Hang or tumble

These thoughts ran through my head when I read your post, hespian.

Which council?
Are they removing the poles because they are not used?
How are people supposed to reduce their carbon footprint if they are forced to use tumble dryers instead of fresh air and sunshine?
What is the thinking/policy (if such action qualifies for such a name) behind this?
Isn't it stealing to take things from people's gardens?

PS I'm a hanger, inside and out, though the tumble dryer does get some use in summer damo weather when even the internal air is too damp for things to dry properly. I haven't used it for months.

Damp, not damo

I hang my washing out whenever the weather is dry enough - far more Eco friendly and the smell is just divine when you bring them in. DD was saying same thing about the smell when I brought a load in a couple of days ago. Tumble dryers are good in the winter but I find there are an increasing number of clothes which you should not put in the tumbler and they are a bit of a pain in wet weather as I hate the smell of wet washing drying in the house.
I wonder if alternative drying facilities are being provided for the people losing the washing lines.

I think they were posts in a communal area that were a bit old but rather than replace them they have been removed and there are going to be planters instead. Only a little while ago they were talking about the health risks of drying washing indoors!

Washing line, but I do tumble towels for a few mnutes to get them soft and fluffy.

Whenever possible hang it outside or on clothes airer (didn't they used to be called a clothes horse?) in conservatory. I do use the tumble dryer for my "smalls" (which aren't so small any more!) but only once a week.

I don't have a tumbler dryer. Washing usually goes on the line. We do have a pull out rack in the utility room which does well for the smalls.

Our tumble drier appears not to be working, I don't like using it anyway, it's in our garage and is not vented out anywhere so it covers the immediate area in fluff and that attracts dust. When I can't dry washing outside I have a clothes airer up in a spare bedroom and remove items when they are not wringing wet and put them on radiators, my husband moans about this constantly and tells me that the place looks like "Widow Twanky's" He is threatening to get a new tumble drier as apparently there are ones around that now don't produce loads of fluff even if they aren't vented out.

To remove communal clothes poles sound ridiculous to me, what's wrong with washing blowing in the wind? to me that is not an offensive sight at all. Many Mediterranean countries string up washing lines in alley ways between their flats people should be able to resort to drying their clothes in the most natural way possible.

I'm going to use my new clothes line for the first time today . I did use one years ago but kept getting bees in my washing and it scared me so much I stoped putting washing outside. Even so I'll not put tee towels outside as I'm paranoid about outside lines not being clean and bird poo etc [not sure why this is]. And socks and stuff will stay indoors cause I'm washing two weeks worth and can't be doing with having to peg out so many items [not sure I have enough pegs]. T shirts will go on coat hangers and stay on them till I wear them [saves ironing; I haven't even got an iron now..went to iron something t'other day and couldn't find one anywhere except for an old, rusty flat iron that lives by the fire].

Outside when possible and inside on a pulley if not. My electric bill went down by £200 a year when I ditched the tumble drier. The pulley cost me £50 five years ago...do the maths! Most things dry overnight even denim jeans.

Tegan you just wipe the line before using it and I've never had bird poo on my washing yet.

Outside I have two ordinary (long) washing lines, plus a huge rotary washing line and in the utility room I have two further (short) washing lines. In addition, two of the bedrooms are equipped with large airers for drying clothes. No excuse for using the tumble dryer unnecessarily. I find that when I'm washing bedclothes they dry very quickly in good weather and often I can bring the first wash in before putting out the second.

I do use the dryer in the winter but in our so-called summer I try to get the washing out on the line and since my mother was never concerned about bird poo, it has never occurred to me either. Anything not quite dry is hung on a drying rack in the bathroom.

And grannyA don't they smell so much fresher when dried outside?

Today programme had an article about this this morning

You're very lucky never to have had birds' poo on yours Aka. No purple splodges when they've been on the elder berries?!

I got rid of my tumble drier when we moved to this house. I hang everything outside (and I mean everything) when the weather is fine and hang everything inside when it isn't. Sometimes when it is a lovely day I actually hunt around the house looking for things to wash just for the pleasure of hanging it out.

Actually I can understand this in some circumstances. Think maisonettes where the piece of lawn that you look out on from your front window actually belongs to the people upstairs.

Housing is so different these days. No longer all houses with own back gardens.

I tumble everything that's suitable in winter if not it goes on radiator airers.

Summer everything is hung out on rotary airer. I try to save washing for a dry day if not I will do the same as in winter.

I'll always remember being told by someone that they tumble dried everything in Canada and never put things out to dry. Hard to believe that, years later I'd be doing the same [although I don't tumble dry things totally but put them next to a dehumidifier for a while and then the airing cupboard].

I do not have the space for a tumble drier and in the days when I lived in a house where there was space, I could not afford to run it. I have a rotary drier and for winter I put clothes on an airer in a spare bedroom.

I do not mind looking at my clothes from the lounge or kitchen window but I do agree, I would not like to be viewing somebody else's.

I only wear any item once and then it is washed so I appear to be washing for the county as I have so much, summer and winter.

Hang outside whenever possible and inside when not. Washing is outside now and another lot nearly redy to join it.

We have lived here for nearly 4 years and I haven't used the tumble drier once. Don't even know if it still works.

When weather is not suitable to put washing outside we have room for an airer in a space between the utility and my study and it dries there.

When we lived a couple of miles inside the M25 I used to put up the rotary line in the spring and clean all the muck off before use. Now we live here I have tried to clean it in the spring but no dirt comes off. Just think what I was breathing in when living in Surrey!

JO when we lived 'up north' we had loads of elderberry bushes and a telephone line with ran above our drive. Purple poo was always deposited on the car from resting birds hmm]

Shameful to have to admit that I tumble everything all year round - the few times I tried hanging washing outside the line either collapsed or the weather conspired against me so I've stuck with the tumbler. I like the feel of tumbled clothes, towels etc. although I can remember the lovely fresh smell of clothes dried outside. When my children were small I took great pleasure in hanging their things outside, when I got bored I'd hang them according to size, type, colour, whatever got my attention on the day...lol!