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I live in a *marginal*

neighbourhood, in an apartment without backyard access..... So, everything goes into the dryer.

The very few non dryer items I have go onto the shower curtain rod.

I do miss sheets dried outside, but if I tried to do this in this neighbourhood, they would probably disappear, and I don't mean for ghosties.

Ma taught, and during school year, everything hit the dryer, though in the summer we hung out the wash..at least the sheets, kitchen linens, and Ma's and my sister's summer cottons.

I do wish that my washer's high spin was over 600 something, however.

Lehman's hardware has clothesline, clothes pins, and pin bags. Link should go to their home page.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

http://lehmans.com
 
avoiding blue stains

Bought a GE gas dryer with a SS drum.
No more blue stains.

Had to have:
A SS drum.
Long cool-down *press-care"
Heat settings on a dial such that both timed and automatic cycles could get low-med-hi heats.

I realy wanted an Amana or Speed Queen, but the GE was perfect and much more avaiable in my area. REasoanlby priced, too.

The safety switch that kills heat should a belt pop was a nice +.
 
Gary, no. The no pre-rinse is simply an efficiency step that reduces cleaning up a kitchen by almost half. B-sides, I have other reasons why I don't wanna hang laundry outside.

I did notice the blue b*lls, was gonna ask you about that. Hmm, looks like a personal prob to me ;-)
 
Thanks for sharing the CL info Polkanut

I may check that out if I can't seem to do any good here. Probably those little mom and Pop hardwares may know something. Hardware stores and independent lumber companies are getting more scarce everyday. And you already know why.
 
Blue streak

In Maytag dryers (as in most dryers) only the "cylinder" walls rotate during the drying cycle. The back and the front ends of the drum are fixed. These fixed areas are where the clothes being dryed rub the most while tumbling, specially on the lower side of these surfaces. Both the back and front surfaces of the drum are fixed areas and these are where the blue streak develops. Watch both of Gary's shots of the inside of his dryer, back and front surfaces. Check where the blue streaks developed. Absolutely no blue streak in the cylinder walls.

I cut back immediately on my softener dosage once I found this out. I don't want no gunk on my clothes, no matter how clean they look or nice they smell.
 
Don't forget that comforters may need a dryer dry to tho

Actually, I find the reverse to be true. A queen or king size comforter never dries thoroughly in my Neptune gas dryer, unless I switch it to time dry and bake it.

On the line, it dries completely, all the way through, without needing to use two lines, etc.

Of course, we don't get rain for about 8 months of the year. That helps.
 
Deja vu all over again

Here's another shot of my clothes line, filled with slate blue bath sheets. 100% Egyptian ring-combed cotton. I put them in the dryer for 15 minutes for a no-heat air-fluff. They come out nice and soft.

My Nep dryer also has the blue discoloration. I even called warranty service about it. We agreed it was from a batch of new blue jeans I had dried. It will not come off with any cleaning product I've tried: Soft scrub (contains bleach), Goo-Gone, Goof-Off, etc. I gave up trying to get rid of it; it doesn't affect the dryer function performance in any way.
 
line drying

In the scorching Australia sun, line drying is a must. You hang sheets out and they are dry byt the time you have finished hanging the almost! I do line dry nearly everything, although when i feel like putting it in the dryer, nothing stops me. Since Australia created the Hills Hoist clothes line (one that twirls rounds and you can raise or lower) i know i can fit three loads straight onto it and stil have room for more, they are huge. The following pic is of my housemate Natalie haging clothes on our rather broken Hills Hoist, we are looking to buy a new one but we have found they are quite expensive. By the way, Natalie was in the process of pegging out 5 Hitachi loads and that just filled it.
Happy drying
Matt

http://www.hills.com.au/
 
WOW didnt expect so many replies!!! :-D

I Didnt realise there would be restrictions to having washing lines up in your Garden's thats just ridiculous!
In all honesty its my Mum that got me to line dry, she loves trying to save money wherever she can (who does'nt?) and the dryer only gets used when needed... I.E when its raining, usually in winter when its cold we have the Gas Central Heating on so we dry the laundry, but when these get full we flow into the dryer!

Thanks for your responses, keep em coming if you havent had your say yet :-D

Take Care
Dan

The pic below is another view of the towel load I did, please excuse all the bars, its Scafolding the Builders are using as were having an extension built to the side of our house.
 
I admit it. I are bad. I have a clothesline but NEVER hang my clothes out to dry. I like the softness of dryer-dried items, especially towels and sheets. Living in Minnesota, half the year it's too cold to hang things out, anyway. (The wheels of rationalization are whirring!)
 
I use a dryer-I have a clothesline but problems-the birds,the pine trees,the bugs,the neighbors dogs-and last but not least--the squirrels.The neighbors dogs stir up all kinds of dust from their "yard"they have "tilled" the dirt there with their running and digging-no grass grows where the neighbors dogs do their thing.My clothesline is right next to that yard.And also its VERY HUMID here-don't think a clothesline would do much good.
 
I look forward to the warmer weather so I can hang all my laundry outdoors. It smells wonderful and of course saves on the untility bill. Even in the winter months I still hang sweathers out and bring them in at night just to get the chill out, but for the most part they do dry. There is nothing like the outdoor dryer.
 
I use my clothesline as much as possible, I have an umbrella folding type, we've had one for many years. Mine got bent by some neighbor kids swinging around it a couple of years ago, but it bent back into shape OK and lasted until this year when a strong wind brought it down with three loads of bedding on it. I bought another, stronger model at Ace Hardware a few weeks ago but haven't been home or had the good weather to use it yet.

I couldn't stand havining restrictions or covenants that didn't allow for a clothesline and I think it's very bad policy for these types of rules to be allowed in a country/state/city that imports much of the energy it uses - at ever increasing prices!

This is one like I bought:

http://housewares.hardwarestore.com...line-parallel-steel-clothes-dryer-104767.aspx
 
Thanks Greg for the info

I think I would like this umbrella dryer better since it takes up less space in the yard (my yard is tiny). I think I can have one here without the neighbor getting into an uproar as there is a restriction on the kind of fence( no chain link)Thanks again-David
 
We had one of those umbrella style clotheslines in the yard when we bought the house. It blew down/broke off at ground level. My wife wasn't sorry to see it go. We now have the 20 footer as mentioned in Post #139549, and my wife loves it. She used it for the 1st time on Sunday (7/2).
 
My usual routine is 1400 rpm spindry in the twin tub, and then hang on the indoor clothes lines. I wouldn't risk outdoor clothes lines here (in the city, theft risk by wandering vagrants; also soot from traffic on nearby main roads).

In the winter, since I keep the place about 60 - 65 Fahrenheit, I'll occasionally put a few items through a micro-dryer for 10 minutes or so (capacity = a couple of shirts or one pair of jeans, power consumption 600 watts) to get them a bit closer to fully dry before hanging them on the lines. I occasionally use the regular dryer for large heavy items or when I need something dried ASAP, but this is not often. (In theory the large dryer would be more efficient than the micro for a regular load of about 6 lbs., but in practice this is offset by the amount of time it takes to heat up.)

In a couple years I expect to be living in the country, where outdoor clothes lines will be safe from both risks.

Re. California anti-clothesline stuff in the homeowners' "agreements," try this: California law encourages solar power equipment and specifically overrides any homeowners' "agreement" to the contrary. A clothes line is a solar powered clothes dryer. This would be a very interesting case to take to court, though it might not even have to go that far if you just tell your neighbors about the solar law.
 
When I lived in the downstairs apartment I had a garden and there was a long clothesline. Here's a picture that I took in August 2000. After I moved to the upstairs apartment there were clotheslines on the balcony, but I didn't use them very much. After the renovation of the balconies the clotheslines disappeared and I bought a few small drying racks that I can hang on the balcony railing. It's not as convenient as a clothesline and far from ideal compared to the clothesline in the garden. I put almost everything in the dryer nowadays.
 
WOW Foraloysius thats an awful lot of laundry there!!, ive just done a large load in my hoover but its nowhere as near as big as that, was that all one load ??

I didnt expect so many responses honestly!! I didnt realise line drying would be such a popular topic, when our new kithcen extension is finished, we are getting a large rotary (umbrella) style washing lines and i cant wait to cram loads on to it :-D

Keep em posts coming :-P

Take Care
Dan
 
Dan - you've seen how much I can put into my 5 kilo Miele haven't you? Guess seeing is believing :-).

Jon
 
I don't have a dryer. The Asko spins at 1400 rpm, then everything goes out on the line. We have two lines, one is a freestanding steel framed clothesline which gets some sun most of the day, the other is a few lines strung up under the carport, which we use in bad weather.
It is winter here, we will be using the bad weather system for a few months now, till about September - hang clothes under carport for a day, bring in at night and dry in front of the fire. (we have a wood heater in the loungeroom and a wood stove in the kitchen.) Most things are dry by next morning.

Chris
 

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