Dorm Clothes Line

Stick it to your boarding school dryer monopoly by constructing an easy to build clothes line. It pays for it's self after only a few loads.

Step 1 Consider your situation

Are you a penny pinching boarding school student? Do you have rope? Do you have a means of creatively attaching that rope across your dorm room? Can you save money on drying your laundry?

The answer is yes.

Clothes lines are old fashion technology and usually work best outside on a sunny day. After a little experiment we found out they work inside just fine too. Even in winter, as long as your dorm isn't absolutely frigid you can still dry your clothes for free. I'm not kidding, no really... I go to boarding school in Northern Maine only a few miles from the Canadian border, it's COLD! However, with a little ingenuity and time you can still have an effective clothes line.

Here is a picture of one of the clothes lines we've put up in my time at school. http://www.instructables.com/files/deriv/FKL/KNYQ/FKX1DC8G/FKLKNYQFKX1DC8G.MEDIUM.jpg

Comments

[nemetzj]

Nice tutorial, but laundry at my college is free :) sorry

[htikeagkyaw]

Is that a wireless antannae?

[Scammah]

Would it be a terrible idea to air dry my clothes in the garage? I think I know the answer to this just curious what people think.

[static]

Depends on the garage. Dusty, and drafty not a good idea. Oders that will impart on the clean clothes, again not a good idea.

[ybunnygurl]

Me and a roomie did this at college, best money saver ever!

[radiobath]

Stupid question: did you go to Hyde? Pictures remind me of my sister's room there.

[brokengun]

 Nope, this was actually taken at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics. Funny that those rooms looked similar to Hyde seeing as this dorm was actually a middle school converted to dorms. Our ceilings were 10 feet high which is why this clothesline worked out so well. 

[Undercurrent88]

wow, i thought my dorm was messy

[Tobita]

During winter in Canada, winter can get pretty dry, so this seems to be NUMBER (fast U and rolled R are needs) 1!

[whizart!]

High-tech.

[whizart!]

Good gods, did you really had to make an Instructable for that???

[hikari]

ok. This is gonna sound like total common sense but a girl in my building made this mistake before. Do Not Tie the Rope from the sprinkler... ;3

[stephenniall]

Hehehehehe blondes hey ... Bet there was water everywhere

[Babyshoes]

Cool use of existing materials, but is there a reason you didn't just get a free standing, folding, clothes airer? We live in a flat with no drier, and use the airer for all small clothes and the bannister for larger items like jeans. It works fine!

[brokengun]

We didn't use a folding rack because there is very little floor space in our room. Also, it wouldn't hold nearly the amount of clothes we dry on a weekly basis. I suppose you could use a rack if you wanted to walk around it for the day or so it was drying. The great thing about the line is once you take off the clothes, you forget it's there. I like your idea of using the bannister too. I used to shut the end of t-shirts in my dresser drawers and let them hang down. That works too.