does anyone use a clothes horse these days?

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my tumble dryer died a noisy death tonight (i know i know)
i have a small garden and i really don't want a washing line/rotary dryer but was thinking of getting a plastic clothes horse and finding somewhere in the garden for it to stand
does anyone do this and does it work

thanks

I have a clothes horse that goes inside or outside depending on the weather. Most people I know also have clothes horses.

yes 2 clothes horseseses for undies, children's things, etc as well as the washing line outside.

use clothes horses and a washing line over the bath inside during the winter

Yes - use it all winter for clothes that can't go in the tumbler and for overflow off the washing line whenever the weather is good enough to dry outside.

ooh 2 replies already thanks

might be off to argos tomorrow then

Yes I have then in the conservatory, clothes dry very quickly!

they don't blow over then?

What about a retractable washing line?

yes, they do blow over, also my undies have been known to blow away into garden 3 doors up

SkiBumMum washing line above my bath is retractable otherwise i'd strangle myself on it

:)

Yes.But it doesn't dry as well on a clothes horse outside as on a line.

i am just thinking of uniform bits for dd and t shirts really - sort of stuff you need midweek

You were using your dryer tonight? Really? No wonder it went bang - it was telling you off

Retractable line in the garden, you wont look back.

Clothes horses (now generally called airers) blow over outside in even seemingly no wind, but they are great for indoors in the winter.

Yes, I have a huge rotary dryer, but it's quite far away from the house, so if it's just a few things they go on one of my many airers. I even have a little freestanding rotary airer (got it in Tesco) that I use.

I use one indoors in the winter. Who am I kidding, I use it year round apart from our fortnight summer.

ah yes but chipping it was making a loud noise the other day so todays usage was technically an experiment to see if it was dying
but yes i did think it may have just over heated

i have a small garden and i really really really don't want a washing line

Yep, (I call it a maiden though). I have two, but don't use them outside, as it's such a hassle weighing them down so they don't blow over! They are really useful though (I like hanging just done ironing on them to cool, before piling it all up).

If it was sheltered you might be ok, otherwise I think I'd go for a retractable washing line.

It was warning you the other day not to use it when the outside temp is 27 bloody degrees and your clothes will dry in the sun in 10 minutes

I guarantee you have a bigger garden than me. Clothes dry very quickly, you don't need it up all the time, just when it's being used. Stop being so precious and buy a lovely retractable line :)

If you only buy an airer you will spend half your life rewashing clothes as the airer has blown over again!

yes it is sheltered

oh i wedge mine between the spaces in the decking...

i could tie mine to a tree

Yes, I have a couple, but only for use in the conservatory (oh, and I have one for the towels in the bathrooms but that's not important right now ). Useless in the garden though as they blow over in the wind, and are not hugely efficient as the clothes don't et the wind blowing through them.
You really do need a line of some sort - you can take rotary ones out of their hole in the ground and hide them in the shed when you aren't using them, or have a retractable line, or one that's on a pulley, so up high out of your eyeline / strangling height when you aren't actually putting things on or taking them off the line.

Zendaya - what are you on?