Honey-Can-Do Retractable Clothesline DRY-01113 White

It’s a lot sturdier than I thought it would be. I’ve hung everything from sock to blankets on it with no slack. Love how small and functional it is

This probably isn’t a good thing for such a long distance.

I love this contraption. It lets me hang dry my clothes and easily take down to where it’s hardly noticeable.

I hang almost all my clothes, so having a long clothesline was important to me, but there's nowhere in my house where that amount of rope won't be an inconvenience, so I attached this to one wall of my basement and either run it across both the storage room and the laundry room, or loop it back and forth between shelves in the storage room. I use an S hook (old shower curtain hook) to attach it to whatever I can, or loop it around a pole and attach it to itself.There are two major flaws to this design.1) The cleat you wrap the line around to keep it from pulling out is too small. If I loop it once then it's loose enough to pull more line out, making my clothes sag to the floor. If I loop it around twice the second loop usually falls off because the cleat is too small to properly hold it. The line is thick enough that it can't get near the base of the cleat, the gap between them is too small for it to fir properly. It's really cheap molded plastic so chances are it'll probably break off soon enough and I can attach a higher quality one.2) The line itself almost feels stretchy. I'll pull it tight and hold it in place, and once I throw clothes over the line it'll sag, even without any extra slack. I can't verify whether it's actually stretching on not, but no matter how tight I try to make it there always is extra give.Overall, it's a good enough product for now. It's definitely worth the price since nothing on mine has snapped quite yet (it's been about 3 months) but no part of it (except the plate that screws onto the wall) feels sturdy, so I'm wondering how much longer it'll last. If something breaks on the inside I have no idea whether it can be considered fixable with a different line.

The thin rubbery cord they use in this retractable laundry line is so bendy and stretchy and giving that it makes is essentially useless as a functioning laundry line.We put ours up in the same place the old one had been for ten years, put four wet shirts on hangers on it, and it drooped right down to the ground, dipping our clean laundry on the soil of the garden. So we stretched it as TAUT and TIGHT as we could, to the point where we could barely even latch it onto the far connecting hook, and a little bit of wet laundry still made it just bend down to the ground. We might as well have been using a long thin rubber band. The couple shirts we got onto the line, which were on metal hangers to dry, all slid down together into the bottom of the V where the bendy laundry line dipped down, smooshing them all together into one big solid tight wet mass where no air could flow between the shirts letting them dry - while the entire rest of the laundry line was bare -- pretty much the exact precise opposite of what a laundry line is supposed to do.Worse, we spent time drilling holes in the side of the garage wall to put it up and now it's another project to take it down, spackle and fill all the holes, and re-paint the wall there where we tried to use this utterly useless product. And the last thing I need on an already busy weekend is another home repair project, and one that I paid for.Just disgusted with this product. Infuriating is really the word that comes to mind.

Quick and easy to install. Retracts well. Catch mechanism (looping string around bottom tab) works fairly well, but with some loss of tension. I like the fact that the unit swivels on its mount, providing other options to attach the extended end to various endpoints. Can't speak to durability yet, because I've only used it a couple of times. Seems to be a good value for the price.

I’m using most of the length. Over such a long run a centre support is desirable.

Easy to install, basic tools needed.quality is great, Retractable after use, so that not in the middle of the way.