Drying washing outside

carrottopsuk

streetgirl74 wrote:

How do you get rid of the peg marks if you dont iron your clothes?
If i have washing to dry that i know i dont have to iron i always end up putting them on the horse indoors as i know if i put them on the line they will have peg marks and then i will have to iron them
Would love to know how people get round this?

You could always try hanging things you don't want to iron from coathangers on the line????

Louisa_2

streetgirl74 wrote:

How do you get rid of the peg marks if you dont iron your clothes?
If i have washing to dry that i know i dont have to iron i always end up putting them on the horse indoors as i know if i put them on the line they will have peg marks and then i will have to iron them
Would love to know how people get round this?

I don't know who told me this rhyme in the first place but it has always worked for me:

If you wear it on the bottom, hang it from the top and if you wear it on the top, hang it from the bottom

(i.e. jeans trousers skirts etc get hung by the waistband, tshirst shirts blouses and so on get hung from the hem)

If I have anything particularly delicate or prone to marking I put it on a hanger on the line. Do find that line drying makes my clothes quite stiff, especially if it has been sunny but the wonderful smell makes up for it.

Chipps

I changed from using wooden pegs to plastic ones, now I hardly get any peg marks on the clothes.
As for ironing, it depends how neatly I have pegged out, but more importantly, how neatly I fold or put things straight on coathangers as soon as they come in. Also, not leaving washing in the machine for too long before hanging out, and taking the washing & putting it in the basket neatly before putting on the line helps.
As for rotary lines, they are ok, but if you have room, an ordinary line will dry quicker & with less creasing. We changed when our last rotary line died of old age & I wish I'd done it sooner! (incidentally my garden is about 30ft square, so hardly a vast acreage!)

dzdoris

Hi guys

Don't mean to sound dim but could somebody define the term "airing" for me. My MIL uses this terminology and I still to this day don't know what she means ?!? I thought "airing" was drying and that's what you do when you hang your washing out on the line isn't it??

Thanks in advance

Nikki

carrottopsuk

dzdoris wrote:

Hi guys

Don't mean to sound dim but could somebody define the term "airing" for me. My MIL uses this terminology and I still to this day don't know what she means ?!? I thought "airing" was drying and that's what you do when you hang your washing out on the line isn't it??

Thanks in advance

Nikki

My Nan uses this term all the time. After the clothes have been on the line, she brings them inside to "air" on the radiators (they don't have to be on) i think she means that the clothes lose their dampness once inside for a while.

I'm sure someone can explain better :-)

Tiff_2

Sorry if someone else posted it but if you bring in your laundry just before it's at the dry stage, makes it very easy to iron.

tawnyowls

Addiscomber wrote:

Not very money saving I know, but something like this was sold, and still maybe for all I know.

Yes, I thought Lakeland used to sell it, but no more, apparently. IIRC, it was roughly circular, with one longer flap to protect long stuff like towels. I have found this one: http://www.cordvale.com/index.asp, but it only works on certain makes of airer.

There's this sort of thing too, although I'm not entirely convinced this would keep the clothes dry: http://www.esources.co.uk/product/1328/

Bennifred

sandieb wrote:

I would think that, if you use a whirligig rotary line outside, it would be feasible to put a waterproof top cover on it as the clothes wouldn't actually be in contact with plastic/whatever. The fresh air would blow through your clothers and the top cover would protect them from bird poo.

I haven't actually put it into practice but have thought about it!

When it started raining today after I'd just pegged out 3 loads of washing, I rushed into the garage, grabbed a large sheet of polythene OH had put in there a few days earlier and flung it over the whirlygig - pegged it to the outer line to stop it blowing off. It worked a treat, and saved time having to hang it all out again when the (heavy!) shower had passed. Just slipped it off again! Time saving and free!:beer:

Actiongirl_2

streetgirl74 wrote:

How do you get rid of the peg marks if you dont iron your clothes?
If i have washing to dry that i know i dont have to iron i always end up putting them on the horse indoors as i know if i put them on the line they will have peg marks and then i will have to iron them
Would love to know how people get round this?

I peg at the absolute edges of the shirts and tops. That way, the peg mark is near the seam and tends to be not as obvious.

I agree that line drying makes shirts easy to iron. I dont use starch when they have been on the line. Also, I get the BEST nights sleep when the sheets are line dried! I think it must remind me of being little!

beachbeth

I also peg my washing on the seams of clothes to stop the peg marks. But I also find that certain types of peg make more marks than others and it depends how strongly they clip onto the clothes too.

I always try to hang clothes outside, even if I know its not warm enough to dry them because I know that when I bring them in to finish off on radiators the smell is out of this world. If you could put that fresh smell in a can you would make a mint!

I once put my quilt cover on the line, then it snowed. The snow stopped and it rained. Then the rain stopped and it was windy. I brought the quilt inside, dryed it until nearly dry, ironed it and then finished it off on the radiator. The smell when I went to bed was fantastic! All I could smell for the next 2 weeks when I went to bed was fresh snow. Now in the winter, when I put sheets and quilts out I hope for snow!