Basic green question

meditraitor

Can a management company for a building scheme legally stop you drying your cloths on a balcony or garden?

With fuel poverty becoming an issue it seems like one of the measures that can be used to lower energy use in the home.

In short will the green politic have enough power to blow these stupid laws away if need be?

AngryHippie

I'm pretty sure most of them have it in the lease agreement, so yeah, they can stop you. For now.

It is possible in the future that this may change as a standard clause in Irish lease agreements, but you can see their point if you look at any old photos of tenement blocks with outdoor laundry facilities, it does look bad, and could adversely affect the image of the apartment block, unless it is being promoted as a green initiative, in which case it could be lauded as a great idea.

I know one of the apartment blocks I lived in in Dublin had a free drying room in the basement, which I used to use late at night, while not the greenest solutions, it was the only one for a ground floor apartment beside the fruit markets, anything hanging on a window would be swiped before it got a chance to dry

luckat

Funny the way customs are in different countries. In Japan, everyone dries on their balconies and no one thinks anything of it. Just the norm.

octo

luckat wrote: »

Funny the way customs are in different countries. In Japan, everyone dries on their balconies and no one thinks anything of it. Just the norm.

Yes. I'm in Osaka now, watching my clothes dry on the balcony outside. No-one uses dryers here, and its amazing how fast you get used to it.

meathstevie

Maybe you can't dry them on the balconies but those yokies to hang on your rads indoors will do the job as well. If you wanted to you could always put a drying stand on your balcony and wait for a reaction.