An Idea to save on electricity.

**RenieB** · 09-23-2008, 03:52 PM

I have been wishing to reduce the use of my dryer and since I have physical limitations using a clothes line is out of the question. I have a rather large dryer rack, one of the wooden fold up things, that I really don't have a place to use it. Well, it hit me today that I do have the perfect place for. DH and I are both disabled and we have a large walk in shower with a seat. Why not put my clothes rack there when not showering. I mentioned it to dh and he agreed that would be the perfect place. If we leave the fan on it would dry the clothes even quicker. Once in awhile I get a light bulb off in my head. Wish it were more often.

RenieB

**larabelle** · 09-23-2008, 05:27 PM

Good Idea!!! I am like you I also wish I would get those light bulbs to come on a little more frequently!!!

**rebecca** · 09-23-2008, 06:44 PM

Another idea would to hang them up in your closet. I do this when I run out of room on my drying rack.

**StaceyS** · 09-23-2008, 08:15 PM

I've heard of people using the small ones in the tub for sweaters and such, so your idea should be perfect. As long as you can keep the humidity down. My DBF has a large shower only stall, but no fan. He has problems with mold if you don't get the ventilation just right.

**voodidit** · 09-23-2008, 08:22 PM

Great idea!

**rosey7415** · 09-28-2008, 04:30 PM

i used to do this! when i was a very poor single parent i had a space heater in my apartment. i had a washer, but no dryer. i had 3 racks, one in my son's bedroom, the shower, and my bedroom. in the winter when i had the space heater on i would dry stuff on that also.( NOT A SAFE IDEA.) of course i was right there and would turn the stuff. i also put things on hangers on the door frames. i did this all at once. then the folding racks could be put away under the beds. desperate times called for desperate measures. glad that that is behind me.

**Lady_V** · 09-28-2008, 05:34 PM

The wooden drying racks are a wonderful invention. I have also seen a wall mounted rack that would also work great because you flip it up when you need it and down when you don't.

**mikandmari** · 10-02-2008, 05:56 AM

How much electricity does the bathroom fan use? This is an honest question, I really don't know. Is it less than running the dryer.... considering it will take longer to dry in the bathroom?

In the winter, when I can't hang clothes outside, I just put the wooden dryer rack right in the dining room. When the laundry is finished (hahaha -- never) or when company is coming over, I fold it up and lean it on the wall. It works pretty well. We have radiators for heat, so I often hang stuff over the radiators.

**Edna_E** · 10-06-2008, 11:20 PM

In the winter I put mine where the heater vent in the living room blows on it and leave it there all night - that way my clothes are dry in the morning, and I tend to wash things in the evening after work.

**Bournecrazy** · 10-07-2008, 04:59 AM

mine goes in the kitchen, opposite the oven, its the only space for it but it dries so quick especially when the oven is one and the room is warm. when i do sheets and bed covers i hang it on the banister for the stairs that dries well too.

**Kaos Kitty** · 10-07-2008, 08:54 AM

We hang all our laundry (except socks and underwear) on coat hangers, then hang the them on the top edge of bedroom and bathroom doors. On laundry day it is like a clothes forest (I have to duck through fresh scented laundry to get into a room). They're usually all dry with in 24 hours. We just make sure to keep at least a hand-span between hangers for air circulation.

**joyofsix** · 10-07-2008, 09:00 AM

Good idea. I leave ours out at the end of the living room. I figure I'm humidifying the air and drying the clothes. I also hang stuff on hangers on door frames as others have said.

**JENROY** · 10-07-2008, 09:48 AM

I installed a rod in my shed. I hang the clothes on hangers and open the window and the door and let the breeze dry everything.

**CristiK** · 10-07-2008, 12:32 PM

We have a set of rear stairs that we do not use anymore. I am going to put removable wood rods going up the stairs. Hang a set at the top, put on another bar and fill it on so on down the stairs then when they are dry I will start removing them from upstairs and work my way down. That starecase always has excess heat in it so that should help with drying them.

**Missy** · 10-07-2008, 12:47 PM

my laundry room has a doorway from the kitchen. the other end of the laundry room has a doorway form the laundry room into the master bath. the doors are a straight across from each other. I took eyebolts and put one in the upper corner of each doorway. then i took clothesline and strung it. eyebolt to eyebolt. I have two eight foot long clotheslines in the laundry room. then in each doorway i got small tension rods and put them way up high in the doorway (because my doorframe didn't have a lip to hang a hanger) because i have another access to the bathroom, i have one i can put mid way up the bathroom doorway too. the upper ones i screwed in place. they ain't goin nowhere. then in the bathroom itself i have a folding drying rack i set plum square over the heat vent. and i have rods over the kids bath tub enclosure and in the master shower stall i can hang clothesfrom too.