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Saturday 20 August 2022

Drying Washing Outdoors - Come Rain, Come Shine

Among the highest electricity-consuming gadgets in any home is the tumble dryer.  Ours is a condensing type which needs no outside flue but it does rely on condensation to extract water from fabrics and that too gobbles up energy.

Regardless of energy consumption clothes dried in the wind outdoors somehow seem fresher don't they?

Well we already had two ways to let clothes dry besides the tumble dryer - a conventional outdoor clothes line which is concealed from public view by being run along the path at the back of the new extension and one of those lovely old-fashioned ceiling mounted drying racks in the utility room.  Here's the conventional outdoor line, exceedingly well hidden away:
















Lack of ceiling height made the drying rack something of a visual clutter, especially when loaded in the already cluttered utility room - next on the agenda for a thorough sort-out.  Then inspiration struck.  Why not relocate that drying rack in the ample 'outdoor' space below the new extension's lounge?   There it would be hidden away, especially when unloaded.  Though a totally dry area it is in effect outdoors and well ventilated.   Today we bit that bullet and re-hung it 'outdoors but in the dry'.






































A very good use for an otherwise wasted space which now houses the Yanmar diesel tractor too!





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