Drying washing outside

Jolaaled

To prevent peg marks on jumpers:

Thread a long cord e.g. dressing gown belt, or anything of similar length, through one sleeve ( starting at the cuff) and then through the second sleeve ( finishing at the other cuff). Then peg the string/cord to the line at both cuff ends and at the neck. Best not to use thin string, as this will leave a line.

hope this makes sense!
It's a bit fiddly, but is good for drying more precious clothes.

tawnyowls

beachbeth wrote:

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.

Definitely. Wood much worse than plastic, I find. You can buy soft grip pegs (http://www.lakelandlimited.co.uk/product.aspx/!4076), but they're not cheap. What I've found nearly as good, and a lot cheaper, are those peg rings you can buy in pound shops. The round ones only have about 13 pegs, but the big oval ones (Poundstretcher/Instore) have 20 - not bad for a quid! I just bought a ring, took all the pegs off, and use that to peg stuff like T-shirts, as they're usually the things that show the marks worst.

Eels100

I used to be a terrible tumble-dryer-fiend, but since having to pay a mortgage I am much, much better at this line-drying malarkey! Even on crappy cold days, you can usually get the worst of the damp out of your clothes, and then left overnight on a clothesmaiden or in the airing cupboard they're good to go. It saves the worst of the condensation.

Another vote for plastic pegs - I use wooden ones for heavy stuff like jeans and towels, and plastic for t-shirts and tops. It saves the marks that way. Anyway, I hate ironing so much I have found a novel way to get rid of peg-marks and straighten wrinkly collars - run my hair straighteners over them. It's moneysaving if they're already hot!

echo

always put my tops/jumpers on coat hangers and PEG them 2 the line

Icemaiden

Deleted_User wrote:

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

:T

It was my mum whom taught me this.

andrealm

I find washing doesn't dry very well outside in the winter although I suppose if you get a good windy day it would be OK.

I use wooden pegs and have never noticed peg marks and I never iron anything. Haven't had a problem with bird poo but that might be because we have 2 cats and there are a lot of other cats that hang about our garden as well.

Stompa

andrealm wrote:

I use wooden pegs and have never noticed peg marks

Nor me. TBH I'd never even heard of peg marks until now!

Jo_anne_2

Addiscomber wrote:

Not very money saving I know, but something like this was sold, and still maybe for all I know. So rigging up something yourself should certainly be possible. You would need to work how to prevent the wind getting underneath it and lifting the whole caboodle into flight :eek:, and wind tearing the cover could be a problem.

I wondered whether putting a garden gazebo over the rotary dryer would work to shelter the washing from rain? I have thought about doing this but have not got round to trying it.

oldMcDonald

Deleted_User wrote:

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)

I've always hung the washing out like this and never get pegmarks. Find that if you also fold carefully as you take things off the line then you can do away with ironing:T :T (I hate ironing but have a relative that loves it - even ironing dishclothes and knickers why?? )

OFF TOPIC:

OP - love the user name!! Have an Allegro myself!!

Stompa

Jo_anne wrote:

I wondered whether putting a garden gazebo over the rotary dryer would work to shelter the washing from rain? I have thought about doing this but have not got round to trying it.

A bit of Googling finds this:

http://www.cordvale.com/

I'm not sure I'm entirely convinced!