a silly question

This is going to make most of you laugh, I'm sure, but... I'm writing some articles for a UK client, and I have no idea what an airing cupboard is

we keep our towels in the airing cupboard

Ahhh, like a spare cupboard for towels and linen? Nothing to do with it being set up with heating or anything?

Haha it houses the boiler when they were on the emergenheater or thats what i would say it is haha!

It would get warm in there and we would out things in to 'air off' when they needed warming ir were damp

rebeccaleanne wrote:Haha it houses the boiler when they were on the emergenheater or thats what i would say it is haha!

It would get warm in there and we would out things in to 'air off' when they needed warming ir were damp

It has my combi boiler in it, plus an airer where I dry my clothes, plus a lot of junk

Ps what articles are you writing????

janey wrote:
It has my combi boiler in it, plus an airer where I dry my clothes, plus a lot of junk

U sure thats not a spare bedroom haha?!?!

We just taken one out of ryans room when we bought the house alot now are used as cupboards as people have combis in there kitchen, loft or untilty x

janey wrote:

Ps what articles are you writing????

They're just a couple of articles for a UK plumbing company's website. Apparently they're a new company and I'm to use a different area in each article, eg SW London, Sydenham, Tooting etc. I'm currently doing one on different boiler systems which is beyond me as we don't get them.

You lot are the best - a wealth of info between all of us Maybe we should start a "what's in your airing cupboard" thread, I'm learning a lot!

rebeccaleanne wrote:

janey wrote:
It has my combi boiler in it, plus an airer where I dry my clothes, plus a lot of junk

U sure thats not a spare bedroom haha?!?!

you could be right!!

RoxysMum wrote:

janey wrote:

Ps what articles are you writing????

They're just a couple of articles for a UK plumbing company's website. Apparently they're a new company and I'm to use a different area in each article, eg SW London, Sydenham, Tooting etc. I'm currently doing one on different boiler systems which is beyond me as we don't get them.

Good luck with that then!!

janey wrote:
It has my combi boiler in it, plus an airer where I dry my clothes, plus a lot of junk

Mine too minus the boiler, mines more towels and bedlinen on the shelves, and the bottom is the "I'll leave it in here until I find somewhere permanant for it".

Strewth, you should see what's in our airing cupboard:

Water immersion heater
Vacuum cleaner
Winter boots
Clothing racks
Steam cleaner

Various other odds and ends, mostly junk, my husbands junk of course.

This is what an average airing cupboard would like :

Thanks Kathy! I'm glad we don't have one - it would very likely become another junk cupboard.

Just like mine

Kathy wrote:
This is what an average airing cupboard would like :

Yes, that's what mine looks like.

Now, now, Caryll are you telling porkies

Caryll wrote:

Kathy wrote:
This is what an average airing cupboard would like :

Yes, that's what mine looks like.

I would love to say the same, but mine looks like this......


In all fairness the junk in the bottom isn't mine, I keep very little and throw anything I'm done with away, my missus on the other hand...well, it'll make me angry thinking about the 3 large cupboards, attic and shed full of crap so I'll not bother

Mine looks like the Stigs too but with more stuff in Thing is stuff just gets buried in there and you forgewt about it , we like others have the combi boil;er in there and only discovered the boiler had been leaking for a good while as we had to empty the cupboard for the Gas board to come and service it , I tidy it , she trashes it , that's hop we roll

Kathy wrote:Now, now, Caryll are you telling porkies

Only a teenie tiny little white lie!

Dave wrote:Mine looks like the Stigs too but with more stuff in Thing is stuff just gets buried in there and you forgewt about it , we like others have the combi boil;er in there and only discovered the boiler had been leaking for a good while as we had to empty the cupboard for the Gas board to come and service it , I tidy it , she trashes it , that's hop we roll

It's ok when it's stuff worth keeping, but the missus keeps everything whereas I'd sooner give it to the charity shop or bin it, I cleaned the shed out recently and shelved it all out with enough room to easily walk in and find what you need without tripping over everything and moving crap to find good, where I see "a nice open space in which I can easily access my things" the missus sees a "wow, there's enough room there to take all my sh1t out of that cupboard under the stairs and put it out here, that frees the cupboard under the stairs up for yet more sh1t, thanks Dave". Only the other day we argued because I said "why do we have 2 flatscreen monitors in here when we both have laptops and tablets, give them to the charity shop", her response "I'm not giving them away they were expensive", me "but nobody wants them, everyone has laptops and tablets now", her "well they can stay there then", me "I've been looking at flats, I'm moving out"

stig wrote:

Dave wrote:Mine looks like the Stigs too but with more stuff in Thing is stuff just gets buried in there and you forgewt about it , we like others have the combi boil;er in there and only discovered the boiler had been leaking for a good while as we had to empty the cupboard for the Gas board to come and service it , I tidy it , she trashes it , that's hop we roll

It's ok when it's stuff worth keeping, but the missus keeps everything whereas I'd sooner give it to the charity shop or bin it, I cleaned the shed out recently and shelved it all out with enough room to easily walk in and find what you need without tripping over everything and moving crap to find good, where I see "a nice open space in which I can easily access my things" the missus sees a "wow, there's enough room there to take all my sh1t out of that cupboard under the stairs and put it out here, that frees the cupboard under the stairs up for yet more sh1t, thanks Dave". Only the other day we argued because I said "why do we have 2 flatscreen monitors in here when we both have laptops and tablets, give them to the charity shop", her response "I'm not giving them away they were expensive", me "but nobody wants them, everyone has laptops and tablets now", her "well they can stay there then", me "I've been looking at flats, I'm moving out"

haha i dnt have the cupboard we took it out when we bought the house but we have a spare room that i have my irioning pile in cloths horse as its like a hot house in there PLUS the insides of my OH escort RS turbo that he is restoring that is ment to be in the loft and im a bit like u stig sick a having dash boards and handbrake casing falling on me or nearly breaking my neck on spare tyres and seats!!!!!

mine is where i hide any mess when we have company round and NEVER get it back out so its a right tip (much like under the stairs)!!

my mum used to put wet washing in the airing cupboard to dry mind you there were 8 of us

Sounds handy in the cooler months