“ Line drying is all fun in games until it rains, gets dust and pollen especially during the spring months, takes away time from doing other things in life”
It’s not fun and games - it’s just part of everyday life here. Dust and pollen isn’t a problem (if it was, as somebody who is fastidious about cleanliness I wouldn’t do it, and I suffer from hayfever whether I hang out the washing or not). It takes 5 minutes at most to hang a large load of washing out - whilst at the same time you can enjoy some fresh air, admire the nature or a fine day, or a chat to your neighbour. Not to mention the lovely line dried smell it leaves, and how laundry is left crease free and keeps its shape etc. It takes 10 seconds to check the forecast on your phone, if it’s not good weather you just dry indoors - simple. It’s a warm day here today (forecast to reach 21°), I’ve just looked out and already before 11am 3 neighbours as well as us have got a line of washing out. It’s just how things are done here.
In terms of percentage of dryers, whilst they are more popular than they were not everybody I know has one (even if they had the room). Plenty of families manage here and across Europe without a tumble dryer - whether that is because of space, cost, concern for the environment, wanting to be kinder to clothes or just not seeing a use or need for one. And not everybody dries naturally here either - of course there are households here who use the dryer regularly if not all the time, and some will have good reason to. When they do that’s where the concern for energy efficient dryers come in, both to be as environmentally friendly and cost effective as possible.
My original point wasn’t to start a debate about whether you should use a dryer or not (and apologies if it has), just making a point of how things are done here (where the new energy regulations will apply, which this thread is about), and also that however you prefer to dry laundry, drying laundry naturally is obviously the most resource efficient considering no natural resources are used at all.
“…but let’s face it, it ain’t 1955 anymore, it’s 2024”
I’m not sure if you meant it to be, but that just comes across plainly rude and ignorant. Considering our daily driver washing machines, dishwasher and dryer sends a notification to our phones when it’s finished we most certainly are living in 2024

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Let’s just leave it at that and get back to the thread subject…