Household Essentials R-400 40-Foot Single-Line Indoor/Outdoor Retractable Clothes Dryer

by Household Essentials

Product Features

• Single-line clothes dryer provides up to 40 feet of linear drying space
• High-impact plastic housing; stainless-steel spring; line retracts when not in use
• For indoor or outdoor use; quick-lock cleat keeps the line taught at any length
• Wall-mounting bracket and eye hook included for easy installation
• Measures 3-1/2 by 1-1/2 by 3-1/2 inches

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.5 x 1.5 x 3.5 inches ; 1.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AP3YK8
• Item model number: R-400
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #80,141 in Home & Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen)
  • #88 in Home & Kitchen > Storage & Organization > Laundry Storage & Organization > Drying Racks

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The benefits of air drying clothes are many--fabrics last longer, energy bills run lower, and clothes and sheets naturally smell better when hung outside--not to mention the health benefits of spending a few minutes outdoors in the sunshine. Designed for use either indoors or outdoors, this single-line clothes dryer provides up to 40 feet of linear drying space, and its quick-lock cleat keeps the line taught at any length from 0 to 40 feet. The unit features high-impact plastic housing and a stainless-steel spring, and the clothesline can be easily retracted for neat and tangle-free storage when not in use. A wall-mounting bracket and eye hook are included for easy installation. Great for in a laundry room, on a front porch, or in the backyard, the retractable clothes dryer measures 3-1/2 by 1-1/2 by 3-1/2 inches.

Product Description

The benefits of air drying clothes are many--fabrics last longer, energy bills run lower, and clothes and sheets naturally smell better when hung outside--not to mention the health benefits of spending a few minutes outdoors in the sunshine. Designed for use either indoors or outdoors, this single-line clothes dryer provides up to 40 feet of linear drying space, and its quick-lock cleat keeps the line taught at any length from 0 to 40 feet. The unit features high-impact plastic housing and a stainless-steel spring, and the clothesline can be easily retracted for neat and tangle-free storage when not in use. A wall-mounting bracket and eye hook are included for easy installation. Great for in a laundry room, on a front porch, or in the backyard, the retractable clothes dryer measures 3-1/2 by 1-1/2 by 3-1/2 inches.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good design, took a minute to figure out, September 17, 2007

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amazon3131 "amazon3131" (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Household Essentials R-400 40-Foot Single-Line Indoor/Outdoor Retractable Clothes Dryer (Kitchen)

I've had this retractable clothesline for about a year or so. It's not hard to install: you screw it into a handy wall or fence post. Make sure that it's tightly fixed into something sturdy. Then you need to install a hook for the other end of the line, which can be any sort of sturdy cup hook. The flimsy decorative one that I started with (it was already installed and had been used to corral a line of Christmas lights) did not work.

When you want to hang something outside, you pull the plastic D-ring out of the spool, walk it over to your hook, and then go back to the spool and loop a little extra cord around a saucer-shaped stopper on the bottom. That loop (which I prefer to pull very tight) holds the cord in place. If you don't do that, then the first thing you put on the line will make more cord come out of the spool until everything's on the ground. When you're done, just unwind the loop and unhook the end. The line will automatically retract.

This device is useful for any length of space up to about 40 feet. I'm currently using mine in a sort of zig-zag pattern so that the line makes three trips across a space that's about thirteen feet long (using a total of three hooks). The advantage to this is that I can use a relatively long and narrow bit of my deck to hang up the laundry and still get quite a bit of line space, since it uses all of the available line. Forty feet will hang a total of twenty T-shirts or pairs of jeans.

The only thing that I dislike about this is the material that the actual line is made from. After enough use, it tends to stretch a bit, and it's really hard to keep it from sagging. I think that my next clothesline will use proper vinyl-coated, wire-reinforced clothesline, just like Mama had.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money, July 19, 2006

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Mouse (West Virgina) - See all my reviews

I don't like giving bad reviews but in this case it's justifyed. I have owned 2 of these, thinking that the failure of the first may have been a fluke I bought a second one. Both units were very flawed, the lock that holds the line will suddenely unlocks and lets all of the extra line loose, sending the clothes crashing to the floor. It's not a matter of overloading the lines either. I've had it to unlock with only 1 shirt. But if you unlike me, enjoy picking fresh laundry up off the floor then by all means this is the one to buy. Maybe it should be remarketed as exercise equiptment! lol

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Give this clothes line no further consideration, June 1, 2009

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Stephen A. Ferreira - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Household Essentials R-400 40-Foot Single-Line Indoor/Outdoor Retractable Clothes Dryer (Kitchen)

While the overall design is basically OK, the mounting bracket is plastic and broke after 10 months of light use rendering the entire product useless. The bracket should be made of metal to better support clothes pin to 40' of line. Don't bother with this item unless you don't mind replacing it within one year or are only planning on hanging underwear and socks on the line.