Clothes drying
Has anyone come up with a novel way to dry coats and towels when caravaning? Over the window airers dont fit over our van window and there is not enough hanging space in the van for wet towels and coats. I dont want a rotary dryer. We have an air awning so ( which we dont always put up) so there are no fixings for that. The best I have come up with is a wooden coat stand with holes drilled in the base to stop it blowing over - but then there is the storage issue and not the best for towels.
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My best advice is to totally change the size of towels you use and the method of using them.
We always use the caravan shower and always use guest towels ( typical size 60cm x40cm - better still if you can find 50 x30 ) and whilst still in the shower, I use one in each hand to remove the vast majority of the water from my body. The heat in the shower generally dries the rest so if I do need to use our only bath sheet it rarely gets damp.
The towels are simply pegged to the internal locker handles when we go out and they are dry before we return.
We have found this method to be so successful that we use guest towels at home for showering
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We do not shower in the caravan so the cubicle is where we do this. A fold out airer for towels and space above. Obviously this won't work if you use the shower. Coats are stored in the car (wet or dry) while a large umbrella lives by the door. For washing and drying we then use the site washer and dryer. When we do use the awning a metal clothes horse goes in there.
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Can't help on actual drying space but have you tried microfibre towels? There are various feels and quality, we have demoted to the dog because we didn't feel 🤣..they dried well but had an odd feel. They certainly are ready for action again far quicker than cotton towels.
WWe Had the window airer or used the shower cubicle with the rooflight open. We used a net curtain tension curtain pole which stayed in place during use and travel.
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We have 2 hooks in the shower compartment which we use for wet jackets, either straight on the hook, or on a coat-hanger first. There is also a hook in the bedroom and 2 just inside the entrance door, but they are used for dry things like hoodies and kitchen towels
For towels, our van came with 2 towel rails, in a space behind the bathroom door, that can each take a bath towel, plus a towel ring for a hand towel beside the basin, and a second towel ring right next to the shower. The 2 rails are directly above where the heat from the Alde comes out, so towels dry quickly when heating is on.
I bought some lengths of the same type of rail and 8 support brackets and fitted 2 more rails higher up in the same area, to take the bath mat and a second hand towel, and 2 in the bedroom, below the window, as that is above where one of the heat vents there is. Those 2 can each also take a bath towel, so ideal when we have guests with us. When it is just us we use them to hang our clothes on overnight, or for anything else that needs to be dried.In summer, when no heating is on, we do use a rotary dryer occasionally, or just drape the bath towels over our chairs.
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A few campsites have heated drying rooms - Google for them and seek them out.
Otherwise put wet clothes and towels in tumble drier on Club sites.Otherwise use commercial sized tumble driers at laundrette in town.
Otherwise head towards Mediterranean where things dry quickly in the sun.
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If we were out walking/cycling for day, leaving vehicle back at base, we simply drape shower towels over front seats and let them dry in there. Our wardrobe is over the heater in both our caravan and the MH, so we sometimes use an over door hanger and put coats/towels on there if it’s wet outside, otherwise on a hangar and air dried outside. We did invest in a small rotary dryer when away for a month at a time, for doing a laundrette wash. If coats are dripping wet through, again on a hangar but in shower cubicle to start drying.
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It is only permitted to put clean wet items in club tumbler driers, not used wet items.
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People often hang wet items in the washroom, open the heating vent and adjust others so that the washroom becomes a drying room.
The one I cringe at is people hanging their towels over the fly encrusted exterior mirrors of a MH 🤢
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Microfibre towels are definately the way to go. They dry in a fraction of the time to normal towels.
We use clothes pegs to clip them to anything handy, and hang coats in the shower. If its cold, we put an electric oil radiator in with them, and close the door.
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Not sure what your objection is to a rotary dryer - we've been using one for years and, providing the weather is OK, it works a treat. However - for winter or wet weather anytime - here is my solution:
It's a normal domestic electric towel rail and draws only 600w. Fortunately, our bathroom is quite large and one of the wardrobe walls provided the perfect mounting space. It was an very easy install although I did have to reinforce the inside of that wardrobe wall because of the weight. It's large enough to take two medium sized towels plus a hand towel.
Yes - you do have to manage the inevitable condensation but that's not a problem - opening the roof vent slightly after showers, is enough.
Nothing nicer on a cold winter's morning than reaching for a nice dry, hot towel😀
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With the towel I expect😫
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I have the solution. And it works for people in tents and small campervans too. It's called "Camp Closet".
All I need to do is manufacture the prototype and pitch to Dragons' Den. I have been meaning to do this for years.... and years…. Procrastination is the thief of "Camp Closet".
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Yeah, go for it. It’s surely the way to go👍🏻
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As we always use our shower every day we hang the bath towel over the pull down had for the roof light. When we wash our clothing, if they don't or can't be dried outside we peg them around the inside to the cupboard door handles. In extreme circumstances we will set up a washing line diagonally across the inside of the van, peg up the clothing or towels and go out for the day. They are then usually dry by the time we get back.
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I have rigged up many a camp wash line on CLs, when we were away for a month at a time. Much frowned upon on Club Sites though. Not that we ever spent a month away on a Club Site……….. I had a short line, tied from our camper handle to the dogs tie up screw, just for a few undies one time at Killin. All was well until a bunny caught our Rottweiler’s attention. She managed to yank the screw out of the ground, the line slide off the door handle, so it was dog, screw, wash line and me all in hot pursuit of the bunny🫣🤭 It got away, technically the hound was still tied up, but our washing was a tad grubby🤣
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I cannot see any reasonable objection to a rotary dryer, but everyone to their own.
We have had one for many years and it has never been a problem. You do have to untangle the wires sometimes when you erect it and it needs pegging down, but otherwise it works well as long as the weather is decent.
We do have a hanging rail across the top of the shower like many others, you can hang things on there using coat hangers in bad weather, but do need the cubicle door open to get some heat in.
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