If you are allocating a long and narrow space for drying your laundry like a balcony or walkway around the perimeter of your home, your best bet will be a retractable, folding, or ceiling mounted clothesline.

For those with spacious yards, retractables and folding clotheslines are good choices too but so are capacious portable airers and rotary hoists! These will undoubtably make short work of your family's week's worth of clothes letting you dry everything in just one sitting.

Capacities, Features, and Everything Else

Since we've already got the basics covered, let's "calculate" how much drying line space you actually need in order to narrow down the categories and easily pinpoint which is the perfect clothesline for your North Suburb home.

Many manufacturers and stores say that 10 metres of drying line space is enough for one person, we think that's a little too conservative because they might only be taking into account the clothes you're going to dry... what about the beddings, curtains, and such?

We think that 11 to 12 metres of line space per person in a household (doesn't matter what the age is) is the perfect amount, not to little not an overkill either. It is enough for those last minute laundry drying emergencies like when friends or relatives come over for an extended stay.