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    Posted: 06 May 2008 at 12:11pm
arghh I am feeling rather frustrated..lol stupid weather takes ages for our clothes to dry.

we dont have a dryer or even a garage just a carport and even hanging them under there wont get them dry quickly if the weather is not too good.

at the moment I have about 3 loads of washing waiting to be hung out plus about 2-3 loads on the line which still is not dry.

I just sent DH an email saying that I think it is about time we bought a dryer. lets hope he sees reason enough for us to get one.

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:( it sounds like it..otherwise will be a long winter!
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I have just got DH to bring our dryer up from the shed. We have never used it in this house - but with baby clothes, it is hard to keep up!!

Of course, will be intersting to see the impact on our power bill...
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As long as you keep on top of your bills (pay a little each week if you can) it's actually not too bad Bel

We don't usually use ours but with the weather being cruddy we use it at least twice a day lately...
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the dryer (at least for us) doesnt make a difference to the power bill..we used it heaps last month and bill still 110ish..
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yeah I have heard that new dryers are more energy efficient that older ones and we would want to get a new one cause of warrantees etc.

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Hopefully that bill wasn't an estimate KA - sometimes our bill is an estimate and then other times it's taken from an actual reading, so if the estimate is less that what we used then we end up paying the difference the next time
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it used to be now we have a smart meter..whatever that is so its always an actual read.
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I am in the same boat and I have a garage but still end up drying in dryer as there is no wind flow. Don't you just love Hamilton!!!

Do you have dehumidifier? My Aunty dries her stuff inside in front of that.
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yeah we do but I think it would take age using one and our lounge would look like a chinese laundry..lol

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yeah I know ours does half the time now anyway cause I fill up the garage and then stick stuff inside.
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ooh he just replied to my email and he said

"mebbe" lol

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We used our dehumidifier for a while as we had it on anyway. It worked great. I have the same issue...(now we have a HRV and don't use the dehumidifier) I put our laundry on clothes racks and put them in front of our ranchslider where they get the morning sun. Sometimes if it's not raining, I'll open the window and let some air in to help.
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I dry some stuff in our hot water cupboard. I only do things we will need over the next day or so cause it's pretty tiny lol.
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Do you have a hot water cupboard. I hang washing out first thing in morning, then make sure to get it in around 3pm. It then gets folded and put in the hot water cupboard until the next days load needs to go in.
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we do but it is used for our towels so it is really our linen cupboard..

with any luck we will be making a trip to buy a dryer this weekend :)

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Ugh I hate the chinese laundry look but it was a necessity all last winter.  We don't have a drier either, and wouldn't have anywhere to put one if we did.  This year our lounge is smaller and it'd be impossible to dry a couple of loads, so DH built a wooden clothes rack that sits up by the ceiling over the fire, and moves up & down with a pulley.  It ROCKS!!!! 

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I have a chinese laundry going on in my lounge today with the fire roaring away drying them all nicely!
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