Camping Clotheslines
 

Some caravan tourist parks will not permit you to hang your washing around your RV or tent and may restrict you to using their clothes lines or clothes hoists near the amenities block.

Pegless Clothes Lines – these clothes lines come up to 2.5m in length and no pegs are required as you simply tuck the clothes between the elastic.

Kent Clothes Line (pictured above) – this clothes line is made by Danny Kent of Morphet Vale, South Australia (awningclothesline@gmail.com or Mobile 0403251369). It has two brackets that attach to the awning arms and has two lines on which to peg your clothes.  It can be reversed so it will place your clothes under the awning. We use this product and find it very handy and compact.  The brackets are powder coated and are made to fit the width of your awning arm and length of the awning.

Mrs Pegg’s Handy Line – these are sturdy free standing fold-up powder coated aluminium clothes lines that come in two sizes.  Although the smaller version of Mrs Pegg’s handy line is 154cm long, 69cm wide, weights only 2.6 kg and a folded depth of 7cm it may present a storage problem for some RV travellers when travelling.  This smaller line when erected stands 128 cm and it has 8 lines.

Portable Clothes Airer – this wire clothes airer is vinyl coated and designed to hook over a door or towel rail and folds away when not in use. 

Pee Wee Portable Clothes Line – this 3 line portable clothes line is available from Camec.

When using these wire clothes airers make sure they don’t scrub on the exterior of your RV or the door you are hanging them on.

Flinbex Clothes Line – there is the 70 cm folding clothes line with a pull out drying rack or a 80 cm concertina style folding clothes line.  The concertina version comes with brackets you can affix to the side of your RV and it slides out of the fixed brackets and can be put away whilst in transit.  It is lightweight and has 9 bars on which to peg clothes. Make sure you put silicone or sikaflex sealant over the screw holes for the brackets when fixing them to your RV.  

Fiama Folding Clothes Line Airer (4 rail) – this anodized aluminium clothes airer comes with a bracket for fixing on the caravan ‘A’ frame or draw bar.

RV Internal Drying Ideas

Using Shower cubicle – some RV owners who have a Webasto Air Top or Eberspacher Airtronic diesel air blown heaters (see related articles on these optional extras) have had an extra air heating outlet vented into the shower cubicle and use it as a drying room for clothes.

Four Seasons Hatch – curtain rails have been used in this instance to accommodate up to 4 drying rails. Very handy to hang your towels to dry especially whilst in transit.