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Seraph ↓

Mon, Jun 04 2007, 1:34 am

If any of you dry your laundry on a drying rack, how do you dry table cloths and sheets- how to do you fit them on so that they're not touching the ground? Are you only able to dry one sheet at a time, or use a whole bunch of drying racks?

BinahYeteirah ↓

Mon, Jun 04 2007, 1:43 am

Right now I use an outdoor clothesline, but I have relied on drying racks in the past. What I would usually do with tablecloths and sheets is to completely abandon the drying rack and just drape the laundry over something around the house. For example, I have put a sheet over the backs of two chairs. On another occasion I used the bookcases to dry large items. It's not the most aesthetically pleasing and it sometimes gets in the way, but at least sheets dry quickly.

↑ Seraph

Mon, Jun 04 2007, 2:03 am

BinahYeteirah wrote:

What do you do if you want to dry clothes outside but don't have an outdoor clothesline?

↑ BinahYeteirah ↓

Mon, Jun 04 2007, 2:18 am

Umm, get one? Just kidding, lol.

Do you have any railings that you can hang things over? You can easily make a clothesline with some string strung between almost any two things. In the past, it was common for people to hang laundry on bushes, trees, and grass. Obviously, you have to be careful to choose a place where the sheets won't get dirty. Fences? Otherwise, I guess you can only dry one sheet per drying rack. I guess you just have a small balcony, but maybe if you are creative you can figure out a way to hang things. Here a lot of people have clotheslines that are specially built to hang off of balconies.

Marion

Mon, Jun 04 2007, 2:30 am

I use a drying rack. Basically, for tablecloths and flat sheets I fold them in 4 and drape them over 1 "string". For fitted sheets I fold them in half (tuck the pockets at each end into each other), then fold the side pieces over (it works out about the same size as folding in quarters), then drape them over 1 "string". It doesn't take so long to dry, and they come out uncreased (except for the fold lines), and then it takes me 1/2 as long to fold them after, and I've already found those missing socks.

↑ BinahYeteirah

Mon, Jun 04 2007, 3:16 am

That sounds smart.

chen

Mon, Jun 04 2007, 6:33 am

You fold them till they fit the rack. In winter if you have good heating and put the rack near the heat source (radiator or air vent only, NOT space heater, electric heater or kerosene stove!) it dries quickly enough. If your summers are humid, though, the stuff can take literally days to dry, especially if the fabric is heavy. Then you have to unfold and refold to expose the damp inner portions so that they can dry. The trick is not to overload the rack so that there is plenty of exposure to air. Crowded laundry in humid conditions will not dry and will develop an unpleasant mildewy smell.

chocolate moose

Mon, Jun 04 2007, 7:19 am

you can put them over a door or over a table to dry.

dmum

Tue, Jun 05 2007, 1:37 pm

when we lived in israel I used to "make tents" in my salon ie set up 2 chairs, hang one end on one chair and other end on the other... otherwise it would take forever for the linen to dry, espec in winter! this way it always dried that same day - I just had to make sure not to invite anyone over bc no room to move with all my linen hung across the room (and espec not when it was white linen Wink

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