The Clothes Line

14-09-2014 08:55PM

I've washing still on the line tonight. It will be perfectly dry around 10am tomorrow.

There's enough wet and cold days in the year where clothes are drying on rads, banisters, airers and in tumble dryers. Also, I love the fresh smell that you only ever get from drying clothes outside.

keith16 · 14-09-2014 09:48PM

What kind of pegs do people use? I prefer the wooden ones.

What about those spinny / roundy washing lines? I hate them.

Bafucin · 14-09-2014 09:55PM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Right AH,

This may lower the standard of threads to something completely boring.

Came up in conversation the other drunken night...

1) Is there any harm leaving clothes on the washing line at night time or should they be taken in? -personally think they should, bugs and stuff getting in them.

2) Mate of my living in apartment says he is not allowed to leave clothes on the balcony as they are unsightly? Bit strict?

Moldy clothes are not nice and they are likely to in Irish weather even if it doesn't rain.

14-09-2014 09:58PM

Bafucin wrote: »

Moldy clothes are not nice and they are likely to in Irish weather even if it doesn't rain.

Are you implying I have mouldy knickers ???????

?

Neyite · 14-09-2014 10:01PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I had my knickers stolen off the line a few times over the years. I don't leave them out anymore. Sick, creepy fcuks sneaking around peoples gardens stealing underwear.:mad:

In college there was a spate of Levi's thefts off the line. One lad went back home to the sticks and brought back electric fencing, replaced the clothes line and hooked it up to the electricity. Complete with a couple of pairs of jeans as bait.

They got a great laugh a couple of nights later to hear screams from the back garden and went out to see two scummer women caught red handed trying to rob the jeans. It was sadly in the days before YouTube.

Tail Docker · 14-09-2014 10:13PM

Candie wrote: »

Nothing says ghetto quite like laundry strung across level after level of balconies. It looks awful and I'm not surprised there are rules against it.

If I put something to dry outside it's to let the breeze and the sunshine dry it. Damp night air defeats the purpose and I'd probably wind up putting in the dryer to finish it off anyway. It also looks lazy.

I have to use a dryer for everything where I am, or string unsuitable things for the dryer across the bathroom.

Yeah, but we have also collectively decided that grass must be cut short to be acceptable. The twat that invented the "Lawn" was responsible for some hardship down the years. I let mine grow, Fck The World.

Iranoutofideas · 14-09-2014 10:19PM

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Are you implying I have mouldy knickers ???????

?

They favour moist conditions

o1s1n · 14-09-2014 10:23PM

One thing that's kind of scary, once you get a tumble dryer and start having to empty the condenser after every couple of washes - all that water would be in the air if you were rad drying :eek:

Can't imagine that's good for your health/possessions at all.

Cool Mo D · 14-09-2014 10:47PM

catallus wrote: »

If only!

Tumble dryers use significantly less electricity than a standard fridge. I also note that you completely ignored the chlorofluorocarbon aspect to defend this heinous practice :mad:

But that's the point; if we had a dedicated detergent forum (of which I could be a mod) then we could educate people like you and your ilk :eek:

This is complete and utter horse-excrement. A typical dryer uses 2.5 - 7 times the power of a normal fridge. And CFCs have been banned in Europe for a long time. Even if they weren't, they are inert gases that are zero use for cleaning, obviously they are not and have never been an ingredient in detergents.

catallus · 14-09-2014 10:56PM

Cool Mo D wrote: »

This is complete and utter horse-excrement. A typical dryer uses 2.5 - 7 times the power of a normal fridge. And CFCs have been banned in Europe for a long time. Even if they weren't, they are inert gases that are zero use for cleaning, obviously they are not and have never been an ingredient in detergents.

Yeah, well, you would say that, wouldn't you?

Look, the evidence is there for all to see: http://saveonutilities.com/Electricity/Appliance%20Electriciy%20Use.htm

The ozone is real. And the hole is real too. We have to think of the future.

Cool Mo D · 14-09-2014 10:58PM

catallus wrote: »

Yeah, well, you would say that, wouldn't you?

Look, the evidence is there for all to see: http://saveonutilities.com/Electricity/Appliance%20Electriciy%20Use.htm

The ozone is real. And the hole is real too. We have to think of the future.

It exactly backs up what I'm saying...

The_Valeyard · 15-09-2014 07:07PM

catallus wrote: »

Yeah, well, you would say that, wouldn't you?

Look, the evidence is there for all to see: http://saveonutilities.com/Electricity/Appliance%20Electriciy%20Use.htm

The ozone is real. And the hole is real too. We have to think of the future.

Isnt the hole getting better?

Also the healing hole may actually be contributing to global warming, now thats an interesting paradox!

fleet_admiral · 15-09-2014 07:11PM

I havent got one, well im too lazy to put one up. The dryer does for now

biko · 15-09-2014 07:15PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I had my knickers stolen off the line a few times over the years. I don't leave them out anymore. Sick, creepy fcuks sneaking around peoples gardens stealing underwear.:mad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuwjT36fkOo

Sh1tbag OToole · 15-09-2014 07:52PM

Candie wrote: »

That seems to be the way it is in a lot of apartment blocks. The difference is in a private garden that they aren't on public display.

I don't think anyone can claim it looks good on apartment balcony after apartment balcony. It's one of the downsides of living in a building with communal rules. People usually know that before they move in though, so it's not a case of tough luck, just a tough choice.

I used to live in a normal house in an estate where they had a rule against drying clothes on a line. The residents association had this rule and various other rules to prevent lowering the tone like you weren't allowed to work on your car or anything. This was in south Dublin, where everyone is a FG/FF voting, status quo supporting amateur property speculator. Christ am I glad I don't live in that place anymore.

Really whatever kind of a house you live in drying clothes outside should be encouraged, it's the environmentally friendly thing to do. No need to waste good kilowatts just because some associate it with poverty in their own heads.

15-09-2014 08:16PM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

I used to live in a normal house in an estate where they had a rule against drying clothes on a line. The residents association had this rule and various other rules to prevent lowering the tone like you weren't allowed to work on your car or anything. This was in south Dublin, where everyone is a FG/FF voting, status quo supporting amateur property speculator. Christ am I glad I don't live in that place anymore.

Really whatever kind of a house you live in drying clothes outside should be encouraged, it's the environmentally friendly thing to do. No need to waste good kilowatts just because some associate it with poverty in their own heads.

How does a residents association get the power to veto what someone does on their private property in their backyard?

It's crazy, it's not like you're keeping wasps as a hobby or it affects anyone else. I'd get it if you were all hanging it across the street, but out the back?

ToddyDoody · 15-09-2014 08:18PM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Right AH,

This may lower the standard of threads to something completely boring.

Came up in conversation the other drunken night...

1) Is there any harm leaving clothes on the washing line at night time or should they be taken in? -personally think they should, bugs and stuff getting in them.

2) Mate of my living in apartment says he is not allowed to leave clothes on the balcony as they are unsightly? Bit strict?

Are you sure you were drunk?

tayto lover · 15-09-2014 08:22PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I had my knickers stolen off the line a few times over the years. I don't leave them out anymore. Sick, creepy fcuks sneaking around peoples gardens stealing underwear.:mad:

Same happened to an old aunt years ago.
We used to laugh about it and say that there's a family of tinkers camped in them somewhere.
She was a big woman.

The_Valeyard · 15-09-2014 08:30PM

ToddyDoody wrote: »

Are you sure you were drunk?

Well yeah, we was stealing one of the lads washing line at 3am and trying to put it through the post box

Sh1tbag OToole · 15-09-2014 08:36PM

Candie wrote: »

How does a residents association get the power to veto what someone does on their private property in their backyard?

It's crazy, it's not like you're keeping wasps as a hobby or it affects anyone else. I'd get it if you were all hanging it across the street, but out the back?

I'm not sure if it only applied to the front but i think it was clothes drying full stop. Mandatory tumble drier. Some people only have a street to hang their clothes on and I wouldn't try to stop them of doing it. Can you imagine if drying clothes on a line was a new concept, only done by hipsters. It would soon spread and nobody would have a problem with it.

shruikan2553 · 15-09-2014 08:37PM

Apartments tend to allow you to do very little with your balcony. I have a clothes horse so just throw that out there. Unless the management company are on a big boat in the harbour they wont see.

conorh91 · 15-09-2014 08:47PM

Candie wrote: »

How does a residents association get the power to veto what someone does on their private property in their backyard?

They don't. I've seen something similar, and it's really more of a peer pressure initiative than anything with any legal basis. Completely ridiculous rule tbf.

femur61 · 17-09-2014 09:12AM

Same has happened in our estate during the summer. Line was put up at the side of their end house. They have a large back garden. New people put a long line at the side when people driving out of the estate everyday get a view of washing. Everybody else have rotary lines in the back of the garden. It is an end house with a large garden. Even if they put the wall at wall level or below level.

Who wants the whole world to look at their knickers? It does look bad.

It is a private estate.

Feisar · 17-09-2014 09:33AM

I THINK me granny used to leave bed sheets out over night. I is supposed to starch them to some degree.

Anyone ever heard of this?

kylith · 17-09-2014 09:36AM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Wonder does that actually happen a lot to clothes on the line (bird crap that is)

It does. It's why I had to get rid of my clothes line.

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

I used to live in a normal house in an estate where they had a rule against drying clothes on a line. The residents association had this rule and various other rules to prevent lowering the tone like you weren't allowed to work on your car or anything. This was in south Dublin, where everyone is a FG/FF voting, status quo supporting amateur property speculator. Christ am I glad I don't live in that place anymore.

A member of my family lives in a South Co. Dublin estate that, while they have no ban on clothes lines, has a ban on commercial vehicles being there over night. The only reason for this, as far as I can tell, is so the bankers and the like don't have to know that plumbers and builders can afford to live next to them. One poor sod has to park his van outside the gates and walk half a mile to get to his house.

Ghost Buster · 17-09-2014 09:38AM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Right AH,

This may lower the standard of threads to something completely boring.

Came up in conversation the other drunken night...

1) Is there any harm leaving clothes on the washing line at night time or should they be taken in? -personally think they should, bugs and stuff getting in them.

2) Mate of my living in apartment says he is not allowed to leave clothes on the balcony as they are unsightly? Bit strict?

Another victim suckered by the "There are more bacteria on your chopping board than up your cats ass" advertising.

Hoop66 · 17-09-2014 09:48AM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I had my knickers stolen off the line a few times over the years. I don't leave them out anymore. Sick, creepy fcuks sneaking around peoples gardens stealing underwear.:mad:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-amsPTx8FNBs/T8Rb5RzY6XI/AAAAAAAAA6I/At5kH7sSR2Y/s1600/aliens-underpants-2.png

Czarcasm · 17-09-2014 09:50AM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

2) Mate of my living in apartment says he is not allowed to leave clothes on the balcony as they are unsightly? Bit strict?

It's a reminder that modern apartment blocks are not slums or tenement buildings. I'd actually agree with the management company on this one. I don't mind people having plants or flowers on their balcony (as long as they're well maintained and not withered and unsightly), and while we have the washing machine and tumble drier here, I prefer to employ the services of the local laundrette which collects our laundry and drops it back the next day, much more efficient all things considered, and far less unsightly.

mrsdewinter · 17-09-2014 10:08AM

Czarcasm wrote: »

It's a reminder that modern apartment blocks are not slums or tenement buildings. I'd actually agree with the management company on this one. I don't mind people having plants or flowers on their balcony (as long as they're well maintained and not withered and unsightly), and while we have the washing machine and tumble drier here, I prefer to employ the services of the local laundrette which collects our laundry and drops it back the next day, much more efficient all things considered, and far less unsightly.

Wait. Are you being czarcastic? You think those of us who live in apartments should have higher electricity bills just to spare the feelings of those who don't like the sight of a few pairs of knickers fluttering in the breeze?

Czarcasm · 17-09-2014 10:34AM

mrsdewinter wrote: »

Wait. Are you being czarcastic? You think those of us who live in apartments should have higher electricity bills just to spare the feelings of those who don't like the sight of a few pairs of knickers fluttering in the breeze?

Well, when you put it like thaaaat... :pac:

It's just one of those things that, well, if everyone starts doing it, it just makes the building look unsightly, as the architects never took into account that Mrs. Browne would be hanging out her flag-sized frilly bloomers on the balcony, or Mr. Browne's stained jockeys...

I know at an individual level it feels like an asinine rule, but as a collective for the appearance of the building as a whole, it just brings down the tone of the area. I've even seen apartments where the occupants use the balcony like an extra storage space for their bin bags full of rubbish which attracts vermin, or bicycles left out on the balcony...

I know in other European countries that it's not such a big thing (apartment living in Germany or the Netherlands is far more common than in Ireland, so the perception of poverty isn't as prevalent in Ireland where the prevailing attitude is towards ownership of the two-up, two-down with a front garden for the kids), but here in Ireland, people tend to try and at least hide their disdain for apartment living, and there's no need to give them even more reason to flare their nostrils in disgust :pac:

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