Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common laundry questions

[Nancy Baumeister (nancybee]

Moisture in the home is something that I have also pondered. In fact, I resisted 
bringing my laundry home to dry indoors for a while for fear of excess moisture 
in my home.

But then when I investigated more deeply I realized that the amount of moisture 
released into the air by my drying clothes is dwarfed by the amount of moisture 
produced by me and my houseplants. So I stopped worrying about it. Light stuff 
dries overnight and the heavy jeans take 18 hours or so to dry. The humidity in 
my home hovers around 50%.

Nancy the laundry nerd
On 11/15/2012 5:15 PM, Lynn Nadeau / Maraiah wrote:
> One thing to keep in mind if you have indoor drying racks or indoor
> clotheslines: the moisture has to go somewhere. In my own house, it
> condensed on the windows and cost me a lot of money in refinishing the
> wooden windows and sills that got degraded from the moisture. I
> thought I was being so frugal and "eco", hardly ever using my dryer. I
> use it much more now. Lesson: be sure you have serious ventilation if
> you're going to have a lot of wet stuff evaporating indoors.
>
> Maraiah Lynn Nadeau
> RoseWind, Port Townsend WA
>
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