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AIBU with my rotary washing line?

16 replies

Light69 · 10/05/2017 14:20

Moved to a new build house where you have to pay a residents fee to live here every month. There are lots of rules, one being you are not allowed a straight washing line. Each house has an identical rotary line cemented in which was done by the builders. I have never used this type of line before well until today that is and don't want to read a thread on here later written by my neighbour about how I have hung the washing out all wrong. All socks and knickers are hung on 2 sock holders from Ikea and I have used the same 3 lines on all 4 sides of the washing line. So here is my AIBU, AIBU to have hung it out like this?

I do have another load to hang out just waiting for load to dry as not sure how many lines I should be using at the same time.

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cakesandphotos · 10/05/2017 14:26

Hang your washing out however you want! As long as you're not pegging shirts out by the shoulders, you're fine! You can get so much more on a rotary line (or whirly gig as it's known in my family)
I usually hang underwear on the inner lines and then the bigger stuff on the outside lines to hide it but you do you!

MrsHathaway · 10/05/2017 14:31

I find it's inefficient to use adjacent lines so I leave a gap of at least one - on my big rotary that means you can use four lines each side.

I'm sure you're fine!

MrsHathaway · 10/05/2017 14:32

PS we have two rotary lines and a fifty-foot straight line. I still run out of space

claritytobeclear · 10/05/2017 14:36

IME there is no need to overthink this. I have been pegging washing on lines since being a small child. We always did peg shirts by the shoulders too! They all dried fine. No problems, not misshapen or anything. Before lines people used to spread clothes out onto bushes to dry. I now use an airier inside and hang things on hangers in my airing cupboard. Have done for years, no problem.

Scottishchick39 · 10/05/2017 14:36

I leave a line between each row, let's the air in between. It's a whirly gig to me too.

Light69 · 10/05/2017 14:39

So I could fit more on and it would still dry? Going back out to rearrange.

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Ginmakesitallok · 10/05/2017 14:43

You can use however many and whichever lines you want! I tend to use alternate lines on one side, then move to the next when that's full. Makes it easier to bring in. Even when it's full it dries - just might take a bit longer.

Allthebestnamesareused · 10/05/2017 14:45

You can use all the lines - that's the point of them!

ASqueakingInTheShrubbery · 10/05/2017 14:50

I use alternate lines, as I find it doesn't dry unless the weather is scorching hot if I use every line. I can get two full loads on in this way. I put small things in the middle and big things at the edges. If there's no wind I find it helps to turn it round every now and then so that each side gets a bit of sun.

Brittbugs80 · 10/05/2017 14:51

People actually complain about this?!

terrylene · 10/05/2017 14:52

I use the line opposite each other to keep it balanced, then hang the next load out in the spaces, then take the first load down for the next load (depends on the weather and the length of time the loads take).

I only use alternate lines (to let more air round) when it is cold and drying slowly. In high summer, I put it all close together so that it does not dry too fast (live in a dry area).

MumW · 10/05/2017 14:55

I've found that it is best to use alternate lines for air circulation and I try to put undies inside. I also try and even the weight out around each side, especially on the out lines so that it balances and is more likely to spin in a breeze but that may just be a quirk because as our garden is on a slope so the line is always leaning at an odd angle.

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 10/05/2017 14:56

If anyone is really bothered by how you peg out your own washing, that says more about them than you!

BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou · 10/05/2017 15:05

I'm another one who usually uses every other line BUT I put undies on the outside as I feel that on the inside they would be blocked from the breeze/sun.

HerBluebiro · 10/05/2017 19:19

Try to keep an even weight all the way round.

I put longer stuff in the middle so it oesnt block light etc from the smaller stuff which I the hang on the outside. Excepts Herts which I hang on outside because they are too long. And jeans which need all the help they can get to dry.

bibbitybobbityyhat · 10/05/2017 19:21

I sincerely doubt anyone is going to complain about how you've hung out your washing.

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