Hi Everyone, is anyone living full time on the road and freecamping. We have been freecamping and while small things is ok but what does everyone do when it is sheets? Is it acceptable to put up a line or hang under the awning or not? any ideas would be welcome.
A line under the awning is quite acceptable. Some string it out between the trees.
I'm guessing the actual laundering process isn't the problem.
Doing the washing when you're on the road full time can be a hassle, but most roadhouses have washing machines and dryers for truck drivers. Or you could slip into a caravan park once in a while to do the big stuff, and just do the day to day little stuff in the bucket or whatever.
When I'm working on the road, I wash my underwear in the shower. It's a legacy of boarding school and working on prawn boats a long time ago.
I wring out in my towel and hang in the Sprinter bathroom to dry.
I do the big stuff at roadhouses or wait until I get home, depending on how long I've been away.
Safe and happy travels.
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I have a line under the awning permanently between the two uprights. I also have a small pull out bar that affixes to the trailer and I also have a line that pulls out of a drum and I carry two tent poles . One for the end point to remove the need of a tree and the pother for in the middle to allow for slack and keep the sheets etc from the dirt.
Normally the first two do all I need.
Regards
Brian
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I have no objection to people hanging washing under awnings or between trees but personally I think it's unsightly to have washing hanging between trees or where ever on a camp ground. But I realize washing has to be done at some time. I usually go into a Caravan Park one day a week. It's a good opportunity to wash, fill water tanks, use dump point, charge batteries. I usually check in early in the morning to give myself the full day to do all the things I want to do.
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We have a retractable 4 line set up which can go under the awning or we attach one end to the van side wall and 2 poles to hold the line up at the other end. Equates to approx 15 metres of line. Plus a small 5 x 1 m plastic pull unit off the van.
Also, when travelling or when sleeping, a couple of lines inside length of van mainly in winter if clothes have not dried in time. But only on rare occasions.
Mind you, we like to restrict a very large wash to a less conspicuous camp site, using the gennie to power the W.M.
Jay&Dee
Hello all, my wife and I purchased a small twin tub washing machine, we do the washing in rest areas and dispose of the water around trees and shrubs.
Normally the washing is hung out under the awning or on a drying rack that can be fitted to the side of the van.
We have on numerous occasions hung the washing on lines inside the motor home, drying as we move on.
Our WM weighs only 22kg and lives where the bed was above the cab, just make sure to dispose of the water in a correct manner and we only use
wool wash to eliminate rinsing. intouch, just Pass'n Thru.
When we are camped out it is usually beside a stream somewhere, it is then that we do the washing hanging most things on one of those foldup clothes lines.
As for the big stuff we use a length of line between trees or a tree and the van. We use bio-degradable soaps and washing powder so our grey water is used to water a the nearby trees.
When doing this chore I also fire up the genny and charge everything whilst we do the washing.
I should add that most of these camps are well out of the way and very rarely do we have close neighbours.
Hi dodger, I forgot about the fold up cloths line, we have one of those gadgets as well, have to make sure it is firmly pegged to the ground though. It is amazing what we actually carry in a motor home or caravan. The fold up clothes line sleeps under the bed, so is rarely seen. intouch, just Pass'n Thru.
Hi dodger, I forgot about the fold up cloths line, we have one of those gadgets as well, have to make sure it is firmly pegged to the ground though. It is amazing what we actually carry in a motor home or caravan. The fold up clothes line sleeps under the bed, so is rarely seen. intouch, just Pass'n Thru.
Our 3kg front load washing machine copes with most, when we use jennie, even sheets and towels. Only use when we have plenty or access to water. Smalls can be washed by hand in bucket or in shower. Have put smalls in bucket with sealable lid and driven to next destination. Clean Smalls! Have a fold up mini "hills hoist" for drying most of our smalls etc. Sheets hung from annex. We have ensuite bathroom, so have fitted a towel rail above toilet, and another in the shower room. In wet weather, have successfully dried most things in these room.
However, here is one of my favourite Grey Nomad photos...... apologies if this is your washing (taken 19/8/2011 Long Water Hole, Winton. Qld
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