Clothes line

A clothes line is a rope, it can be suspended from the clothes to dry. Clotheslines can be installed on balconies or outdoor terraces. In laundry drying in the house clotheslines are mainly installed in rooms where the resulting humidity no possible damage occurs, for example bathroom. As attachment points for clotheslines mounted in walls hooks are used ( for indoor and outdoor installation ), trees or posts. For outside installations, the lines are placed in around 1.50 meters to 2 meters in height to prevent contamination of the washing hanging out to wash as a result of contact with the ground.

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In some regions of the United States, for example, in California, clotheslines are not popular in residential areas, since they usually connects with poverty and some are disturbed by the sight of other garments including underwear; In many places there are prohibitions against ( publicly visible ) clotheslines. People dry the laundry there is usually only with a clothes dryer.

Various installation options

A special type of laundry drying by means of lines, the high clothesline; they do consists of a rope, which is installed with two roles in two high-altitude mounting points.

At one of the accessible fixing points that aufhängende laundry items from the suspension point are gone - or moves by manual traction.

Other common forms of leash attachment are clotheslines on folding racks as the drying stand. These are used mainly in buildings, but also on balconies and terraces.

Outdoors also removable, rotating hinged racks ( clothes dryer ) come with clotheslines used.

Various materials

Are usual three variants: Gummiummantel with polypropylene core Gummiummantel with steel core or sisal clotheslines.

The individual materials have the following advantages and disadvantages: