washing line pulleys

liz545

Hi everyone,

I live in a 3 storey Georgian house, and lots of the houses on the street have laundy lines on pulleys, so the washing can be winched out of the 1st floor window to dry. I've noticed our house has one attached to the wall outside our 1st floor kitchen window, and I'd really like to reattach it to the far garden wall so that I can dry laundry outside. However our landlady has said she doesn't think it's very safe to have people hanging out the windows, and the line's currently hanging down into the garden of our downstairs neighbours, so if I wanted to ignore her and fix it up I'd have to ok it with them aswell. It feels like such a waste of money to have the dryer on in the summer, so does anyone have any ideas for alternative outside washing lines? I've thought about propping the airer on the sloped roof, but worry it could get blown over! Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Bogof_Babe

Don't like to see a post ignored, but it looks like everyone is stumped for suggestions.

I am assuming you live in a first floor flat in the building so have no access to the garden. If you do have a share in the garden you'll already have thought about a rotary drier - even one that you could agree to share with your neighbours would be better than nothing.

The only other thing I can suggest is getting an indoor airer (either the stand-up expanding type or one of those that fix to two opposite walls and has cords or wooden struts across) and keep the nearest window wide open while in use.

I don't like the sound of the pulley system if you have to lean out of the window to peg the washing on it. If you were trying to get things in in a hurry (say it rains), you could easily topple out :eek:.

kylieann

albeit four years late
Google this...the price ranges hugely between companies but they are all the same..cheapest Iv spotted is £59.99. Most expensice £120.

The "Brabantia Wallfix 25m Wall Mounted Dryer/airer"

ubamother

for a small number of items, caravan shops sell a kind of airer that clips on a window frame - this might be something you could rig up to fit normal windows.