pastry brush and clothes prop help please!

savingqueen

thanks everyone for your replies. Will buy a silicone pastry brush - haven't bought any silicone kitchen bits yet but there again nothing else has needed replacing. Will look out for a wooden clothes prop, no hardware shops nearby but might get lucky!

cheers
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miss_scrooge

What's a clothes prop is it like a clothes horse.Can get sillicone pastry brush in wilkinsons quite cheap.

Cannyquine

A clothes prop is a long pole used to prop the washing line up high.

katholicos

I was only saying today that i wish i had the long wooden clothes props my mum used when i lived at home many moons ago. The extending line props i have had over the years have all been very disappointing. If i had the means i would buy some lengths of wood from the diy store, nitch a 'v' in the end and thatd do me fine.

wik

hi....
well i have to say about pastry brush, i have now got a silicone one and it does a good job.

I have 2 clothes props, one was made by my dad he got a long bit of wood from diy shop, and sawed a wedge in one end, I am sorry not sure how big it is, and its too chilly to go to shed to look! but its about 6ft long!

2nd one is another home made one, again a long bit of wood with a rylock ( thing that holds oars on boats) screwed in the end!
wik x

BookWorm

Ebay has plenty of clothes props for sale

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=clothes+prop&_sacat=0&_from=R40

A quick google search also shows Wilkinsons, B&Q and Homebase all sell them too

joedenise

Haven't got a line prop nowadays as I have a rotary line but years ago I used to get a wooden (think it might have been bamboo) inner from the carpet shop. DH just cut a V out of the top. This was about 12' long but just used to angle it to lift it up to the height I wanted depending on what washing was on the line.

Denise

luxor4t

Cannyquine wrote: »

A clothes prop is a long pole used to prop the washing line up high.

I think they are a regional thing - I'd never seen them in South Wales where most lines were on 10/12 feet tall poles which had a pulley each end and were adjusted that way.

MiL in the Scottish Borders had lines at shoulder height and had to 'prop' them. The rope had to be removed after use otherwise you'd garotte yourself in the dark :eek:

greenbee

I have this clothes prop http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B002SLCJJE and it is brilliant. Doesn't rust like other metal ones.

cherie1122

Currently unavailable LOL

I bought a lovely silicon pastry brush from Wilkinsons quite cheaply two years ago and love it - easy to clean and it doesn't leave hair all over the food.