Green Facts

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Rotaire

The Rotaire Dryline™ rain cover, available from www.rotaire.com
• made to save laundry from the rain.
• It also saves you time, energy and money.
• Makes a rotary airer useful 90%of the time as opposed to 20%(if you’re lucky!)
• Payback in 6 months,
• Becomes part of the airer; not a throw-over
• lowers your carbon footprint.

HOW DO YOU DRY YOUR WASHING OUTSIDE IN BAD WEATHER?
Okay, so you’ve just done a load of washing and the heavens open. It’s pouring down!

You rush outside and grab all the laundry you can before it gets soaked. You then hang it everywhere you can indoors. This causes damp as well as rooms full of wet washing needed for the next day: it is a miserable scenario, yet we all do it!

WITH THE ROTAIRE DRYLINE YOU DON’T NEED TO! It is a rain cover for washing on a rotary airer, like an umbrella.

Or you can stick the washing in a tumble dryer. This wastes valuable electricity; have you checked your bills lately? Each drying cycle will cost almost £1 on top of the cost of the wash itself. It also heats the outside air and contributes unnecessarily to climate change. Each wash produces kilogrammes of CO2 in the generation of the energy used. We should all be addressing this greenhouse gas pollution by reducing our carbon footprint:

A DRYLINE CAN REPAY ITS COST PRICE IN 6 MONTHS!! And you can feel good about it.
Climate change is happening, whatever the deniers say, and for future generations we need to conserve energy. Log into www.rotaire.com NOW.

OUR CONTRIBUTION is a solution to natural, energy free drying. This is energy-free drying for the 21st century.

The Rotaire Dryline will soon pay for itself! It has also been researched that the cost of tumble drying for a family of four is £100-£150 per year.

A storage cover is available so that you can simply fold down the dryer and Dryline together and cover them for storage.

Most people think natural drying is best. The Rotaire Dryline is designed to fit existing rotary airers to provide a weather- and bird-proof cover which allows air to circulate freely through the washing. A weighted mesh skirt surrounds the durable polyethylene cover, carrying sideways rain clear of the washing while letting the air through. The whole design is carefully reinforced at the points where it contacts the airer frame and can be used year in and year out, especially if stored between uses in the Drystor storage cover. The mesh skirt is almost magical in the way it traps the drops of rain and instantly they run down to the bottom of the skirt and away from the washing. It is needed because most rain drops fall at an angle, not vertically, and so without the skirt the washing on the outside lines would get wet.

In summer, the Dryline actually accelerates the drying time so that 2 or even 3 loads can be dried outside in a day! This is because of the microclimate that builds up under the Dryline cover, like a Greenhouse the sun warns the air which can only rise up out of the central vent – and thereby draw more air up through the washing.

In winter you need to be a bit hardy to put washing out in perhaps freezing or foggy conditions, but it can be done with good results. Somme clients report that in sub-zero temperatures the washing comes off the line stiff as a board, but just a shake will send ice crystals everywhere, and hey presto! It’s dry.

EVERYONE HAS CLOTHES THAT NEED TO DRY, so why hasn’t anyone thought of this idea before? Well, actually a lot of people have tried, but until Rotaire no-one has succeeded. This is because it is not so simple to devise a canopy that is not too heavy, or complex, or expensive to make – and still works. Rotaire aimed at a classic, simple design, which is why we called it the Classic! Later we devised a variant for those airers that cannot take an extension to the centre post; this one is called the Adagio. While the external design is the same, the centre is adapted to drain downwards to the centre rather than outwards as the Classic is.

When they realised how important it is to so many people that they can dry their washing outdoors without worrying about the weather the designer set about trying different designs to make sure that the product would stand up to most weather conditions and give good value for money. The first Rotaire samples were tested by over 100 volunteer men and women early in 2007 to find any problems.

Improvements were incorporated and the improved versions are now on sale. Although it has taken over four years of painstaking development and more than a dozen prototypes to get to the current design, no risks are being taken with the product. Development is constantly happening to bring you the most perfect rotary washing line cover to protect your precious clothes against rain.