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?

I don’t have a dog at the moment, 😃

To be honest, our towels are huge. I Chuck em over the sofas, or the benches when it’s hot and they dry very quickly. Just turn them round after a little bit. The same with the door mat, or tea towels, cleaning cloths etc Everything f else I tend to hang up on the airers in rhe spare room.

Even when we had the whirly gig I didn’t use it. I’ve just never been a peg your washing out person. I only do my own laundry though, and sheets, towels etc. My husband does his own and my daughter hers since she was about 13. So they can do as they please with their own laundry. They do the same as me.

When you say sofa do you mean outside patio sofas?

I can understand his point that he's doing up the garden and a twirly washing line looks absolutely awful and ruins the whole look.

We did the same thing to our garden last summer with new paving, pergola and fairy lights etc and I love it. We had to take up our old washing line too and we replaced it with a retractable one which is brilliant because its completely out of the way when not in use! Are you absolutely sure you can't make it work? I know you say the length of the garden is too steep but maybe you could put a post in the hedge or something to stretch in to and have 2 smaller clothes lines?

I have a retractable line under the pergola - great for drying when the weather is not so great...

Generally I either throw it over one of the benches/sofas

The OP should do that when her DH is lounging on the sofa.

This putting wet washing over the sofa.... Doesnt it make the sofas musty and I presume that these are outside.

If you do your own washing and the other two do theirs seperately that is effectively 3 people's washing. Surely that will look very messy. Using a whirly and the clothes can dry very quickly.

Yes a retractable line is the way to go OP. Only pull it out when drying clothes then it goes back in so not unsightly. Much nicer to dry on line in good weather as sunlight kills bacteria. Tumble drying also shrinks washing.

@DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult

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

Yes, I have one of those too, problem solved really

Twirly line in a flower bed, if only to prove a point?

I've just times it and taking my "twirly" down and putting it in the shed took 1 minute and 40 seconds of which about twenty seconds was DH and I doing the you first dance as he was coming out of the shed as I was going in. The only sign it was ever there is a small circle of black plastic in the lawn where the hole is capped.