Block of flats/COVID-19/hangi ng out washing

JaneJudge

we all wash our clothes and shower as we come after work or going shopping tbh

I was thinking of this

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-56171006

Janejudge
No we don't. Totally bonkers!!!

Thanks for the link Monica.

I don't wash my clothes after shopping either!

Some of the shops here ask people not to touch clothes or material unless that is the item you wish to purchase. It doesn’t work of course, it is a natural impulse to touch clothes when you are choosing something to wear. Full marks for trying though.

A lot of what shops and the like do is just COVID wash, to reassure shoppers. like many on this thread, who are over-cautious. it is just marketing hype.

It is similar to the way I wear plastic gloves when out and always splosh my gloved hands in steriliser at every shop entrance. I do not think it does much good, if any, in controlling the spread of the disease, but it makes me look good and people are more comfortable around me because I am perceived as being sensible and cautious, so less likely to infect them.

Well, bravo for your building to have a clothes line! I would go ahead. As others say, if no-one else is nearby it's not really an issue in my mind.

I've not heard of communal clothes lines. Good idea. In fact most condo or apartments here have restrictions on clothes hanging outside. Doesn't look up-market. Silly.

MerylStreep

JaneJudge

we all wash our clothes and shower as we come after work or going shopping tbh

I was thinking of this

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-56171006

Janejudge
No we don't. Totally bonkers!!!

I was talking about MY family, we have shielded because my daughter has a severe disability. You can all mitigate your own risk without being nasty to me

I would hang the washing out if it were me.

hanging washing out is normal here, if space allows, unlike in north america where they seem to think it is not quite respectable.
blocks of flats nearly all had communal washing lines originally, but most have been removed/ignored because of theft.
except where they are on the roof, some of those still endure.

i remember when i was little being fascinated by those very high lines, which went out over a garden, accessed from a window above ground floor.
it reminded me of the rigging on a tall ship.
there was a kind of pulley so you could send the washing out and retrieve it, the length of the garden, with a very high pole at the far end.
these were for where a flat was in the upper part of a house.
a tenant who did not have access to the garden, but to the air.
haven't seen them for a long time.
anyone know what i mean.

My Grandma had a double decker washing line in her house garden: two lines one above the other with, like you say, a pulley system. The wooden uprights were like telegraph poles. She must have had very good pegs as the washing on the upper line really caught the wind!