I've seen many on this forum talk about it so my wife and I decided we'd try it - wow does it work well!
We have a stackable frontloader which left enough room in the laundry room for a 5' long shelf with a closet rod to hang things on for drying. We have been pulling out any shirts/pants/towels and other bulkier items and hanging them while leaving a few smaller items in the washer. After a few hours, the clothes hanging are completely dry, but a little crunchy if cotton based fabric. We toss them into the dryer with the smaller damp items from the washer and in about 10 minutes, they're all done, and soft from the short dryer/steaming cycle. Cuts about 80% of the dryer time from what I can tell.
I wasn't sure it would work well because our laundry room is upstairs down a hall on the other end of the house from the downstairs woodstove, but I guess the humidty is so incredibly low that things dry really fast. We also run an open top steamer on the stove 24x7.
Anyway, if you've considered trying it, give it a shot - we will do this a lot in the winter now.
-Colin
We have a stackable frontloader which left enough room in the laundry room for a 5' long shelf with a closet rod to hang things on for drying. We have been pulling out any shirts/pants/towels and other bulkier items and hanging them while leaving a few smaller items in the washer. After a few hours, the clothes hanging are completely dry, but a little crunchy if cotton based fabric. We toss them into the dryer with the smaller damp items from the washer and in about 10 minutes, they're all done, and soft from the short dryer/steaming cycle. Cuts about 80% of the dryer time from what I can tell.
I wasn't sure it would work well because our laundry room is upstairs down a hall on the other end of the house from the downstairs woodstove, but I guess the humidty is so incredibly low that things dry really fast. We also run an open top steamer on the stove 24x7.
Anyway, if you've considered trying it, give it a shot - we will do this a lot in the winter now.
-Colin