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Not all flats have a washer/dryer; we are glad ours does. Take a look at the photo and you will see a very compact unit under the kitchen counter; it does the wash and it drys. Laundry loads are quite small, an armful at a time at most. And, it takes a long time to do that armload: an hour and a half for the wash and a couple of hours to dry. Caution, drying anything beyond damp results in wrinkle city. Really, we have never seen laundry that wrinkled, worse than the face of a Shar Pei.
Fortunately, we have a couple of clothes horses. AKA drying racks, airers, clothes maidens, or winterdykes. Now, there is a name for you, winterdykes. In Scotland, the word "dyke" means a wall or a fence made without mortar that was occasionally used for hanging laundry in the summer months. Hence the winter dyke refers to drying in the colder weather months.
