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we find they hardly ever dry in our cool bathroom, so we finally decided to hang the damp towels downstairs after using. What a difference. Dry towels overnight now.
How about you? How do you keep your bathroom warm and dry?
My towels air dry just fine in my bathroom. I don't have a towel rack for large towels, so I just flip them over the shower curtain rod. No issues drying by the next day.
well we have a humidity problem for sure.
Beijing is VERY dry in the winter (actually our climate is technically quite desert-like), so we just hang things in the bathroom and they dry really fast (and add a bit of much needed moisture to the air. But I have a colleague who has a constant problem with condensation and mold in his apartment -- I think it is probably a circulation issue, or maybe something to do with construction.
If I were living in the PNW long-term, one thing I would DEFINITELY put in my house if I were doing a remodel is one of those towel warming racks. Nothing like dry, warm towels when you get out of the shower....
lhamo
Gardenarian
12-14-11, 5:48pm
In summer I throw them over the shower rod; in winter I put them on a rack in the laundry room.
I "dry off" in the shower with my washcloth, squeezing it out as I go. I'm barely damp when I get out, but my feet are still a bit wet, so I do put the towel down to step on, even tho we have a bath rug there. Boise's pretty dry, so towels etc. dry fairly quickly.
well the Pacific Northwest is very damp. I have never thought of just about drying off with a washcloth. Interesting idea.
Kally, you must not have a register in your bathroom?
We have a bathroom towards the middle of the house, so no windows and it didn't have any register. When we got geothermal, we had a register put in there.
We used to get mold in there all the time in winter, but not any more.
Its probably good for your bathroom to get those wet towels out of there, and probably good for the rest of your house to get the moisture from them somewhere else!
i think we will keep the towels downstairs in a hanging room. We do have a register, but it is not very strong. However we are going to see if we can boost that heat a bit or control it better.
OMG we just went back over the pipes and realized the register wasn't fully opened. DUH
Thanks to one and all.
I dry off 95% in the shower with my wash cloth. Then I use a lite hand towel to finish. The smaller size drys very quickly.
I did see towels in Target made of a fabric that said to "dry faster" than standard towels. It caught my eye, but not enough to check the fabric content...
goldensmom
12-14-11, 11:59pm
We put wet towels on hooks in the bathrooms. With a ceiling exhaust fan, heat register and window the bathrooms are free of humidity in minutes and the towels are dry less than an hour.
reader99
12-15-11, 10:00am
It's very humid here, and I run a dehumidifier all day every day. It sits just outside the bathroom, so a wet towel hung over the door dries pretty fast.
Float On
12-15-11, 10:06am
Our hall bath doesn't have an exhaust fan and I know those towel have a harder time drying. I've been bad lately about tossing them in the dryer and then putting them back in the bathroom on the hooks so the guys can still use them a few times before actually washing them. I don't have that same problem in our bathroom because it has a window and even in the winter my husband opens the window while he showers.
I wonder who, on this forum, has the most humid winter. It is pretty darn damp here in the Pacific Northwest. Cool and damp for rather a long time. On the other hand we have little snow, so that is great.
Speak up if you are a damp dweller and how it affects your home.
Central Florida. The only time the dehumidifier (@ 40%) cycles off on its own is a few days in January.
Things don't dry quickly in our poorly insulated apartment. We hang towels over radiators in all seasons.
Before we moved to Boise (dry) we lived in Crescent City CA, home of the redwoods (wet)! Somewhere around 40-60" of rain a year, maybe more?, all in the winter. High temp in the fall (nicest time of the year) could be 70, and I can't remember the coldest -- maybe high 30s, low 40's? (And yes, we did get "snow" one winter when we lived there :-D) I "dried" with my washcloth then, as now, and don't recall a problem -- the washcloth and the towels dried "enough", anyway. I had a window in my bathroom, but DH's bathroom didn't. (yeah, separate bathrooms!! wonderful!) I think his towels dried fine too, but actually I'm not sure but I don't recall him saying anything about it.
hey I am really into this washcloth drying thing. It could save a bundle on laundry.
Face/hand-towels are used in our house for a couple of days before I change them out for fresh/new. When damp/wet, I hang them on my wooden drying rack. Wet/used bath towels are immediately deposited into the washing machine, and/or, laundry basket (downstairs). In addition to, two small towels bars in our main floor bathroom serve as an alternate drying place.
Mrs. M - you only use the bath towel once? Is this common?
How long do you use your personal bath towel before washing it?
Shame on me (I know), Kally, but all used bath towels in our house are laundered promptly after use. To answer your question, "is this common", my answer to you is, yes, but I some flack over it earlier in the year on a thread I started related to such, so in the new year (spring time), I'm going to make a conscientious effort to change my ways.
Mrs. M - you only use the bath towel once? Is this common?
How long do you use your personal bath towel before washing it?
This might be of interest to you: http://www.simplelivingforum.net/showthread.php?792-Towel-washing-amp-usage&highlight=towel
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