Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Hills Hoist in plain sight of living areas: yea or nay? 10Feb 16, 2010 7:48 am Pfiff Finally making progress again, with a clothesline (yippee) and some much needed little things being attended to over the holidays. 40 C on New Year's eve? We love our a/c! Re: Hills Hoist in plain sight of living areas: yea or nay? 12Feb 16, 2010 8:15 am I would choose neither and go for a wall mounted retractable one out of view, which is what we are getting. I dislike the hinged ones and though i like a hills hoist i think you have to have a fairly large back yard for it not to intrude very much; i think i'd prefer that space to have as turf for the kids to run around on. The reality is you probably aren't going to remove it very often... even with our wall retractable one we are getting a removable post for it but realise we aren't going to remove it very often so we're putting it at the very edge of the yard. means more walking from laundry but it means its out of view and not in middle of kids playing area. if its only out of those two though, i would go the HH. "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: Hills Hoist in plain sight of living areas: yea or nay? 13Feb 16, 2010 8:59 am I must say I'm a huge fan of the Hills hoist as it gets a lot of air and sun and is easy to use and takes plenty of clothes. I've never used a wall one but think we may go with one for the new house (site start this week or next). I was thinking of getting this one http://www.qualityclotheslines.net/imagesofadda35.html as it's big enough for sheets. But if we have enough room I'd love the hills hoist. I'll have to wait until we've moved in to determine. At the moment I used the HH and 2 clothes horses for smaller loads or when it's cold outside. Clothes horses are great as you can move them around anywhere you like. Life is; then you tell yourself a story. Re: Hills Hoist in plain sight of living areas: yea or nay? 14Feb 16, 2010 9:07 am I suppose one of my biggest issues is that I don't like drying clothes in full sunlight due to bleaching, synthetic breakdown and elastic/rubber breakdown... with a HH they have to be dried in the sun on sunny days. Re: Hills Hoist in plain sight of living areas: yea or nay? 15Feb 16, 2010 9:58 am Hey - I'm going for the retractable one on the blind side of my house - my hubby's T-Shirts have a tendency to get sun bleached and it really does look bad. I don't really want my washing in the sun (i know that's crazy but i would rather the wind dry my clothes!) - or for the clothes to be visible to guests I am also getting a heating duct installed into my laundry for drying clothes in winter!!! Close the door and it's like a sauna in there - but a great cheap way to dry clothes - better than the crazy electricity bills I'm getting now for being a dryer junkie - if I'm already running the heater in the cold weather I'll be killing 2 birds with 1 stone!!!! Sleven Moved into our Atlantique MkII 36 by Carlisle Homes Re: Hills Hoist in plain sight of living areas: yea or nay? 16Feb 16, 2010 11:30 am Hinged wall mounted, only because that is what I have, and no one can see my washing! Apart from the fact that I don't have room for a HH. I had to find one that was wide enough to fit sheets (unscrunched) on the line, which I did. I have 36m of line space, it's double decker and I can fit 2 1/2 full loads from a 7.5kg F&P top loader. I love it, and it gets plenty of sun and breezes where it is (North side of house next to the HWS). I just have to do something about the mud underneath after it rains! Henley - Wilshire Mk 3 ... I love my house!! Site start: 4th Feb 09 Handover: 10th Sep 09 Blog: http://stormygirlscastle.blogspot.com/ Build Thread: viewtopic.php?t=7166 Re: Hills Hoist in plain sight of living areas: yea or nay? 17Feb 16, 2010 12:06 pm Hills Hoist for sure!! We got one of the internal wall mounted ones as part of our inclusions but we'll also be putting up a Hills Hoist in the backyard. They hold more and the fact that they can blow around in the breeze is excellent for drying times. We used to have one of those ones that can fold up and also be taken out of it's spot in the ground. It was fantastic! Re: Hills Hoist in plain sight of living areas: yea or nay? 19Feb 16, 2010 1:03 pm Gambarol Go the Hills Hoist. Heaps more capacity and your kids gets hours of entertainment swinging around and around and around and around. I always got told off for doing that on my nan's Thanks again Simeon for being so elaborate. Appreciate it. Its gives us a very idea. Kind Regards 4 4270 3 5978 Can anyone suggest a house layout where the kitchen-dining - living runs the length across the rear of the house left to right where our best view will be we… 0 4617 |