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?

If it is a council estate reference I would say ignore it. They would otherwise have stated the covenant restrictions.

Do others put their washing out or do you think this was a personal dig at you by some spineless snob! I'd make a point of putting out my sexiest underwear just to wind them up more.

I’ve lived in privately owned apartment blocks and the rule has always been firmly no to balcony washing.

In our last place you couldn’t put anything f other than flowers/plants and chairs on you’re balcony.

No bbqs either and no storage boxes - small sheds etc. definitely no bikes or prams - one person was reprimanded for storing a kayak on his balcony once.

Like people have said, no washing out front/on balconies is often in the covenants on deeds. It is on our deeds. I’d just take the washing inside because you don’t have the deeds to check.

My nice new build has the same rule. No laundry on balconies.

I own my flat, and am not allowed to put washing out on the balcony 🙄🙄 lots of other fuckers do though

Mine also has something about being decorated appropriately
My dad "I've never wanted to paint a room black as much in my life"

PancakeAndKeith Given the PoW's concern for the environment, you'd have thought he would have encouraged washing being dried outside.

I bet he has a rotary dryer in the back garden at Clarence House, or at Highgrove on the drying green!

Given the PoW's concern for the environment, you'd have thought he would have encouraged washing being dried outside.

You’d think. It was the case when they were first sold but I’m not sure now.

In the country I live in the communal green spaces around and in between blocks of flats very often have large communal washing lines on, installed by the landlords, which people are encouraged to use. I like seeing the washing out to dry. Lowering the tone? Ridiculous

And the environmental point is a serious one. Creating unnecessary emissions for the sake of nothing but silly notions of appearance and 'tone' needs to be thoroughly frowned on in our climate emergency.

Replace the notice with this:

Well I’ve just checked and it seems you are allowed to hang up your washing in Poundbury.

All sorts of shit you can’t do though.

Why on earth in this age of climate change would drying your laundry outside look "trashy"?

Mouldy walls from drying inside are super trashy. So is overuse of tumble dryers.

If it's unsightly, it needs a better wash. Or better arranging, if you're a woman gifted with undies that turn weird colours at the crotch.

Who the fuck do they think they are?! Anonymous little cowards. If it’s allowed in the lease then you can do as you please. I’d write on it: please knock so we can chat about this issue.

I love seeing washing flapping about outside. It takes me to a happy place.

We need to adjust our thinking. Whenever we see a block of flats sans washing, then we should imagine a whole puff of pollution going into the atmosphere. Those flats with their stuffy rules won't seem so desirable then.

YesQueen we're supposed to paint the outside window ledges regularly with good quality paint. We've painted it once with Homebase own brand in the 12 years we've been here!

Pity those blocks of flats that forbid outside drying do not have a laundry room in the basement, and places to store bikes, and buggies and the Christmas trees, and luggage and so on.

But no. Some flats are just designed to thwart normal people's lives.

On the continent, it is normal to see a laundry room, and storage. But not here. So we have to improvise.

Kind of sad isn't it that real lives don't matter, but the visual aspect of the block does.

Drying clothes on a balcony is not a good look for a housing block, imagine if everyone did it?
Rules exist for a reason and you can bet that the rules for how your balcony should be used are set out in the lease. Sorry OP, it’s a unnecessarily passive aggressive note, but it’s probably best to dry inside from now on.

Drying clothes on a balcony is not a good look for a housing block, imagine if everyone did it?

Don't see the issue personally
It's only clothes

This is insane!

Clauses in leases banning drying your washing outside, should be banned!

We should not be encouraging people to use tumblr dryers

For the record, I lived in a flat and someone complained about be doing this. It wasn't in the rules or lease, so I carried on.

No wonder the planets fucked when people aren't even allowed to hang their washing out.

bubblesforlife Drying clothes on a balcony is not a good look for a housing block, imagine if everyone did it?

I agree, it's generally not allowed but the council don't stop it, hence the (unnecessary) reference in the note.

It might be allowed for balconies that face the back, I don't know, but at the front it's never allowed.

I am just shocked by the no drying clothes out rule...just for aesthetic reasons... sorry I just don't get it! Drying clothes is just that people who live there wear clothes, clean clothes..what is wrong with that?