Air drying laundry ban: Wasting energy for what? (fence, cost, elect)

[pbmaise]

Yesterday I was reading rules for a marina I am thinking of moving to. Despite always having wet clothes to dry and high cost of electricity made by diesel power plants on an island with tons of solar energy, hanging anything to dry is banned.

I have been doing all my wash aboard by hand and hanging to dry.

Should neighborhoods be allowed to force people to waste energy like this?

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by pbmaise

Yesterday I was reading rules for a marina I am thinking of moving to. Despite always having wet clothes to dry and high cost of electricity made by diesel power plants on an island with tons of solar energy, hanging anything to dry is banned.

I have been doing all my wash aboard by hand and hanging to dry.

Should neighborhoods be allowed to force people to waste energy like this?

What would be the purpose of this ban? Seems like the stupidest law ever created, next to the old bans on interracial marriage

[T-310]

Originally Posted by pbmaise

Yesterday I was reading rules for a marina I am thinking of moving to. Despite always having wet clothes to dry and high cost of electricity made by diesel power plants on an island with tons of solar energy, hanging anything to dry is banned.

I have been doing all my wash aboard by hand and hanging to dry.

Should neighborhoods be allowed to force people to waste energy like this?

I guess some idiot doesn't want to see your drawers?

Do it anyway.

[PilgrimsProgress]

If I hung my clothes outside, they'd be stolen

[sware2cod]

Originally Posted by PilgrimsProgress

If I hung my clothes outside, they'd be stolen

Where do you live?

[Ringo1]

We can thank all the HOA's for that. I still hang up a ton of laundry - I just have to do it in my laundry room as opposed to outside.


Doesn't dry as fast.

[moneill]

Again we create these 'monsters' to hate -- those HOA's - it's all THEIR fault.

What are HOA's -- your neighbors. Your neighbors don't want to live in a community where people hang stuff up outside to dry.

It's us people that don't want to see laundry hanging outside -- lol.

I know -- it's a pain. I don't have a clothes line but I still have a clothes rack that I place outside on my small masterbedroom balcony to dry clothes -- sssssshhhhh -- don't tell anybody. Lucky for me there is no one behind me to see it.

[glamatomic]

HOAs seem to frequently have an outside laundry ban in my parts. Maybe they think it makes things look messy?

When I lived in an apartment, I strung some clothes up on my balcony on a large-ish drying rack and got cited by the apartment management for it. I do realize it would look pretty messy if everyone did it - but having just moved to the U.S at the time (from a country where everyone hangs their laundry out) it never even occurred to me.

It seems that HOAs and some apartment complexes want to keep things looking pristine.

Where I live now doesn't have a ban, or if they do, it isn't enforced.

[Frank DeForrest]

Originally Posted by pbmaise

Yesterday I was reading rules for a marina I am thinking of moving to. Despite always having wet clothes to dry and high cost of electricity made by diesel power plants on an island with tons of solar energy, hanging anything to dry is banned.

I have been doing all my wash aboard by hand and hanging to dry.

Should neighborhoods be allowed to force people to waste energy like this?

Its the marina's property, they get to make the rules. And since you dont have to rent there, you arent being "forced" into anything.

[Zoisite]

Originally Posted by pbmaise

Yesterday I was reading rules for a marina I am thinking of moving to. ....... hanging anything to dry is banned. ........ Should neighborhoods be allowed to force people to waste energy like this?

Is there a laundromat facility on the property? Is the marina a privately owned and operated business that rents out docking space from their own waterfront property? ...... or is the marina owned and operated by the city? Who makes up the rules for the marina? If it's a privately owned marina the owners are within their rights to institute rules that might ban a number of practices and activities that aren't suitable or safe for the facility or that lower the property values of the facility.

I think in some residential locations it's necessary to institute an no outdoor laundry drying ban for public safety and property safety reasons, and in other locations it should be okay. Like for example it should be okay in a residential neighbourhood with all houses and yards, where a house has a laundry line or drying rack out in their fenced back yard where it doesn't pose a hazard and isn't visible to the public from the street.

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