drying rack for sweaty clothes – GreenBuildingAdvisor

hi everyone, looking for any ideas on perhaps a strange question. I exercise (and sweat) a lot and need a better solution for handling wet clothes. It seems wasteful & tedious to do a tiny load of laundry every day or multiple times a day. I can air dry them outside, but often it’s rainy or humid or cool enough that it doesn’t work well, and I have to be home & remember to get them before it rains again.

So my working idea is to just rinse them in the bathroom, ring them out, and have a drying rack for any clothes in there. Then I can store the dried dirty clothes and do a proper load of laundry when there’s enough. I’m in the midst of a renovation, so redesigning the 2 bathrooms anyway. Plan is to have an ERV that draws continuously from bathrooms with boost mode, so hopefully that keeps bathroom humidity down & smells at bay. 

Options I’ve thought of so far are:

1. Just use regular towel bars, and maybe with the ERV and the addition of a whole house dehumidifier drying will happen plenty quick on its own. Till now, w/o that setup, drying has often been too slow. And I assume faster is better for hygienic reasons as well.

2. Electric towel warmer. At first these seemed like a fairly wasteful luxury, but then I got to thinking about how they could dry things quickly, and with the right timer might actually be reasonably efficient. They look expensive though, and not sure what kind of model to look for.

3. Rig up some sort of fan to blow across the drying rack. This seems like it could be more energy efficient than #2, but my bathrooms are small and I’d have to figure out how to position the fan or make it look OK aesthetically.

Thoughts on these options? Other ideas? Ways you’ve handled this problem? Or, if there are mini-dryer units of some kind that would work well, please suggest.

Thanks,

Ben