Tension washing lines- help please!

[cabbageroses]

am staying in a hols cottage and using the washing line which is a tension one. when i stretch it out to fix one end to the hook all is fine- but when I hang clothes on their weight makes more line unravel and clothes are almost on the ground.

I cannot see anything in the "line end" to keep the line taut.

anyone?

Is there a clothes line prop there? My MIL has a traditional washing line and needs a prop once she has hung her washing out.

no- i thought about that. I thought the "reel" end should have some kind of button to stop the line unravelling once it was the right length?

Ours has a windy round thingy like a fig 8 to halt it where it is. Does that help?

do you mean the loose end?

this has a plastic end with a hole i n it I assume to attach to hook in wall!

will go and investigate.

Ta.

problem is- the more you pull it to wind it round anything, the more line comes out!

there should be a circle of plastic on the underside of the bit where the line comes out, if you pull the line out, secure the loose end as you have been doing then hook a loop of line underneath the 'line dispensing' end on the circle of plastic to lock it in place.

sorry not sure that helps (apologies for no caps, bf DS2)

ah- so you end up with a double line? will go and try.............

thanks :)