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Washing Line

TackTack Posts: 1,367
edited August 2021 in Problem solving
This is so trivial but can anybody recommend a washing line, or at least the colour (which is available) which would make it disappear, please. It mostly has lawn, trees or dark shrubs as its background, the current bright, shiny, non natural green is dreadful. It needs to be 25-30metres and very strong because I use the full length on a good drying day. It is permanently up. I'm almost embarassed I can't decide which of the available colours would work best.
Edited to add the please, my manners!
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Get a whirly gig dryer!

    Loads of line and you just fold it up and remove it when you don't need it.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • TackTack Posts: 1,367
    But but I love a long line of clean laundry swaying cleanly :)
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    That’s exactly what I do, I don’t like washing lines. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2021
    We have two a bit like these.

    https://www.dunelm.com/product/addis-retractable-washing-line-1000009175

     The lines are dark grey and hardly visible … but they’re retracted when they’re not in use so it doesn’t really matter what colour they are. 

    They take two seconds to unhook and retract. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • TackTack Posts: 1,367
    I need it too often to take down. Thank you though.
  • TackTack Posts: 1,367
    Grey is interesting, thank you. But the length is a problem for retracting.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2021
    How long do you need it? There are different brands with different lengths. Google is your friend. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • TackTack Posts: 1,367
    25-30m, which I haven't been able to find in one long retractible length, the ones that long seem to be 2X15m side by side lines.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    edited August 2021
    @Tack .  Might sound daft but could you spray paint the line you've got? I'm thinking if you loosely coiled it up on a piece of plastic, sprayed it, turned it over when dry and then resprayed it? A tin of multi-use paint should do it.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited August 2021
    Black disappears but I don't know if they do them in that colour
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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