiptoe to the cherished strings: special mechanisms lower and raise kilograms of linen to the desired height. These wonderful devices are called - lift-dryers. There are ceiling and wall-mounted, so holes for fasteners can be poked wherever it is convenient. You can hang 20-30 kg of things on such a structure!

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There are also "accordions" - steel structures designed for heavy laundry. They are hung on the wall and pulled apart when necessary. Often, such cantilever dryers are used on small balconies. They are comfortable and unobtrusive when folded. This option is suitable for those who do not want to spoil the interior with bulky structures.

It turns out that in matters of drying clothes, not everything is as transparent as it seemed at first glance. There are many new ways that some of us have only heard of or even imagined they exist. It's time to put them to the test! Choose the right option based on our advice and based on your capabilities and needs.