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Originally Posted by Meredith lady
"...For the past month I have made do with a clothesline (much to the dismay of my college kids) but winter is coming..."
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1) In winter, the drying outdoors of clothing is fine: the clothes will freeze, but still be drying. (It isn't only our Grandparents who know this). Plus, the bed linens—in particular—will have that nice smell of the outdoors).
I have a "solar dryer" for that reason.
2) Just yesterday, I repaired my folk's telephone connections in their basement.
Why?
(They called with no dial-tone
on one phone).
Their clothes-dryer vents into the basement, and all five telephone wires had condensed the heated dryer-moisture
inside the cooler insulation of the phone wires. That moisture ran down and corroded the connections at the junction box. Where the connections should have been coppery-bright, they had turned a greenish-black!
"Solar dryers" prevent obscure, unanticipated problems like that one from costing even more money.