To expect DH to install a washing line!

[LuckyWookie]

He’s been doing the back garden and has removed the twirly washing line to lay a new patio. Lovely. But he’s refused to put the twirly back because it’s unsightly and he wants to install a pergola anyway. And he says we can’t have a straight line either because the garden is terraced on a slope so it would be impossible to get a straight line. I said how am I supposed to dry clothes? He said use the tumble drier? Which horrifies me because my mum taught me it was only for emergencies as the electric costs too much! AIBU to expect my washing line back? And how do you install one when your garden isn’t flat?

We have a washing line that changes direction rather than height, with it hooked into a hanging basket bracket screwed into the garage wall. Could that work?

You need the free standing rotary airer from Lakeland OP. Very sturdy and comes with tent pegs so you can stick it anywhere you want in the lawn and move once you’re done. It’s been a game changer at our house!

I would love a retractable line! But our garden is very steep - the line would be about 15ft higher at one end and would stretch across the sunken patio and over the hedge that surrounds it. The previous line was a twirly in the middle of the patio. I don’t know how we could fit in anything other than a twirly, which DH refuses to have.

Your not your mother. I love my dryer and it doesn’t cost that much to run

Well, he's just being an eejit, @LuckyWookie. Who does he think he is, Capability Brown?

@maddening I literally had the same link that I was going to post!

We have a wall mounted washing line and it's perfect, then it folds away neatly and you don't know it's there. I asked my mother in law for one as a house warming present and it was basically my favourite thing and I kept showing it to people.

It's occured to me now that that might be odd

Op have you got a bit of wall? Our garden is small and on a slope but our wall mounted line is attached to the back of the house

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Install it yourself - it's just hitting a spike into the ground.
I can’t hit a spike into the middle of a paved patio. DH would have to lift the paving stones and cut them to make a hole in the middle. And he won’t. I don’t have a lawn, just steps and terraced flower beds.

Tell him a pergola sounds lovely and you will get some hooks for the washing line you will fix onto it.

@DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult

I have a couple of these in my garden. Sounds perfect for yours.

These are fantastic and so discreet in a garden.

I have a couple and washing is dry in 30 minutes with any bit of a breeze.

I finish stuff in the dryer as it avoids 95% of ironing if folded immediately.

Couldn't be simpler.

Those circular clothes are ugly AND useless.

So put a retractable line side to side if back to front is too steep. But if you have any lawn put a spike in for a rotary dryer.

@DigOutThoseLemonHandWipes

My "twirly" line is only in place when actually drying when I take the washing in I fold the arms in, pop a cover on it, lift it out of the hole and put it in the shed. Then next time we need it drop it back in the hole, whip the cover off and extend the arms. Install it yourself - it's just hitting a spike into the ground.

This is what we do, too. And the knocking in of a new spike is really easy.

But - Why does he get to decide what happens in a garden you both own? Don’t you have a say too?

Unfortunately I don’t have a bit of wall for a wall mounted dryer. The back of my house has a bifold door that goes right across. Otherwise the wall mounted dryer would have been great. I’m struggling to see where we can have a line unless DH puts the twirly back in the patio.

Oh and stop doing ANY laundry for him until it is sorted.

Lift a slab, put the drier in and leave it to dh to tidy it up if he doesn't like it

He is being ridiculous

Why does he get to decide what happens in a garden you both own? Don’t you have a say too?
I’m trying to have a say! I said I want my twirly back on the patio because there’s no other way to fit in a line. DH said he won’t install it and there’s no way I can lift paving slabs and cut them myself. Plus he’d be furious if I wrecked the patio he’s just installed.

@QueeniesCroft

Tell him a pergola sounds lovely and you will get some hooks for the washing line you will fix onto it.

Win win.

Put your own washing line up.

We used to have the twirly on the patio, when it was sunny we moved the twirly and put out deckchairs. DH wants a proper outdoor sofa on the patio so there won’t be room for the twirly. And he wants to put a pergola with fairy lights over the top. I mean it would be lovely to have a proper seating area but I need to hang my washing out!

Get freestanding airers that you can put on the patio - you will of course have to store them by your smart looking bi fold doors which will upset him and perhaps make him reconsider!

Your DP sounds very intransigent. Tell him if he doesn't help come up with a viable solution for hanging washing outside, he can enjoy his new garden in the nude as none of his clothes will be dry!

The retractable line idea could work if you run it from the house to a hook on the pergola

Can you put a twirly hole in the grass right next to the patio so you can stand on the patio to hang clothes and then when your not drying clothes take the twirly out and put it in the shed.

You need some sorry of washing line or airer out there.

I think the fold up clothes horse is good or like others said he will need to put up a line somewhere and some posts

Firstly stop washing his clothes if you are the one that does.
Then with dc/ yours set up a airer where it would be in the way for him ( his side of bed / obscure the tv for him )