PILED up dirty laundry, occupied clothes line and rain! Getting laundry dry could be hard when the sun refuses to shine but did you know that you could effectively dry clothes inside your home and save loads of money?
If you didn’t, well website greenlivingideas.com has five tips that could save your day and money!
1. Wash in the mornings so that you have the full day for clothes to dry
Drying is not ineffective at night, but it’s far more effective during the day when there’s warmth and light. Wash your clothes in the morning before work, hang them up, and by the time you get home from work, they’re likely to be ready to be put away.
2. Make sure there’s space between your clothes that are hanging
This is probably the most important thing to make sure your clothes dry. If they’re touching each other, the moisture in the clothes is not exposed to air and therefore has nowhere to go. For thicker items like jeans and towels, give them two bars on the rack so that both their two sides aren’t even touching each other. For thinner items, one bar is usually sufficient.
3. Hang your nicer clothes on hangers
Hang the hangers off the drying rack around the edges or on surrounding furniture or on the chain of a ceiling fan in a little used room. Super effective, and very convenient-when the clothes are dry, just move them to the closet-after all, they’re already on a hanger!
4. Put the drying rack in the sunniest and breeziest part of the house
Hanging clothes in a dank and humid cement basement will surely cause your clothes to take a lot longer to dry than if they’re hanging out on your balcony or next to an open window on a sunny day, exposed to sunlight. If you don’t have access to a balcony or a window you can leave open, place it in the sunniest part of the largest room you have for best results.
5. Flip
If you find your clothes are taking a little too long to dry or come up smelling a little musty, you might consider flipping clothes over on the rack, or inside out halfway through the drying process. This exposes the other surface of the clothes to the air and helps them dry much more quickly. I’ve never found this necessary, but if you have some extra time during the day, it can’t hurt.