I just re-read my last post, and it's strange that one's view can change so completely over such a short time. Two weeks later and the prospect of selling Drylines seems easy. The Rotaire Dryline sells itself! The only matters that prevent more sales are uncertainty (because it is a totally new concept) and the relatively high price. It is obvious when the Dryline is shown to a customer that it is well made, without cutting corners - and that the Dryline is made to last, unlike so many imported products.
I look forward to the Malvern Spring Gardening Show, where people show such enthusiasm for the idea. After all, it is so simple, and so obvious, that if you want to dry clothes in the British climate you need to cover the laundry. The Rotaire Dryline washing line rain cover is the first and only cover to fit existing airers - across the range.
Roll on the April Showers!
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Your video has vanished - is that a blip or have you pulled it?
Dropping in to continue the comment I left on Mel's site, I do think your invention is an interesting one, and I suspect that one has to see and try it before knowing whether using one would become a useful part of one's routine or whether it would be a gadget one would find too fiddly to bother with regularly.
The main difficulty I can see is that it is no higher than the rotary line, which is necessarily at an easily reachable height. Therefore, one would either have to cower down to be inside or have a side up and get wet while hanging out the washing. And then the dried washing (not bone dry, presumably, as it can't be drier than the air, so it would need finishing off indoors) would get rained on too.
You've obviously put a huge amount of work and money into this project, and I hope sales do take off. We obviously need to use tumble driers as little as possible.
Thanks for the comment Z, Your point about the rotary line is sound, bu tmost airers are sufficiently high to get under. The airer in the video was owned by a very short person whereas my daughter (shown) is tall. You just flick the skirt over the cover and the weights hold it there.
The washing can be bone dry while it is raining. It's perverse but true, for instance if it rains the pavement gets wet. Yet within 10 minutes the pavement is dry - which means that the air is drier than the rain passing through it. Therefore if the laundry is covered it will dry. Clients have reported that even during this January they were getting frozen washing in that was nearly dry - certainly it was ready to iron finish. Thanks for the comment, and the chance to explain.
Hmmm, I mostly access my dryer from above the strings, not below. I don't think it would go high enough for me to go underneath easily.
So you don't mind getting wet while hanging out the washing in the rain, Neil? This is fair enough in a drizzle, but surely it's a bit miserable in a downpour?
Sorry to sound so picky about this, Mac, but you've got an interesting product and if I'm going to consider buying one I have to convince myself I'd actually use it. I'm a lazy old bird and if it's too inconvenient I'd not bother.
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