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Can you put your clothes on a fire escape? Or in your bathroom (works great if you have a bathroom with a window).
by jdavis703 10y ago
Can you put your clothes on a fire escape? Or in your bathroom (works great if you have a bathroom with a window).
- FullMtlAlcoholc 10y agoAlternatively, a clothes rack on a balcony or receiving direct sunlight through a window or glass sliding door, with both slightly ajar works well. One benefit of this is that your clothes last much longer.
- _delirium 10y agoIn the winter, I find they dry quite quickly if I just put the clothes rack indoors near a radiator.
- celticninja 10y agoHowever never hang clothes on a radiator to dry, this is the least efficient method of using your radiators.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoIf you have city central radiated heating, then making the radiators less effective is just a bonus of getting your clothes to dry a bit faster.
- celticninja 10y agoI'm not sure how common that is, the only place I have heard of it is in some Scandinavian countries but if you know otherwise i would love to hear about it.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoAll of northern china is like this. I'm sure much of Russia is also, its a pretty common thing spread by the soviets (socialized heating....).
- ergothus 10y agoEvery apartment complex I've lived in has had rules banning hanging clothes (no idea about enforcement). Also, for any group larger than 2 I imagine the clothes would not dry fast enough to keep up. And most bathrooms are small and often without a window. Not a complaint, just pointing out that sun-drying is often not a real choice. Often it is.
- jasonmp85 10y agoMany management types will attempt to tell you that you can't hang clothes on a line. In nineteen states, such rules are explicitly prohibited by state law: http://www.sightline.org/2012/02/21/clothesline-bans-void-in-19-states/ http://www.sightline.org/2012/02/21/clothesline-bans-void-in... . They have the cheeky name of "right to dry states". A related thing often banned is external over-the-air antennas, protected by US federal law.
- vitus 10y agoWell, the focus in that particular article is on HOA bans, not apartment ones. For instance, the Hawaii law (the first one I clicked on that seemed particularly cut-and-dried) is restricted to single-family homes and townhomes. "The purpose of this Act is to prohibit real estate contracts, agreements, and rules from precluding or rendering ineffective the use of clotheslines on the premises of [b]single-family dwellings or townhouses[/b]." [0] http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/bills/SB1338_CD1_.pdf http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/bills/SB1338_CD1_....
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoLiving in Beijing, we never dried our clothes outside the apartment. We had racks in the kitchen for that. I don't think management companies can ban drying inside! It sounds unenforceable.
- sambe 10y agoIt's considered reasonable to endanger lives to dry washing? (I don't live in the US).
- jdavis703 10y agoWell obviously don't be stupid where you put the clothes, (I.e. don't block egress).