What’s the point of a washing line prop

[LovelyYellowLabrador]

Is it to just help hold up the weight or to make the line tighter so it swings more in the wind ?

@Shopaholic100

Can anyone recommend a good one? Some are so flimsy they break after a short time.

Get a proper wooden one, they are the best and last years.

That’s what everyone had where I grew up AnchorWHAT. I’ve lusted after one ever since. I did find a company
That make them but it might be beyond my abilities to install one.

I got mine from aldis, they must be at least 5 years old now they lift sheets higher so the sun gets to them all day

@AnchorWHAT

I don't need one, i have a huge pole in my garden at each end of the line and a pulley hoist system on the top line so it hoists sheets etc right up into the breeze, small things go on the bottom line.

This sounds excellent - did you buy it/install it yourself or was it already in?

Keeps my washing from dragging on the ground. I got one from b&q.

OP have a look at pincinox stainless steel pegs. They are quite possibly the most expensive pegs in the world BUT they have a lifetime warranty so are intended to last for generations.

I bought some at the same time as some regular plastic ones 5 years ago. At least half of the plastic ones are now broken (maybe I just got crap ones), but the stainless steel ones are still as good as the day I bought them. I reckon by the time I'm 90 I should break even with savings on not replacing broken ones!

Fed up of the cheap metal ones that break so got DH to make one from a piece of wood....

Great video...

@User7493268965

We bought a length of timber from Wickes in the appropriate size and DH cut a notch in the top and sanded it down, it cost about £4. It is much better than my old metal one.

What did he cut the notch with? I'm a bit rubbish at DIY.

@LovelyYellowLabrador, these clothes pegs are similar to the pincinox ones. They are even more expensive but very beautiful.

Three will hold my king-size 15 tog duvet when it’s airing on the line on a very windy day.

They’ll send you 2 for €3.50 including postage if you want to try them first.

So Jonny can get his marble from down the drain pipe...

Hang on, he needs a little more including a policeman and dynamite, I think...

I have some stainless steel pegs which are brilliant plastic ones just seem snap eventually even f you always keep them inside.

The only person I know who uses a prop lives in Scunthorpe, everyone in my area uses a pulley on a tall pole to pull the line up, or they use a rotary line. Props are unknown here ( South Wales)
Very much a regional thing I think.

yep ,my friend made a pully system for me,total game changer

now need to sought the pegs,i leavemine out all year and the snap yearly im guessing the weather dry's them out

@Bamaluz can confirm the excellent pulley systems are definitely a south wales thing. this is the company that make them and if you're in s wales they'll come and install it too

Wooden prop and wooden pegs. Plastic pegs just snap

@Shopaholic100 Wilko do a decent metal one.

We've got three! Wooden, all made by the last home owner, varnished and he made them a little storage thing next to a drain pipe. :-)

He had a few things like that in the house, what was less helpful was the homemade tv shelf in the dining room that he wall papered around!

I got this one from Dunelm a couple of years ago. It's thick sturdy metal and has weathered well considering I don't look after my laundering accoutrements as well as I really should.
Also cyclone pegs don't seem to crumble after a couple of seasons like the sprung ones. They don't leave marks on the clothes either.

Managed to get some bamboo pegs for now but I’ll look into the Steel ones would love a pulley system. That sounds amazing
I thought they were only used in flats in the olden days

It was already in, I live in Plymouth and everyone seems to have them here, my mum was amazed when she first came to visit 😁