The Clothes Line

shruikan2553

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

paulbok

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.

We know that, you're talking out of it. :P

Tokyo

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

Wut?

Taken from the very link you posted:

Refrigerator (frost-free, 16 cubic feet) = 725W
Clothes dryer = 1800–5000W

Dr. Mantis Toboggan

mike_ie wrote: »

Wut?

Taken from the very link you posted:

Refrigerator (frost-free, 16 cubic feet) = 725W
Clothes dryer = 1800–5000W

Clean headshot there. Well played sir.

Another sucessful internet victory.

KungPao

My old (and old-fashioned) uncle lives alone and uses the dryer even on hot dry days...would not use the line in case someone saw him :pac: Tis a woman's job after all.

Clothes on balconies can make even the nicest apartment block look like tenements, but at the same time it is beyond ridiculous to have clothes on a horse thing spread out in the living room, all that damp can't be good either.

Apartments should have utility rooms with windows, where you can hang up clothes...that's what they do in Brazil, makes a lot of sense. Inside - so they wont get rained on (and quick and easy to hang) and are barely visible from outside while being beside a window they dry quickly and there is ventilation.

shruikan2553

Maybe I'm drying my clothes wrong on the balcony but people here make it sound like you attach your washing on a stick and wave it around to make the place look like it has more flags than northern Ireland.

Mink

I actually like seeing washing hanging out in all the other back gardens around me, for the simple reason that it signals "warm dry weather".

I am one of those that hangs washing out late at night and then take it in dry after work the next day. My mother-in-law is horrified. I only do it when there is no sign of rain on my weather app for that night & the next day.

Once in a while something will get bird poo on it, it just goes back in the wash.

Can't beat that dried-outside smell.

KungPao

Mink wrote: »

I actually like seeing washing hanging out in all the other back gardens around me, for the simple reason that it signals "warm dry weather".

I am one of those that hangs washing out late at night and then take it in dry after work the next day. My mother-in-law is horrified. I only do it when there is no sign of rain on my weather app for that night & the next day.

Once in a while something will get bird poo on it, it just goes back in the wash.

Can't beat that dried-outside smell.

This is very true. Sure beats the faint smell of yesterday's greasy chicken curry that you rustled up in the kitchen.

bettyswollocks

I cant leave washing out on the line in my estate. Clothing goes missing, happened to a few neighbours, and always late at night.

Theres a guy next door who hangs tea bags out to dry on the line, reuses them when they are dried.

delw

I live in a nice apartment block & we all put bamboo on the balcony glass so washing is not visible & actually adds to the look IMO

Soups123

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:

As young immature teenagers we used to jump the backs at night as teenagers swapping neighbors closes around the shopping lines.

There was this one guy who lived on his own we used to collect all the nicks, bra's and womans socks we could find a completely load his line.

Mad basta***....................

Czarcasm

bettyswollocks wrote: »

I cant leave washing out on the line in my estate. Clothing goes missing, happened to a few neighbours, and always late at night.

Theres a guy next door who hangs tea bags out to dry on the line, reuses them when they are dried.

One for the stingiest things you've ever seen thread

o1s1n

Mink wrote: »

Can't beat that dried-outside smell.

Are you sure that isn't just the smell of damp?

Any time I accidentally left clothes overnight on the line, they'd have an awful bang of damp off them.

Ditch

My line's broken. Wind pushed the tree and snapped the line. I just haven't got the arse to put that ladder up against that vile tree again. Getting too old for that game

Hedge for me then .....

miezekatze

o1s1n wrote: »

Are you sure that isn't just the smell of damp?

Any time I accidentally left clothes overnight on the line, they'd have an awful bang of damp off them.

My clothes have never smelled of damp when I left them out over night.. and I've never even considered bugs and things like that when drying outside, I think that's a bit OTT really.

I can only really do the washing after I come home from work, so I hang it out in the evening and then take it off the following evening when it's dry. I hate drying clothes inside so I hang it out whenever I can, it just smells so much nicer! I used to live in an apartment block where we weren't allowed to dry clothes on the balcony at all and the stuff always took ages to dry inside and often smelled of damp (we did have a washer/dryer but the drying function was pretty useless). How is that more 'hygienic' than drying things outside?!

catallus

mike_ie wrote: »

Wut?

Taken from the very link you posted:

Refrigerator (frost-free, 16 cubic feet) = 725W
Clothes dryer = 1800–5000W

That's the wattage of the appliance, silly.

What you should be looking at is the usage of power i.e Kilowatt-hours.

If you look at the graph in the link a fridge will use just over 1000 kWhrs per year and a clothes-dryer will use just under 1000 kWhrs per year.

I know people will say "But the fridge is in constant use and the dryer is only used now and again!" but those people are obviously under the thumb of the fridge manufacturers.

Numbers can be your friend, but they can lie to you too, especially if they want to sleep with your girlfriend. :mad:

Sh1tbag OToole

kylith wrote: »

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


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.

Now that I think of it the place I lived had a similar rule

Mint Aero

The_Valeyard wrote: »

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

Birds only sh*t on white surfaces.

Sir Arthur Daley

Mint Aero wrote: »

Birds only sh*t on white surfaces.

They shit on black surfaces too, the round bales of silage do be destroyed.

Mint Aero

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

They shit on black surfaces too, the round bales of silage do be destroyed.

No they don't. I've never seen a bale destroyed with bird poo. Farmers put white paint on them though, maybe that's what you saw?