Drying washing on our balcony

[Emmabryant123]

We private rent in a block of 16 flats
The flats vary from rented to owned .
We put our washing on two airers today on our balcony
No offensive clothing etc on show
We came down to this message on the main front door
Are we being unreasonable!? Or is this person who wrote this note being unreasonable?

Anyway I've bought it inside now

Why on EARTH would you knuckle under some random anonymous twat's judgement like that? How can you bear to give them the satisfaction?
Start taking in laundry & festoon the balcony with bloomers!

You want one of these OP it it probably won't be seen behind the wall of the balcony
www.amazon.co.uk/Home-Vida-Winged-Folding-Clothes/dp/B01DDCOLKG/ref=lp_3313506031_1_17?s=kitchen&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1564871712&sr=1-17

This isn't a new build but I hate confrontation so will probably just dry indoors like normal and use dryer in winter as usual

Sweetheart, you are taking your bullying with remarkable good grace.
Please just carry on as normal There isn't going to BE any confrontation. You can't argue with 'Anonymous'!

Just draw a big penis on the note, OP. It’s the only reasonable response.

Totally laughing at people saying washing drying is unpleasant.... in which world? Surely we all have clothes, we all do laundry and we all have a planet which needs us to be making better life choices? Using the natural sunlight and not growing mould inside your flat seems to be about 100 times the better option. Just ignore them OP. Poor people with so little to do or ... take the sign down and write "no notices please, this is not a council estate" or some such nonsense.

Please, please decorate your balcony with some "bunting". A 10-pack of brightly-coloured Y-fronts and some ribbon should do the trick

@yesqueen And what do the management company do ? I’ve never heard of anyone getting jailed for hanging washing up ! 😹

OP, let us know your address so we can send you our donations of unsuitable undergarments:

www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/knickers-caused-row-sleepy-devon-521456

or maybe some actual rags? I have some nice grey rags with holes in which would look quite fetching on your balcony.

@8misskitty8 send shitty letters informing me I'm breaking the lease terms. I'm not sure how they would actually get rid of me given I own the apartment 🤷🏽‍♀️
My neighbour has offered the loan of her garden so I can dry my washing next door

I would of thought it would be the kind of thing that your landlord would of told you when you signed the lease, along with no pets / no smoking/ no BBQs etc.

For them that say they are not allowed to dry clothes on the balcony , what is the reason behind this ?
It is not doing any harm , the only thing that would worry me is if you are high up and a sheet or some such could blow off and land on a passing car and cause a accident but that seems far fetched .

The person who wrote the note is being entirely reasonable.....but only if you are living in Germany 😅

If it's not in your contract I don't see the problem. I live on a council estate and no one puts their washing out. Could be the smell of weed that puts people off. I cant go to work smelling of that.

Do German not hang washing out then?

I must admit I’m interested in which countries do and which don’t.

An American friend told me she thought line drying was dirty and disgusting. I was shocked. I like dry as much as possible. All that damp in the house isn’t good.

Yeah, I was for ignoring it, but now I think the penis drawing may be the way to go,

I thought all environmentally conscious millennials hung their washing out (or at least pretend that they do because it's environmentally friendly).

They would think you were slovenly if you didn't in Italy.

Just abide by your contract. You don’t have to listen to notes from random neighbors. this isn’t behavior that is imposing on them
In any way. (And I say this as someone who has voluntarily chosen to live somewhere with a million nitpicky rules like not drying your laundry outdoors, because I like living in a place full of rules, even if it occasionally means I can’t do something I want so if I am telling you to ignore your neighbor, it really is ok to ignore them)

An American friend told me she thought line drying was dirty and disgusting

Wow, that's hilariously bonkers!
Does she get out much?
I mean, what with all that dirty air & disgusting breezes invading the sanctity of her person & all that?

Makes no sense to not dry washing outdoors

Get what CaptainJaneway62 suggests

They are mega useful, you can hang a full load too

Person who wrote the note can take a flying jump off the top balcony. No, it's 20+ degrees, WTF is wrong with an airer on the balcony. You should get a massive table and leave loads of sex toys on it.

Admittedly I'm common as fuck, but how does laundry lower house prices?

What next? "No cars over two years old."?

We live in a block of private rented flats and the lease states we can't hang washing outside on the balcony.

Although the council estate comment isn't nice, I do think it looks awful when your washing is on full public display.

In a garden (or flat facing away from the street) it's at least private. I know my neighbours wouldn't like to see my Knickers drying and I don't really want to see theirs either!

I'd be inclined to match the passive-aggressive note with another, something along the lines of 'Less of the snooty notes, please. This isn't Belgravia after all....

We take every chance to dry our washing outside. As well as the advantages of avoiding mould indoors and being much more environmentally friendly by drying outdoors, its budget friendly, too - tumble dryers aren't cheap to run!

WaxOnFeckOff

Moving to a council flat soon (hopefully). They even supply each flat with a rotary airer out back