Comments on: Well Hung: How Your Clothesline Will Save The Planet

By: David

David — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:28:19 +0000

I have been using a clothes line for probably ten years now….last year I built a 4-barrel line….each one is about 40′ long…..I have a large load washer and I can get 2 very full loads on the lines…….and in the winter I use my racks in close proximity to my woodstove…..I only use dryer to soften the things that need softening after they have been solar dried or dried on the rack…….and I am convinced that on a good sunny day I can dry clothes way faster than u could in the dryer……….those two loads that I hang on the line would be 4 loads in the dryer at 45 mins. to an hour each……..in the right conditions I can dry all four of those dryer loads in one hour in the sun……just makes a whole lot of sense to me………..

By: Nadiza

Nadiza — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:04:00 +0000

I live in the USA and I’ve always line-dried during warm-weather months. Two years ago I started using drying racks for all my laundry during the winter. During this nearly 2.5 years of mostly air-drying the laundry, I have air-dried over 97.5% . Yes, there was a drop in the utility bills. Yes, the indoor quality of the air improved with the added moisture from drying laundry. And I have no intention of going back to using the dryer more frequently. Life is simpler. Clothes easier to fold and doing laundry does not feel like a chore.

By: Carla

Carla — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:23:49 +0000

We’ve been using an indoor drying rack for years. It sits in the laundry room…or sometimes over the vents in winter for quicker drying. We used to have a clothesline outside, but didn’t like berry-stained bird poop and odd pollen stains (it was near a maple tree). Still, for two people, the indoor rack is fine…and nobody has to see our underwear but us!