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 enlarge | Brand: Whitney Designs
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $69.99
Buy New: $42.97
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 4340
Shipping Weight (lbs): 13.2
Dimensions (in): 84 x 72 x 72
MPN: 3000
Model: 3000
UPC: 021961300008
EAN: 0021961300008
ASIN: B00124TUUE
Release Date: April 25, 2008
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 Best of all I've had in my entire life. (I'm 53) March 23, 2008
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
As an adult living in warm Orange County, Sunny Southern California, I like to dry my laundry outdoors. We are a family of five, and this has alot of room for my needs. I leave mine up year-round. I like this design better than the umbrella style. It is more usefull with space for drying clothes. Thank you for a wonderful, useful, needed product.
Great product. March 26, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The clothesline was easy to install. It really does hold alot of clothes. The rotation of the line is very smooth. I am enjoying the smell of air dried laundry, just like when I was a little girl.
Great energy saver July 31, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I ordered this clothesline for my suburban backyard, largely to combat high electric bills from using the dryer. (It adds up quickly for a family.) It arrived in good condition. Installation consisted of: dig a hole 20 inches deep by 8 inches wide, add some stones to the bottom of the hole, mix a bag of concrete (50 pound bag is about right; 80 pound will give you some left overs), put 6 inches of concrete in hole, set plastic sleeve in ground, fill rest of hole with concrete, insert bottom pole section and make it plumb (straight; use a level), remove pole and drive a stick or dowel through the sleeve and into the ground (for drainage), then let the concrete dry according to instructions. The next day, insert the bottom pole section then add the top section and (GENTLY, to avoid damage to the lines) open it up.
The open/close action on the unit is very easy, but you have to watch out that the lines are on the proper side of the pole. Mine always gets a bit tangled, requiring a couple of attempts before everything is undone. One product improvement would be to reduce the number of surfaces (hinges/pivots) that the lines can catch on.
Setting the clothesline in the ground according to the instructions will place the lines about 73 inches (183 cm) off the ground. This is high enough for a good sized bath towel to clear the ground below. The overall height (top of the center pole) is about 82 inches. If you're working within a POA/HOA height restriction, you could always remove a bit from the bottom of the lower section using a hacksaw.
How well does it work? Great! Clothes get dry in a hurry here in the Texas sun. The lines have stretched a bit with the first few uses, but it's easy to tighten them. The instructions indicate they'll quit stretching after a few uses. The instructions indicate that the unit should be loaded evenly, which is easily done by simply rotating the upper section as you hang the clothes.
Any complaints? One, it's easy to tangle the lines or catch them on hinges when opening/closing the unit. Two, the steel main post comes with a thin coating of grease that should be removed before use. Third, the item is made in China.
Clothes line or not? May 26, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Well lets just keep it simple. I have 80-100 degree weather here at Hidden Valley Lake CA. Why run the clothes dryer when it creates heat in the house when at the same time you are trying to keep your house at a bearable temp. A clothes line to dry your clothes makes it a no brainer.
Takes a little work(I didn't do it but husband did) to get it in the ground. From there my job is simple and saves money that I can put towards keeping the house at a good temp for the little ones and myself too!
Love the way it fans out and can fit lots of clothes on it at one time.
Clothes come in so fresh and so clean! Love it.
Thinking of getting one? This one is for you! Use it, enjoy it, save your dryer money, and put it towards having a nice cool house (78 deg.)!
very useful drying rack June 21, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm very happy with this umbrella dryer. You're technically supposed to install it by digging a hole and filling it with cement and then putting the holding sleeve insdie, but I just put the sleeve straight into the dirt and it works fine. Not quite as stable, but certainly stable enough, and it skips that pain-in-the-butt installation step.
Once you have the sleeve in the ground, the umbrella sets up easily and can also fold up and be stored elsewhere, which is nice. I've found that the lines usually get a little tangled, but they're easy to untangle when putting the drying rack up.
Hanging the clothes on the rack is simple. One nice aspect about the umbrella is that it rotates, so you can just stand in one spot and rotate it around as needed while hanging clothes. It's got tons of drying space too. I could probably fit 3 full loads of laundry on it at once, except we never have more than one or two at a time.
One aspect my wife was concerned about is that in her experience, drying clothes outside on clotheslines tends to make them stiff. It turns out in our experience that's only been a problem for towels, but clothes stay reasonably soft and loose.
The only significant downside is that it takes a little while to hang the clothes up, whereas it only takes a few seconds to toss them into a dryer. Still, you're saving a lot of energy and money by not running the dryer, so I think it's well worth it. In reasonably warm weather the clothes only take about 2 hours to dry, which is quicker than I expected.
Overall I'm quite happy with this outdoor umbrella dryer.
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