Get the linen dry

How to dry the laundry during winter

One of the most common problems related to the autumn and winter season is the difficulty in drying your laundry just washed.

Humidity, cold and the often rain recurring expand exponentially the outdoor drying time.

The benefits to dry the clothes that come out of the washing machine, in the air and sunshine outdoors, are outweighed by the cold season.


If you have no other alternative then you need too resort to transparent plastic covers to be laid on the drying rack, in an attempt to protect it from frost risk and humidity that washes clothes on the balcony, especially at night.

The alternative is to hang out in the house, thereby laying the clother on the radiators, resulting in a messy look that you create, or by setting the drying rack in the house and moving it from room to room, until the complete drying of the garments.

Inevitably, in these cases, the risk of the formation of mold humid or even worse in the long run can surface on the walls or ceiling.


Yet having the clothes available is a necessity and, waiting for the good weather, we need to find effective alternative solutions that allow the drying of clothes, reducing the times.

Alternative solutions to the dryer

If in the house the space is limited and you have no way to place or to purchase a dryer, however, you need to find a way to speed up the drying of the garments.

A good solution is the electric drying rack that sits in the corner of the house: it is used for hanging clothes and it attaches to the socket.


This easy solution is the new frontier of the traditional drying rack. There are different models, the traditional and the vertical.
Let's start with the latter variant, much appreciated for its convenience.

The drying rack vertical aluminum is resealable, but when needed is ready to welcome the washed garments, promising quick drying inside the walls of the house.

Thanks to the bars heated electrically, the laundry will dry perfectly and in times much shorter than the traditional system.

The vertical model, available on Dmail.it, has 24 heating bars that accelerate the drying time.

It needs a small space and is lightweight, easy to move and it has a solid pedestal wall, with more bars for drying clothes.

The electric drying rack has an on/ off button, a light control, operation of 230V, 50Hz and 100W of power and it needs a plug. The cord length is 1.40 cm. The power consumption is 200W.

After opening measures approximately 97 cm H x 72 cm wide x 74 cm deep (closed cm 97x 72 x 8). Economical solution compared to the dryer and practical especially in winter.


On Amazon, as in many other web sites, there is also the classic model of electric drying rack.
This model has 6 bars StendiRapido heated and anodized aluminum frame with protection against water IPX-1 (Standards EU-Guarantee).

Dimensions: 110 x 54 x 5 cm, for a power consumption of 100 watts.

Ball dryer

An alternative solution much appreciated by those who need an effective remedy for dry laundry and fresh in a reasonable time, it is the ball that ensures electric drying of the garments that are laid inside.

With a powerful electric motor 1000 w, produces a stream of warm air that dries clothes gently, respecting the tissues.

This remedy is especially ideal for delicate clothes.

Among his advantage quietness of the engine and system security: after setting the speed of drying, it turns itself off.

Finally the garments, which will be hung on hangers inside the ball that works when closed, will dry vertical and unwrinkled, facilitating then ironing.

And also the high temperature (heated to 65 degrees) allows the sterilization of the garments, which dry in a protected environment.

The timer is adjustable up to three hours: the structure can support up to 10 pounds of laundry. The power is 1000w.

Is not negligible energy savings, the seller stands at -75% compared to traditional dryers.

The electric dryer is for sale on Tivedointv.it and on Ebay.

Drying closet

Maybe you will not believe it, but there is a real wardrobe capable of accommodating the garments washed and then dry them and deliver them like new, clean and dry.

The drying closet WT2001 by Frigo2000 seems to meet the need of having to dry optimally large amounts of laundry, quickly, while preserving their integrity.

Inside the cabinet you can hang, on the appropriate support rods, all garments (and fabrics) and get a natural drying and unwrinkled, ecologically sensitive and rapid.

These steps to start the process: hanging or standing in the auctions support the various garments, select the desired operating program (choice of ready board, ready closet or time) and wait for the activation of the drying function, preparing the shorter program with lower energy consumption.

In summary the moist air is sucked from the dried heads of internal fan and conveyed to the condensation system, through a special filter that traps the fluff.

The air is pre-cooled by the heat exchanger discs and then brought below the condensation point, in correspondence of the evaporator of the refrigeration circuit.

The excess water vapor is evacuated in the form of condensation water through the appropriate exhaust pipe, to be connected to the drain of a sink, to a drain or predisposed to a container to be emptied periodically.

Dry air will cross again the condenser, where it is slightly warmed and fed back in the closet to run the cycle again.
The moisture is removed following this principle of operation until the garments are not perfectly dry.

It is recommended to install it in a room with a window.
The cabinet dryer, a double shell and completely isolated WT2001, allows energy savings of 50% compared to the dryer on the market and avoid any waste of electricity used for heating.

Shutter-drying rack space saver

We conclude with a proposal for a functional design.
It's calledBlindry the combination of a shutter on a window that cannot be opened and a retractable drying rack, to use as needed.

This solution, designed by designer Kim Bobin and Ko Kyungeun, is the brainchild of those who must deal with narrow spaces. Hence the idea of a shutter that becomes a drying rack, taking advantage of the sun filtering from outside.

Blindry is also a project space-saving, economical and environmentally friendly to dry your clothes.
The work in the past has yielded to the two designers recognition at Red Dot Design Award, an international design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany.