Our dishwasher has a good drying programme but the bases of glasses, cups and mugs etc sometimes retain a little water on their bases ...... When unloading we stand these pieces upright on a fluffy towel or microfibres cloth and then pretty much immediately transfer them dry to their shelves.... Works well !

When I worked full time it tended to be Saturday mornings, but now I am at home I do it when I have a load full. Also I like to, when possible, dry my washing outside and so this also has an impact on when I do the washing.

We have an upstairs laundry room and I dry shirts and things I can't tumble on hangers on a rail. If the tumbler is on then the clothes dry really quickly. The max spin speed on my washing machine is 1400rpm, so clothes are really barely damp when they come out. We have a bathroom type fan to avoid the room getting damp. Re noise, I wouldn't put the machines against a wall where for example someone's headboard is the other side of it. But then again, I don't do any washing overnight. With the door ajar, you can't hear noise anywhere else upstairs. The machines are over the garage so I can't really say how much noise comes through the ceiling.

Hiya, I think this should be possible but will be a bit of a squeeze. We have a laundry airer which is about 40cm x 1.2m so that would fit but wouldn’t give you much room to stand in while hanging laundry on it... not to get personal but you would need to be pretty slim!! I think you can get them slightly smaller (but less capacity) but I have seen ones which are two tier so that may work better for you. obviously you will need good ventilation (decent extractor fan and ideally a window open as much as possible) and don’t have laundry drying when using the shower...