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Balcony clothes dryer

For those who live in multi-storey buildings, drying clothes is an urgent problem. Hanging out from the balcony is not very pleasant ourselves, and not in all cities is permissible. For many, the exit is a clothes dryer on the balcony. They are available in different models and methods of mounting or installation.

The content of the article

1 Installation method
2 Ceiling models
3 Wall models
4 Floor standing installation
5 Selection options
6 Photos of interesting ideas

Installation method

According to the installation method, the clothes dryer on the balcony can be:

ceiling;
wall;
outdoor;
hinged.
The most different in appearance, fastening, volume and performance

From the names, the features of the installation of each model are clear. Explanations may only be needed on the wall-mounted dryer. They are usually small in size - 60-100 cm long, for 3-6 ropes / rungs (pictured).

Hanging dryer for clothes on the balcony

Equipped with two or three large diameter hooks that allow you to hook the structure to horizontal partitions, for example, a balcony railing. They can be located indoors or outdoors, so the option is mobile and convenient. It's just that you need to find a place for storage or make loops on the wall, for which you can hook a mounted clothes dryer.

Ceiling models

Dryers for clothes, fixed on the ceiling of a balcony or loggia - one of the most popular models. They are two slats with crossbars or ropes attached to them, on which the linen is hung.

There are two main types of balcony ceiling dryers:

With independent suspension of each plank. The most popular models in this group are called Liana and GIMI Lift. This is one and the same design, just Russian (Liana) or foreign manufacturers. They are easy to use, as they allow you to lower and raise one bar at a time, and place them at different heights.
Ceiling Mounted Laundry Dryer
One suspension for the whole structure. Several bars (from 2 to 6) are fixed on telescopic hangers. They can be lowered and raised only together.

The second option is easier to install, less expensive, but less convenient. All planks are at the same height. This makes it difficult for laundry that is close to the wall or in the middle rows to dry. The second point: a dryer loaded with wet laundry is not so easy to lift.

This is "Liana" with a ceiling mount

Independently suspended dryers are a little more difficult to install. All crossbars are attached to two slats on the ceiling, but there is a rope to each of them, which allows you to lower / raise the bars for hanging clothes. So during installation, in addition to installing the crossbars on the ceiling, it is necessary to fix a bar on the nearby wall, on which the ropes are fixed. The rails in this type of ceiling dryers can be made of plastic, powder-coated steel (Gimi) or aluminum (Liana). You can find wooden beams from other manufacturers, but those listed above are represented by a large number of models.

Wall models

The most famous model is a wall-mounted clothes dryer on a balcony with a string attached to opposite walls. In self-made versions, hooks are driven into the wall or a bar is attached to which all the same hooks are fixed (these can be nails bent upwards). Twine / thin ropes are stretched between these hooks. This is a well-known option for everyone. Far from the most aesthetic, but the cheapest and very widespread.

An improved and refined version - a clothes dryer on the balcony with twisting ropes. It consists of two parts: a stationary one, which is attached to one of the walls, and a mobile one, which we attach to the opposite wall before hanging the laundry, and remove it when it is dry and removed.

Compact balcony wall-mounted clothes rack

There are more designs of wall-mounted clothes dryers for balconies and loggias. They have one thing in common - they attach to corner or T-shaped brackets. And the structure can be very different. For a small amount of laundry, folding wall dryers on the balcony are convenient. When folded, they do not clutter up the space, they unfold and fold easily - you just need to pull on the extreme bar and you can hang the laundry. The model is also easy to fold - just push the outer plank towards the wall. Everything folds into a compact rectangle.

Folding wall-mounted clothes dryer on the balcony

These dryers have one drawback: you can't hang anything on them when closed. And you can lay them out only as a whole - you can't push one or two slats.

Also, folding wall dryers do not clutter up the space. They represent a frame with stretched ropes or fixed rods. The frame is movably fixed directly to the wall or to the body. It can be fixed with stops, strips, chains. If you want to make a clothes dryer for the balcony with your own hands, these are the simplest, most reliable and compact models.

The designs are very simple, easy to do by hand

If necessary, it is folded back, the angle of inclination is determined by side holders - stop strips, but there are models with dense tapes.

There is also a wall-mounted version of the "Liana" described above. In this case, the bracket to which the strips are attached is fixed on the wall higher, the strip with adjustment threads on the same wall, but lower.

Drying "Liana" in the wall mounting option

When installing wall-mounted models of clothes dryers, it is advisable to fix them using all the holes that are in the brackets. Then one can hope that even when loaded to the maximum, they will not fall.

Floor standing installation

This group does not require installation at all, but to save space, floor dryers are usually folded. For the most part, they are made from thin metal pipes coated with powder paint. More expensive models can be made of stainless steel, and there are also wooden ones. The latter are mostly homemade. In any case, wooden ones are rare in our stores.

Various models and materials

In any more or less large store, there are models with folding legs and folding sides. Moreover, there are both simple models and electric heating. In this case, a low-power heating element is built into the tubes on which the laundry is hung. If the tube is touched while the heater is operating, it will feel pleasantly warm to the touch, but not hot, so there will be no harm even to the most delicate fabrics.

Electrically heated

Models of heated clothes dryers may have heaters only in one of the parts (as in the photo above) or over the entire working surface. In the second case, the power consumption is greater, but not by much, since the surface is heated only slightly.

There are a lot of folding floor dryers for clothes. After all, linen has always been dried since a person had clothes. So the masters are trying to come up with something interesting, roomy and, at the same time, compact.

There are floor structures for every taste and color.

Selection options

A clothes dryer on the balcony is selected not only by design, but also by parameters:

number of rods and their length;
rod material;
brackets material.

Everything is clear from the materials. The best, but also the most expensive, is stainless steel. Just don't confuse it with chrome steel. As a rule, chrome plating flies around very quickly, after which the metal begins to rust. Ordinary steel in powder coating behaves well, but only if the technology was not violated during painting. Otherwise, rusty spots will also "climb".

A very good combined option: the supporting parts of the structure are made of steel with a powder coating, and the lintels on which the linen is hung are made of plastic. This type of dryers can be called optimal in terms of price / quality combination. Modern plastics are a fairly strong material that can withstand the load from linen, it is not very expensive and does not change its performance for a long time. But in the supporting structures, especially at the joints of the legs of folding floor models, the presence of plastic is undesirable. There is still too much load for plastic.

In the places marked with arrows, plastic is not the best option

In places marked with arrows, plastic is not the best option

The set of characteristics will determine how convenient or not it is to use a particular model. For example, for drying bed linen, rods with a length of at least 2 meters are optimal. In this case, any part of the double set can be hung without folding.

External clothes dryer for balcony or loggia

The amount of laundry that can be hung in one go is determined by the total length of the rods. It is usually in the description, but if not, then the number of rods can be multiplied by the length. So we get the same characteristic. Here, of course, the larger the number, the more laundry you can hang. But, on the other hand, the more space on the balcony or loggia will need to be taken away under the dryer.

Photos of interesting ideas

A tumble dryer can also be original and interesting. There are models that are convenient and compact, there are those that surprise with the presence of technical "bells and whistles". In general, interesting models are presented below.