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  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    I use a rotary drier and it stays out all the time (common as muck me!) but it's always folded up when not in use. It's quite a posh one - all the lines retract into the casing as you fold it up so it just looks like a metal pole when it's closed. No dangling lines to get tangled or dirty (in 5 years I've never had to wipe the lines down) and it takes 4 machine loads.

    It has a summer hole (next to the house - nice and convenient - but in deep shade from October to March) and a winter hole in the middle of the garden where it gets any winter sun all day long. Had the cement holes put in by the landscaper so the pole is properly perpendicular to the ground - can't cope with that slight list most seem to have and I just knew it was the sort of simple task OH and I could c*ck up big time🤭

    I (sadly) spent about 2 hours measuring exactly where the winter hole should be. If it's going to be in the middle of the garden - it needs to be in the middle - lined up with fence posts, window frames, the middle of the shed etc etc etc. Perfect symmetry is so Zen.

    Glad to hear I'm not the only one who takes a strange pride in organising their washing properly on the line. OH spends quite a bit of time organising pens and pencils in a rainbow all facing the same way - so he's pretty good at hanging out washing properly too 😁
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    "I use a rotary drier and it stays out all the time (common as muck me!)"

    Och - you're just a manky midden @Topbird :D

    I contemplated a winter hole as well, but I dug up all the grass and made a bigger pond in spring instead  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I was wondering what winter and summer holes were. I was disappointed when I worked it out. My imagination painted something more interesting. Something like a fire pit but for hiding your washing.
    When I was little, posh people had gardens. We lived in a ground floor flat and the garden belonged to the basement flat. There was a washing line on a pulley system attached outside the kitchen window. I assume the other end was attached to a tree. My mum would lean out the window to haul in the washing.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    We had a summer and winter hole as well. Ive got the one now, because there is a round bed,and cherub,where the winter one was.
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    edited August 2021
    Manky midden indeed @Fairygirl - how very dare you😁 

    Anybody who's anybody should have a winter hole and a summer hole🤣
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    B3 said:
    I was wondering what winter and summer holes were. I was disappointed when I worked it out. My imagination painted something more interesting. Something like a fire pit but for hiding your washing.
    When I was little, posh people had gardens. We lived in a ground floor flat and the garden belonged to the basement flat. There was a washing line on a pulley system attached outside the kitchen window. I assume the other end was attached to a tree. My mum would lean out the window to haul in the washing.
    There's the remains of a pulley system in my garden, running all the way down to the bottom. I tend to use a clothes airer, which I can fold up with clothes in situ and carry into the house for putting away. 
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    This thread is absolutely fascinating! Who knew there were so many variations on washing line etiquette.
    I have a rotary line which stays up all the time because I would have to carry it up and down steps which would be a possible trip hazard for me. I do collapse it down when not in use. I only wash it down once after the winter when it stays against the house.
    My smalls are now in full view of the road and opposite neighbours and I don't give a stuff what other people think.
    I have never, ever, thought to matching coloured pegs to clothes, just grab the first ones to hand. They are the plastic soft touch ones.
    I use the tumbler dryer often as it's usually showery here and always throughout the winter.
     I was always taught that it was a very bad idea to dry wet washing inside a house as it leads to damp and mould problems, and not good for humans, either, especially if you have asthma or other breathing problems.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Those of you who have the whirlygig type ... please put them up rather than down if you have young children or dogs playing in the garden unsupervised ... I remember reading of a couple of sad accidents.  

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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I heard that but I had thought it was just put about by tumble dryer manufacturers.
    We use the radiators in the winter and a clothes horse in a south facing bay window all year. but perhaps our house is draughty enough to prevent damp
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    B3 said:
    I heard that but I had thought it was just put about by tumble dryer manufacturers.
    We use the radiators in the winter and a clothes horse in a south facing bay window all year. but perhaps our house is draughty enough to prevent damp
    We keep a window ajar so there's air movement ... we've been doing it for ever and don't have any damp problems.  

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





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