freestanding rotary washing lines?

[RuddyDuck]

We have a tradtitional washing line at the back of our garden. We're planning on redoing the garden and turning the back half into vegetable beds, so need to move the washing line. I don't really want it at the front of the garden, because we use the garden a lot. Also the main room of the house looks over the garden and I dont want to be looking at washing,

We have a paved area to the side of the house which is a bit redundant, apart from a basket ball hoop for ds. I was wondering if I could put a rotary dryer there but don't know how to make it stable. Would a cast iron parasol base work, or would the washing line plus weight of washing mean it just tips over? Alternatively, do you think it would be possible to drill into the paving stones and put in a ground spike? I'd want to be able to take the line down when ds wants to play basket ball.

If you want to be able to take the line down, then a drilled-in base would be better, I think. A parasol base big enough to ensure that the airer was stable when loaded, especially if loaded asymmetrically, would be pretty much immovable.

Could you remove a tile or half a tile, dig down (how much?) and fill the hole with concrete with a ground spike embedded in the concrete? You would bring the concrete to the level of the remaining tiles, and have the top of the ground spike level with the top of the concrete. Our ground spike came with a cap, which we put in the spike to give it aflat surface whenever we remove the airer for parties.

How big are the tiles?

I use a parasol base, it's wide and REALLY heavy, works a treat.

The paving slabs are fairly big. I did think about taking one up and drilling in a ground spike, but couldn't see how to the put the paving back. I appreciate the cast iron parasol bases are fairly heavy, but would make (6 ft tall) ds move it if/ when he wants to practise basket ball

The patio is fairly sheltered as it has the house on one side, the garage on another side and the neighbour's fence on the 3rd side. It's not very breezy there at all so I thought a parasol base might work.

Sory,six , I meant to say that I couldn't see how to level the paving afterwards until I saw how you suggested doing it. Thanks

Have you got wall space to use one of the fixed airers? I love mine, no pole needed into the ground and folds away really neatly against the wall when not in use.

littlemissdizzy I thought your suggestion was great, so dispatched dh to JL yesterday afternoon to buy ine. Airer is now fixed to wall and am about to dry first load of washing on it.

Thanks for all your help, people.