Tumble Dryers: how do you survive without one?

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I am hunting for flats at the moment, in the case that my flat mate and I cannot renegotiate a decent deal on our current one. However, experience and browsing a lot of ads tells me that literally nowhere comes with a tumble dryer. Having used one all my life, I cannot imagine life without one! How do you guys do it?

I am assuming that not supplying a tumble dryer with a flat is a matter of maximising space and minimizing costs for landlords, but there is nothing better than freshly washed and tumble dried bedding and towels.
 
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Hang stuff on radiators if it's winter (or a British summer!) and on a clothes rack if it's summer.

Tumble dryers cost an absolute fotune to run :(
 
Cyanide said:
Tumble dryers cost an absolute fotune to run :(
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Since when? You have weighed up the cost of running the heating for the radiators to be on all the time? What about in March/April even summer when it's rainy and you can't use the washing line and it's too hot to have the heating on. Tumble dryers are convenient.
 
jaybee said:
Since when? You have weighed up the cost of running the heating for the radiators to be on all the time? What about in March/April even summer when it's rainy and you can't use the washing line and it's too hot to have the heating on. Tumble dryers are convenient.
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3-5kwh every time you run a dry cycle, soon adds up

If it's winter the radiators will usually be on anyway so it won't cost any extra. If it's warm enough not to need radiators then a clothes rack will suffice.

I'm not a "ye-olde clothes drying" fanboy, we've got a tumble dryer and we do use it... but it's certainly not the only/cheapest way to do it!
 
'Wes said:
Buy one?
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You can get a small knights for about £100 ,when I use to have lodgers one girl moved out as she did not have access to the ironing board you buy one for about £10:confused:

I very rarely use mine just hanging washing on hangers in the bedroom with the heating on drys in about 24 hours I find the tumble dryer to noisy and it all needs ironing afterwards .
 
Just look for a flat with a good washing machine. I got a pretty nifty washing machine, if I do my washing at night, after the spin cycle put it on a clothes horse, by morning most things are dry.

I just leave it standing in the spare room, the windows always left partially open anyway, so the the damp air can get out. Dont see the need to put it on the radiators, home would start smelling of damp clothes.
 
I had one until mine broke; now I just hang stuff out to dry. I don't miss having one, except very occasionally when I've failed at getting washing done on time - or the cats just been sick on my clean bedding.
 
The problem with radiator/clothes horse drying is that it leaves everything really crusty and hard. It also means you have to have windows open for ventilation due to all the water evaporating from the wet items. Having the heating on, and windows open, in the middle of winter just isn't fun.
 
Of course buying one is an option if there is space (a scarcity at affordable prices in Central London!). It's an essential appliance for me, but is only really used for the stuff that really needs it flannels, socks, towels and bedding etc. Everything else goes on a clothes horse so it's not too expensive to run.
 
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