Neighbours washing line

[TheFlamingo]

I live in a flat, each flat has a it's own washing line outside of the front door, there are 5 flats on my floor, the neighbour 3 doors down keeps hanging her washing up outside my house, so she's choosing not to use hers and to pass 2 other neighbours to hang it on my line!! I've spoken to her about it but she said she's lived her for 5 years and has always done it, and basically is going to continue to do it, I don't like having washing hanging up outside my front door so I don't use it for mine so I sure don't want to have to see others washing hanging up, also cos of the way the lines are it means you have to literally walk through the washing to get in and out, she hangs her husbands pants outside my door and all sorts! Wibu to report her to the council and would they do anything?? Wwyd?

I'm wondering if the washing line is 'yours' as much as the parking space outside my house on the road is 'mine'!?

I'll happily donate some tea towels for your washing line OP, DH's granny buys us some every Christmas despite us having a dishwasher and I have a whole drawer full of them now .

Well it probably isn't mine but it would be abit weird for me to go downstairs and hang my washing outside on my neighbours door downstairs just cos we are on the same floor surely that doesn't make it ok? Literally everyone has one outside there door so it's common sense it's for the person that lives there

Think I will have to get some tea towels and just never take them down lol

Bunting, yes!!

I would say it's more like a neighbour parking on my drive way because I don't have a car, being that it's right outside my house because she doesn't want it parked on her drive

I really hope TheFlamingo that you'll update us fully on how this develops - I'm irrationally invested in the outcome!!

I'd have kept asking "but why" and held her gaze. Anyway, that's just me. Did she seem like the sort who would get really violent or just mad in the sense that she'll cry a lot if she can't use it?

Can you get a nice garland from eBay - and wind it round? Preferably something with sticks, pine needles etc sticking out so it's too fiddly to hang washing on top of it.

Highly "o you have someone else's washing hanging outside your door - it's just tough luck and comes with the territory of choosing to live in this sort of accommodation"

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Boot polish on the line is definitely the way to go.

Definitely put something on the line like bunting or remove it. Make a banner *no washing from no ?) please.

Fairy lights might look nice 😉

Speak to the housing association (or council if they're the landlords) and ask for clarification on who has the right to use which line. Explain that you're not happy having someone else's washing flapping about right outside your doorstep when they can have it at their own property and the fact that the tenant has refused to stop doing it.
Often Housing Associations want to do everything in their power to prevent potential neighbour feuds as it often ends up being a big hassle for them. They may be willing to send a note out to the tenants reminding them of their communal area entitlements and responsibilities.

Personally I'd buy the raunchiest underwear and hang them on the line outside her door and leave them there. I suspect also she does it as she doesn't want the washing outside her door, and the other neighbours have kicked off so she uses yours.

Put neat bleach in a spray bottle, when she hangs her clothes just spray with bleach, should only take a few minutes and I'm pretty sure she will stop after that also make sure you spray when wet so the bleach drys with the clothes...... at first she'll wonder what's happened but then after a few times she'll get the hint!!

"The fact that you claim to have done this for 5 years is of no relevance to me. I live here now and that is my washing line, not yours, so do not hang your laundry on it again. If you do, I will remove it. You have a perfectly fine clothes line outside your own front door. Use that one."

Don't spray the clothes with bleach, that's criminal damage.

Putting gel bleach on the washing line, however, isn't ...

Just want to say....hanging things like bunting and tea towels won't work.

She will remove them....garunteed.

I've seen people like this at work before. You should definitely put something nasty on the line. Oil will be good.

I'd go for bunting, secured firmly every 9 inches along line

Bunting with photos tomorrow op!!

DO NOT DAMAGE HER WASHING

Just take it down and put it in a bag by her front door every single time.

I would take it down and pop it by her door. Every single time.

Given that there is a line outside each door, I think it is safe to assume they are allocated to that particular flat. Who but the council would think people want to live with washing flapping outside their front door?They are quick enough to accuse residents of not taking a pride in their neibourhood!

Tibetan Pray Flags is the way to go.