I will say it is constantly told to me (an American in very hot Texas) that while it may not get as hot, summers are worse across the pond because AC is not as widespread. At least that's what Britons say. Is that not the case in much of continental Europe? Does the answer change significantly with latitude?
When I visited my family in Germany we stayed in a house that didn't have A/C, so I would believe that it's less common overall. We also went to a lot of places with still-standing medieval architecture while we were there and none of those old buildings had A/C either.
Idk about the rest of Europe but in Greece yeah we don't really have them. Like, you can buy them, I just never had them and neither have I noticed people who had them, I'm sure some do. But is it really important? Like, you can just have a clothe line or one of these stretcher like things, I don't know what they are called in English. I never felt like it was a problem lol
I never had one for a long while, but we got a cheap one because hanging up and drying and ironing 5+ people's washing is exhausting. But it uses too much electricity, which is expensive, so we don't even use it anymore.
Some dryers have a function to keep the clothes warm by spinning the thing up every 30 minutes for like 30 seconds until you take the clothes out so there's pretty much no wrinkles. It's called iron dry or cupboard dry or something.
I mean wrinkles don't look nice when you leave the house and dress up fancy. But I usually hang up my clothes in the bathroom while I shower, so the stream from the shower removes most of the wrinkles because I'm lazy lol.
The cold is also a thing, your wet clothes freezing on the line doesn't do much, it also get super humid when it gets hot so your clothes will still be damp a you really don't want to fold up damp clothes that have been sitting outside and put them in a drawer
If there is no sun, you can smack them with something so that the ice falls off. That's the trick, if it freezes it's actually good, because the ice will either evaporate, or if for some reason it doesn't you can smack your clothes with something so that it falls off.
If they are damp then I guess you have to iron them...
Which you can only do if you are willing to spend the money to purhase said machine, and are willing to pay the electricity bill that comes with running it lol
EU dude without a tumble drier here: we indeed hang them up inside on these contraptions (basically takes a day and a half here to get dry, shorter if you're in regions with less humidity). Larger items - such as bedsheets - are usually hung up on balconies instead (with many clothespins to secure them). During bad weather I hang the later on random doorways in the house.
Oh, if it rains/snows then yeah you hang them inside on these typically, and you put something underneath so that they don't drip on the floor, or maybe you put them on the radiator or something like that. But if it's just cold and it's not raining then they still dry fine, it may just take a longer time. Most modern washers have a mode where they will partially dry them for you so you can hang them without them dripping on your floor.
I don't understand what is going on in this meme.
Apparently Europe doesn't have tumble dryers or something :shrug-outta-hecks:
But... we do
Did this guy see a painting of 18th century peasant life and think it was a photo from somebody's instagram
I dunno Americans are weird
I once had a US dude confidently explain to me (an European) that "they don't have AC or elevators" in Europe.
I will say it is constantly told to me (an American in very hot Texas) that while it may not get as hot, summers are worse across the pond because AC is not as widespread. At least that's what Britons say. Is that not the case in much of continental Europe? Does the answer change significantly with latitude?
When I visited my family in Germany we stayed in a house that didn't have A/C, so I would believe that it's less common overall. We also went to a lot of places with still-standing medieval architecture while we were there and none of those old buildings had A/C either.
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Fancy Europe even has elevators to the first floor. You won't see that in america.
Lol
Definitely no AC in Finland
Idk about the rest of Europe but in Greece yeah we don't really have them. Like, you can buy them, I just never had them and neither have I noticed people who had them, I'm sure some do. But is it really important? Like, you can just have a clothe line or one of these stretcher like things, I don't know what they are called in English. I never felt like it was a problem lol
I never had one for a long while, but we got a cheap one because hanging up and drying and ironing 5+ people's washing is exhausting. But it uses too much electricity, which is expensive, so we don't even use it anymore.
You still have to iron things, no?
Some dryers have a function to keep the clothes warm by spinning the thing up every 30 minutes for like 30 seconds until you take the clothes out so there's pretty much no wrinkles. It's called iron dry or cupboard dry or something.
Well, whatever, I'm not a boomer who irons clothes anyways lol
I mean wrinkles don't look nice when you leave the house and dress up fancy. But I usually hang up my clothes in the bathroom while I shower, so the stream from the shower removes most of the wrinkles because I'm lazy lol.
I have 2 solutions to that:
Not dressing up fancy
Not leaving the house
Covid quarantines do be like that....
:deeper-sadness: :shrek-pixel-despair:
Pretty crucial here there's maybe two weeks worth of says per year that leaving your clothes out wouldn't make them worse.
The only reason why it may not work is if it rains, which, I guess is an issue if it rains a lot lol
The cold is also a thing, your wet clothes freezing on the line doesn't do much, it also get super humid when it gets hot so your clothes will still be damp a you really don't want to fold up damp clothes that have been sitting outside and put them in a drawer
Even if the clothes freeze they will still dry when the sun hits them in general. People still use them in very cold climates.
Okay, I'll just leave them out for a week until the sun hopefully emerges for an hour.
If there is no sun, you can smack them with something so that the ice falls off. That's the trick, if it freezes it's actually good, because the ice will either evaporate, or if for some reason it doesn't you can smack your clothes with something so that it falls off.
If they are damp then I guess you have to iron them...
Or I can put it in the machine directly next to my washer and turn a dial and press a button.
Which you can only do if you are willing to spend the money to purhase said machine, and are willing to pay the electricity bill that comes with running it lol
Mine came with the place
How do you line dry clothes in winter?
You just do it :shrug-outta-hecks:
No I'm serious, like, do you hang it up inside so it doesn't get rained or snowed on?
EU dude without a tumble drier here: we indeed hang them up inside on these contraptions (basically takes a day and a half here to get dry, shorter if you're in regions with less humidity). Larger items - such as bedsheets - are usually hung up on balconies instead (with many clothespins to secure them). During bad weather I hang the later on random doorways in the house.
Oh, if it rains/snows then yeah you hang them inside on these typically, and you put something underneath so that they don't drip on the floor, or maybe you put them on the radiator or something like that. But if it's just cold and it's not raining then they still dry fine, it may just take a longer time. Most modern washers have a mode where they will partially dry them for you so you can hang them without them dripping on your floor.
I'm pretty sure I have one, lmao.