Rotary washing line 'strategies' please!

jackieb

andrew-b wrote: »

Not sure how i let that comment pass me by - guess you must have been upset by my comments on posting a photo :rotfl:! I never said to use a dryer all time just pointed out "it's often" more convenient. Time is money? Not everyone has time or the inclination to put washing out/ rearrange it/ bring it back in again/ keep eye out for rain etc etc. More to life than household chores! I'd rather spend my time doing something i enjoy like DIY. Each to their own i guess! Still don't understand how people create so much washing..do you wear multiple outfits a day or something then shove them in the wash because a speck of dust has landed on it?!

Andy

There are 6 of us. My son's eczema means he has to wear creams and it marks his bedding and clothes. My daughter has had bowel problems since birth and that creates a lot of washing too. If her clothes are dirty, they have to have a soak, then a separate wash, then a soak (to get rid of stains) and then another wash because the smell lingers. I really need 2 washing machines but I don't have the room. Some days I do more than 4 loads. Believe me when I say that I don't make work for myself on purpose.

You prefer DIY to hanging out washing - fair enough. A lot of us prefer drying our clothes outside whenever possible. But this thread was about advice on the best way to hang out washing. I work but I still manage to hang out washing when the weather's good. It doesn't take long. I still have a dryer but I rarely use it. It's there if i'm desperate.

andrew-b wrote: »

It's far simpler using the tumbler and often worth the money when you consider the time taken hanging it out. With the tumbler you don't have the problem of bird crap, stiff towels or have to bring it all in when it rains plus it doesn't make the garden look untidy.

Andy

Btw, where did you say in your first post that ''it's often' more convenient.'

brazilianwax

loracan1 wrote: »

You will never EVER have enough pegs.

So true :rotfl::rotfl:

I'm quite anal about laundry

Laundry day is one day a week and it coincides with my jammie day :T Clothes are washed in order - darks, colours and then whites - and then bedding - duvet cover (superking) and then sheet and pillowcases and then towels (I do a hot wash for towels). Everything gets double spun.

Anything that can be dried on a hanger goes on the hanger and then onto the outside of the line (using the lakeland hookups that someone posted). That includes shirts, tops, cardigans etc. Frillies go on the inside lines, then bigger things go outwards, leaving a line between each row of clothes.

The first 2 loads get half the line each, and when the whites are ready I take anything that's dry off and sprinkle the white clothes through the gaps. The clothes are usually all dry by the time the duvet cover comes out of the washer and so the bedding goes on the line on it's own. Towels go out wherever and whenever they can.

Don't have a tumble dryer so everything has to be line or clothes rack dried in the summer (especially as it rains so much in Wales :rolleyes:) and radiator dried in the summer.

My washing machine is on the way out (I had to take the concrete out of it because it broke :rotfl:) so it'll get replaced with one with greater capacity and a higher spin soon (but only once it's well and truly knackered and I can fix it no more )

WallyBird

ribenagirl wrote: »

SEE that's why I needed the help - it's really confusing! :eek: I would have thought that it made sense to put big stuff on the inside so that it didn't block the sunlight to your smalls, but then why would they make the lines smaller on the inside

moonrakerz wrote: »

If you can design a clothes line like that you will make a fortune !

Suggest you start here ..................

So funny! :rotfl:
Time Lord technology might be the answer.