A lady I know hangs her clothes on the line in the winter. Do they really dry?
2006-10-28 09:25:46 · 16 answers · asked by happydawg 6 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
I live in Northern Michigan and they will dry it just takes a long time for them to dry. If you want them to dry in that cold of temperatures hang them out on a windy day.
2006-10-28 09:35:26 · answer #1 · answered by miamac49616 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They will freeze at some point but be drier than they were, by normal evaporation, which slows down in the cold. (Freeze-dried?) Then you take them off the line and finish them in the house. Hang on lines in the basement or finish in the dryer. It is too much work unless you don't mind the chore. And you end up wrestling with an almost unfoldable flat life-size version of the wearer of the clothing. This was common practice in the old days, though.
2006-10-28 09:33:46 · answer #2 · answered by steviewag 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It will take some of the moisture out of them. This would sorten time in the dryer but she would have to wait until spring for the clothes to be truly dry.
2006-10-28 09:33:05 · answer #3 · answered by staceygab 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they dry. My sister hangs out sheets all year around. She brings them in and places them over the couch and loveseat to either finish drying or to make it smell great.
2006-10-28 12:15:52 · answer #4 · answered by cowgirl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no they would frezze and, become stifer than a godam board could you imagine being in a hury and runnning out of a stiff pairs of jeans and you had just 15 minutes to get too a job sitte?? we dont who, she is that hung clothes out in them kinds of temps but she needs her head examinedd really fast!! or trying too put on a sock just dragging it in on a 20 degree day right---
2006-10-28 09:30:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If it's 20 degrees, they'll probably freeze before they dry. But then they won't be wet anymore, they'll just be.. frozen.
2006-10-28 09:51:13 · answer #6 · answered by Strix 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes but more slowly that they would in warmer weather. Evaporation is a function of relative humidity, temperature and air movement.
2006-10-28 09:29:41 · answer #7 · answered by sdh0407 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
nope. For the same reason water doesn't dry in your freezer. It freezes.
2006-10-28 17:29:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If it's dry and windy they'll dry fine.
2006-10-28 09:34:27 · answer #9 · answered by NikC 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
ive tried it..and all clothes were stiff and frozen..best to do it under the sun..or use a dryer..
2006-10-28 09:28:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋