It is just perfect for daily use around the house and very similar to the Budget pick but not quite as good as the top pick in my mind. IF you’re a bigger family with heavier loads then I’d have to say this won’t necessarily be your top pick. For a start you’ve got 24m of line and the weight rating means I’d have no qualms loading this up with heavy washing fully. In our tests, we were able to zig zag it across a small garden using some screw-in eyelets and it made great use of the space. Garden Mile Retractable Automatic Clothes Washing Line is remarkably similar in design to my top pick Vileda but only offers a total of 12 Metres in length.

Established in the UK in 1941, Minky Homecare are world leaders in laundry, hardware and textile production.I drilled directly into the brick face as that’s the toughest part of the wall and I wound the hook into a nearby tree trunk. Daniel conducted a meta-analysis of hundreds of online reviews for dozens of popular retractable washing lines and then selected the top two for testing.

This is because the line is doubled up but be warned – there is not much space between the lines and whilst yes, you will dry more clothes more quickly, the drying conditions are far from ideal like my top pick the Vileda.A nice feature of the Better heavy duty washing line is that you don’t have to use all five lines at once if you don’t want to. The installation is just like the Vileda and is directly in competition on that front, it would seem one has copied the other, don’t ask me who but it’s a generic design for a wall plate so no surprises the odd feature similarity is going to crop up. Retractable clothes line with a galvanised pivot How much weight can a retractable washing line carry?