We simply don't have anywhere to hang loads of washing, so anything like that is out (bar scattering damp clothes around the house). We have no airing cupboard (the hot water tank and boiler are in the garage, which is full to the gunwales with bikes, a trailer and camping stuff and not a clean or warm place for hanging clothes). Every other room in the house has a radiator but is fully-occupied. The utility room has a washing machine, tumble drier and fridge-freezer in it and a little bit of hanging racking, usually used to dry anything that is forbidden from the drier or is a little damp and needs finishing off. Given the amount of school uniform, PE kit, cycling stuff, horse riding apparel and day-to-day clothing we have to get through, we'd need a lot of hanging space for it all. The tumble drier does it all in a neat 600x600mm footprint and can do multiple loads a day if required. Yes it costs more to run but I'd argue less that buying a house big enough to accommodate the space, or building an(other) extension. And we use the clothesline as much as possible in clement weather.
