to hang my washing out directly above neighbours'?

[Zorion]

I've had a call from our LL who has received a complaint from a downstairs neighbour. I will go and chat to her, but as it isn't my first language I need to prepare a little mentally!

We live on the 6th floor of an apartment block. There are old fashioned washing lines joining up balconies that go the whole way up the building. They are directly on top of each other, so above my washing is the 7th floor washing line, and below us are 5 floors of washing.

The neighbour has complained to my LL that my washing is dripping on hers...

I am quite annoyed she has gone directly to the LL - it makes me feel a bit like a teacher talking to my parents - but that is another issue! I've not met her before and we are new to the building.

WIBU to hang out my washing when there was drying washing on the floors below? Thing is, there are 10 households below us drying washing (2 per storey) so it would be very tricky trying to do my washing when they haven't done theirs....

you need to spin better!

we're not supposed to put washing out on our balconies, but i do drape it over the balcony chairs= not too noticeable.

I'm guessing the OP must be outside the UK, rather than being here and English not being her first language.

Wherever it is, it must be nice that they have managed to get rid of all other crime and antisocial behavior so that they now have the resources to deal with petty gripes about where people put their washing.

I know that's not the situation but I am always astounded that there are such utterly pointless rules about not putting washing on balconies and that people can be fined for doing so.

Surely her neighbours could be dripping on person below her likwise. I think its ott to go LL over that loool

I wouldnt pay for new washing machine unless its faulty.

Ive never lived in flat like that. what if washing blows off on windy day ur knickers will be in communal garden or neighbours balcony i couldnt live down the embarrassment lol. i think id dry indoors on airers or electric airer. If u dont have lots of ppl my mum used to use fireguard them.big ugly ones, dont know why when i was there wevused rads. but clothes dry in one night then ugly thinh putcaway, thats if you have gas fire and dpace fir ugly guard

kat I have an ikea socktopus for underwear and dry it indoors! there is on occasion a lonely sock (not yet one of ours) on the entrance hall table!

no gas fire, live in warmish climes. yes I am English but I live in North Spain, I'm ok at Spanish but not quite debating level... I can manage an apology but not an argument!!

Do you think maybe you're neighbour went to your ll because she thinks you don't speak the same language? She could have known him for a while, so I wouldn't get too het up by her going to him first.

I think you are a little U to be dripping on her washing. Hope you can sort it out without too much stress though, your ll sounds like a pita.

Can you get hold of a SpinARinse? They're brilliant, the stuff comes out nearly dry.

Are you in Switzerland?

Cross post, Spain..

Have you got money, space and a socket that would take something like this? If your best spin is 900, this would get loads of extra moisture out.

Also, can you keep an eye on her washing habits. Does her washing go out when the floor below have washing out?

Good luck. I can see someone putting dripping washing out above my nearly dry washing would be frustrating, but unless you go for a day per floor allowed to hang stuff out, its likely those near the bottom always have wet washing above them. I'd go for extra spin -try just a spin cycle after your washing has finished, and see if that makes a drip difference. So, I don't think YABU, but I can see you might need to alter your washing habits slightly to appease Señora.

I think your best bet would be to carry on putting stuff on an airer over the bath until it stops dripping & then pop it on to the line.

It is a faff I know, but I can also see the neighbour's point of view if her clean, dry washing suddenly had drips all over it.

Being in a lovely warm country (jealous much ), this will probably be less of an issue as the year goes on as everything will dry so much quicker the hotter it gets - your clothes and any drips on anyone else's washing.

What a shame you have a "can't be bothered" LL though!

I used to live somewhere where the protocols were similar - it was considered very bad form to drip on neighbours' washing, or to scoot your dirty floor water on to their balcony (everyone washed their floors by chukcing multiple buckets of water and soap onto the floor, and then squeegeeing it off - fine if you're on the first floor, less so if you're on the top: you had to make sure your balcony outlet pipe was super-long to avoid everyone else, but not long enough to go into the next door building's area): anything I had hand-washed, I would roll in towels and pat gently (assuming it was a delicate) to absorb drips, and then put on a clothes horse in my tiny studio until drip danger had passed, before hanging it out. Anything out of the washer didn't drip - I don't think it's normal for stuff to drip unless you've washed it delicately? Still, if you have things that can be machine washed, go for the towel method, but twist vigorously and then hang etc

Strangely, this was a country affected by water shortages and masses of terrorist violence (as well as semi-frequent wars): perhaps that was why little things like drips really bothered people, as it was one of the few things they felt they could exercise control over? It only took me one major bollocking from the students in the flats two doors down never to dry a dripping swimsuit off the balcony again!

but her washing must drip on someone elses as well

The other thing you could do, which I do with hand washed stuff is to roll it in a towel, it gets most of the water out.