Hang the washing out

P.S. I agree with the sentiments of cheneslieges132 in that I don't understand why some people leave their pegs out on the line to get filthy and fail to wipe the line if it's been open to the elements. All that effort to clean the washing only to let it get mucky marks from dirty pegs and lines! Another thing that amazes me are those who leave the washing out overnight. (I once had a neighbour who did this regularly, so hardly a one off forgetfulness, I think). A waste of effort doing the washing, surely!!

Love hanging washing outside and can relate to all the issues mentioned - bees and spiders, bird feeder and plants getting in the way of washing hanging out in the summer months, etc. I have a small garden in which I have a traditional horizontal line which I use for any overflow from a large load. Best of all though is my 'flat roof' which I can easily access from my landing window. I have two small horizontal washing lines but also a wall mounted rotary line to which, although I swore I'd never use one, I'm now a convert. It has its own waterproof cover which clips on with heavy duty poppers or press studs. This flat roof is rather grandly referred to as the 'Roof Terrace' in polite company and on Facebook. Makes us sound dead posh

From the email I thought this thread was going to be about dusting!

But it's about the chore of hanging clothes out and bringing them in. How many of us keep our socks in pairs from the washing through drying and airing ready to stow and wear?

The wind often whistles through the funnel-like gap between our house and next door's thereby spinning our rotary clothesline, even when it is full of wet clothes.

...and the spinning seems to deter our garden birds from perching on it.

A tumble-dryer would be an unnecessary expense and a waste of energy.

If it's fine the washing always goes outside and then the rotary goes away afterwards since I would never clean all the lines regularly. In bad weather it has to go on an airer then finish off in the tumble dryer - which I'm not fond of as I can visualise the electricity meter going mad! Love the smell of washing dried outside and my DM always reckoned a frost was good for whites. Lovely childhood memories of sheets having to be folded while still frozen, they surely couldn't have been dry?

When the weather is fine, it goes outside - no point bothering if the air is damp, the washing just stays wet and collects dirt. If not fine, I've got a heated airer which is good. I use the tumble drier only occasionally as the clothes are so much harder to iron if they've been tumble dried, I find, but it is good for fluffy towels if it's too wet/damp to put them outside.

I live in an "upside-down" house which means carrying baskets of washing down the stairs and out into the garden. I recently bought a collapsible rotary dryer which goes out onto my upstairs balcony and into a cupboard when not in use.
I have found it really useful, particularly as the whole thing, washing and all can be picked up and carried indoors in a sudden shower. It is man enough to take a big load, including king-size bed linen.

I hang all my clothes on hangers and hang from all the holes where the line goes through the rotary line. Then pants socks towels & bedding on tge actual lines! Anazing how many it holds? Ps, they don't need ironing either!!

I always dry washing outside, and don't have a tumble dryer. I even delay washing if the weather is bad as I detest drying indoors. It is so much easier ironing clothes, etc, that have been dried outdoors, and it smells so much nicer.

I have a rotary line I use as much as possible, in the summer it is covered by a gazebo which we have up to give shade to the children, (I'm a childminder) so can even hang washing out if light showers. In the winter I have to hang on airers in the spare bedroom & on the banisters.

I could afford to run one Cosafina

Mine goes out on the line whenever weather permits, and on an aired in the bathroom when not.
Wouldn't give houseroom to a dryer

Such a lovely smell getting washing in from a line !

At my last house nothing dried in the garden as there was never any sun. Now, I have a garden that gets sunshine eight months of the year and I have a double line that I bought on line that whizzes back into a container on the wall when I unhook them, so only on show when the washing is out. I have also bought a really useful set of rails that hang inside the door of my airing cupboard on which my washing dries really quickly. I resent using my drier in the winter but have no choice.

The one thing which has always worried me is that I see a lot of washing-lines, both Rotary and plain ones, which are left out in all weathers, sometimes with the Pegs still attached, and these lines are never washed or cleaned, and the owners just put their lovely clean washing out on them every day, without a care in the world! I only once made that mistake, many years ago - every single item of my lovely washing was filthy, with severe back marks where the Pegs had held them. I have a cover for my Rotary line, and use it every single time it is not in use holding my washing. Don't people realise just how "dirty" even fresh air can be? And I live in a nice clean part of the country, (the English Lake District) - and not in an industrial suburb of a big town. Can't they see how dirty things become outside?

I have a washer /dryer but on a dry day I hang washing out I prefer to line dry washing and I like the money saving

I've just made life a little simpler by throwing out all my substandard clothes pegs. I used to spend ages rooting through to find the ones I preferred, and decided that since I never used the others they might as well go in the bin.

I have never owned a tumble dryer so dry outside whenever I can although it's hard to know what the weather is going to do when I leave for work in the morning . Other than that I use a clothes airer.

I have retractable line, got mine in Sainsburys, there when I want it, gone when I don't.

Love the sound of your drying cupboard Oriel.
I used to have a tumble dryer, they do save on ironing if you take out the laundry and fold as soon as its dry and still warm.
I don't have a laundry room these days so weather permitting it goes out on a rotary line which then goes back in garage so I don't gave to look at it in the garden when not in use. Can't stand seeing them still up permanently all saggy and with faded grubby pegs attached.
Love the fresh smell of line dried laundry.

I don't dry washing outside because I got sick of bringing spiders in with it every time. I used to have a seperate toilet and bathroom but we converted it to have the toilet in the bathroom and I now use the little old toilet room as a drying room, with wall racks to hang the washing on. We leave the window in there open with an insect mesh over it and the clothes dry in there nearly as fast as in the garden.

I've never heard of a cover for the rotary line.! I like hanging out the sheets and winding up the handle to raise it so the wind catches them. they dry in no time.

I love hanging the washing out as it smells so lovely and clean when you bring it in. Not looking forward to when the weather is too bad and I have to dry indoors.

Living alone only need one load a week which I very reluctantly hang out ?, however ddil has 2 loads a day and uses, a horse, if I remember the term !!!

Don't you find the hot air in the tumble dryer warps them, Teetime

I'm temped to start another scintillating discussion on what pegs to use but I wont. Mine are wooden (the ones with a spring).