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Hills EIC and IC special offer!

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

This December, be sure to check out www.breezedryer.com for special savings on our most popular drying racks:

Free Shipping!!

We are excited to offer the Expanding Indoor Clothesline (EIC) with free shipping this month.  The EIC can save money, energy and space this winter and beyond.  It is the perfect fit for whatever your living space, be it apartment, home, condo, dorm room.  Easy to collapse and store and move if need be.

The Hills Indoor Clothesline is also being offered with free shipping this month.  It is the “sister” of the EIC, basically the same rack without the wings.  Folds flat, easy to store and ready to hold the laundry you need to hang.  Heavy or light, wet jeans or sweaters, it can handle it.

Keep in mind that you can maximize your drying space by hanging your laundry with Hills Pegs ( Australian for clothespins).

Take advantage by calling us at 1-877-794-0379 or visit www.breezedryer.com.fe110036

Tags: Expanding Indoor Clothesline, Indoor Clothesline
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How strong is it?!

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

We’ve had some feedback recently from customers who just cannot believe that our drying racks can hold as much as they can.  Comments that range from “there is no way that 3-Tier can hold a pair of wet jeans” to questions about the strength of the Expanding Indoor Clothesline’s (EIC) ability to stand up to a load of wash, including sweaters.  We are hear to finally set the record straight and let you know a few important things about Hills’ Drying Racks and why they stand out from the competition:

  • They are one-piece construction – there are no joints to fail.
  • They are meant for indoor drying, but of course can be used outside in good weather…this is not to say that a decent wind would not take them for a ride and blow them over.  Regular outdoor drying can be accomplished with one of the four other types of clotheslines we offer (Rotary, Folding Frame, Retractable, Portable).
  • They can definitely stand up to weight…our family of six, including a 6′5″ male and all of his XL size clothes, has the ability to hang wash confidently on these racks.  We’ve hung everything from wet jeans, to sweaters, to a load of bath towels, including a small rug on one of the wings of the EIC.

We’ve had many people come to us excited to see the EIC because they have used the same type of rack in Europe and didn’t think they could get something like it here.  We recently had a customer who ordered the Hills EIC contact us to say that these racks are similar, but the Hills is a superior product.  It is built much sturdier and the wires for hanging are steel wire, not plastic lines like the other across the Atlantic.  There are products available that look similar to the Hills product, but they can’t match it.  The quality and durability is in line with everything else Hills does in the manufacture of their items.  We are proud to carry them and bring them to the US for you.

The image below is of a load of wash on our EIC, with Gary’s wet jeans hanging on one wing.  Not a problem.  The room with our wood stove is perfect for drying the laundry during cold months…clothes dry quickly and much needed moisture is added to the air in the house.  Living in the Northeast makes line drying an inside job most days during the winter months.

Hanging out by the woodburner.

Hanging out by the woodburner.

We invite you to put the products to the test.  They are not your typical drying rack available in big box stores.  They are not made so that they will break in a year or two and you’d have to buy a new one…they are made so that you can rely on them for years of drying.  And we are here to help with your decision or if anything comes up after your purchase.

Be sure to sign up at www.breezedryer.com for our newsletter, which will be the place to find out about any savings we may be offering.  And don’t forget to “friend” us on Facebook, and let us know what you love about your Hills product!  Thanks for reading!

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Balancing Act

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

This may seem like a no-brainer, but it’s important to mention nonetheless.  I’m sure most of our readers are aware of the fact that balance plays an important role in wash hanging.  If you string a single line across your yard, you wouldn’t necessarily hang the heaviest items in the middle, where the sag would overwhelm the line, although  the good old clothes “prop” poles do the trick.  The same “balancing act” goes for any clothesline that you may use.

There are unique features to the Hills Clotheslines that others just don’t offer.  We at Breeze Dryer are proud to claim them.  One good example is the spinning of the rotary in the breeze; it is not only lovely and calming to watch (can you tell how much I enjoy this?), but helps the clothes dry quicker.  (more…)

Tags: 3-Tier, Drying Racks, EIC, Hills, Hills Australia, Hills Rotary Clothesline, Rotary, Rotary 6, rotary 7, rotary 8
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Want to hear something REALLY SCARY??

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

With Halloween right around the corner, it seems like an appropriate time to mention scary things…as adults we’re scared of different things than the typical vampire or werewolf.  Visiting the Mother Earth News fair recently, I stopped by their bookstore.  This was not scary.  It was my first time at the show, though Gary had visited last year and raved about it.  I was equally impressed, and the bookstore was incredible.  Being the mother of four that I am I decided to check out some of the children’s books, and came upon a title called Catch the Wind Harness the Sun by Michael J. Caduto.  This was a book of cool science projects for kids, and I was looking through it as I turned to page 100…the activity was DRYING CLOTHES ON-LINE.  Amazing that kids have to think of this as a science project, but I was intrigued by the idea of getting children interested in this way, even if their parents don’t regularly line dry.  Not scary yet, right?  Sort of sad that something so simple is not more commonly practiced, but not really scary.

Now for the scary part.  Reading further into the “project”, Mr. Caduto gives children the numbers to assist in the calculation of how much energy a family could save by drying clothes on a line.  Encouraging children to think about what this all really means, Mr. Caduto states that “every year it takes 29 coal-fired power plants to power just the clothes dryers in the United States.”!!! (The exclamation points are mine.)  “An average coal plant in the United States emits more than 3.5 million tons (3.2 million metric tons) of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year.”  If those last few sentences don’t SCARE you, they should.  They haunted me, literally, since I ready them a month ago.

Clotheslines may be low-tech, they don’t need to be plugged in, but their use makes sense and it is an easy way to save money, energy, and obviously carbon emissions.  Hills makes either an outdoor line (Rotary Clothesline, Folding Frame, Extenda, Portable) or indoor line (Folding Frame, Extenda, Portable, Drying Racks) depending on where you live or what your home type is…apartment, condo, home with large or small backyard.  Do we really want to help power 29 power plants across the US??  To me, that is a scary thought.  I’ll do what I can to make a difference…for my children, for the planet, because this is something I can do easily.

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What’s in a name?

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

There have been a lot of changes showing up on our website, www.breezedryer.com, lately.  Things look a bit different when you click on the Rotary Clotheslines link on the left side of the page… there are so many new products with different names!  It is not as confusing as it may first appear.  Hills has been working, as always, to make things easier for the customer.  Now the rotaries have more intuitive names, like the Rotary 6, Rotary 7 and Rotary 8, each telling you how many lines per side that particular rotary has.  The Rotary 6 now replaces the Rotary 400 (with 6 lines/side), the Rotary 7 replaces the Rotary 450 and the Rotary 8 replaces the Rotary 500.

Rest assured that any parts you may need for your Hills clothesline will still be available to you, whether you have a 10 year old clothesline or a 3 year old clothesline.   You may not have noticed the pictures on the website of the rigors these products go through before they are sold.  The clotheslines are tested in numerous ways to ensure they stand up to Hills quality standards.

It keeps going and going...Weight (126lbs/57kg!) on the inner lines of a rotary during quality testing.

As always, if you have questions, we are here to help.  Call us (877-794-0379/215-794-0379) or e-mail us at info@breezedryer.com and we’ll be happy to assist with any questions you may have.

Enjoy this weather!  So perfect for line-drying…give your dryer a vacation and let mother nature’s warm breezes dry your clothes.

Tags: Hills, Hills Rotary Clothesline, Rotary, rotary 450, Rotary 500, Rotary 6, rotary 7, rotary 8
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Line-drying in the winter?

Monday, January 31st, 2011

The weather here in the Northeast has been a bit unpredictable this winter, and what a winter it has been…we’re not even halfway through!  If  you live where the seasons change, you’re interested in line-drying and want to do it throughout the year, Hills makes a clothesline for you.

For us and our family, the rotary is our outdoor clothesline of choice.  We love to watch the clothes spin in the breeze, it’s so relaxing.  We can get so many loads hung and drying at once that it’s a big time-saver.  But that scenario is still months away, so the clothes have their place drying inside.  Indoors, we use a Portable 170 and drying racks spread around the house to lend much-needed moisture and dry not only laundry but all of those pants, gloves and hats that the kids get covered with snow.

Even if you are a die-hard dryer user, there are probably a few items that you just can’t or won’t put in the dryer…delicates or other special fabric…so where best to hang them?  The Expanding Indoor Clothesline and the 3-Tier Mobile Airer are two options that are quick to set up and take down.  These can be used anywhere in a home, an apartment, at a beach house, etc, where temporary space is needed to dry.

3-Tier full of towels

3-Tier fully loaded!

We have had customers ask “Is the 3-Tier strong enough to hold a sweatshirt?  It can’t be.”  For those familiar with drying products sold at big-box retailers, Hills quality is not something they are used to (more on the quality testing of Hills Clotheslines in future blog postings).  This past summer, we filled up the top rack of the 3-Tier with wet beach towels and suits.  Not a problem.

We use the EIC (Expanding Indoor Clothesline) to dry our heavy sweaters plus other clothes. With pegs or not, the possibilities are endless.

So, until the sun shines warmly again here in PA, we wish you happy line-drying inside, for now.

Tags: 3-Tier, Drying Racks, EIC, indoor drying, Portable Clotheslines
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Breeze Dryer at the 2010 Designer House

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Breeze Dryer has been fortunate enough to be invited to participate in the
2010 Designer House at Fieldstone Farm, 1515 Sugar Bottom Rd. in Furlong, PA.  This is a wonderful, annual event that is sponsored by the Village Improvement Association of Doylestown and benefits Doylestown Hospital.   Numerous talented designers and landscapers tackle a particular space of a property in desperate need of TLC, and give it the royal treatment in their own unique style.  This year had a green theme and we were ecstatic that line-drying was given the opportunity to have a presence at this event!

Working with an overgrown, sloping piece of ground, our “Lines on the Hill” has undergone a complete transformation thanks to Jim Engler of Engler Landscape & Garden Design.  (more…)

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Winds of Change…

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Welcome to our first blog on the Breeze Dryer website!  If you are visiting, you are probably curious about  line-drying, and wondering “do people really do that anymore?”    We would answer with a resounding “yes!” and hope that the Hills products we offer make you take a second look at line-drying…

The Hills Hoist was the start of this entire endeavor.  It is a product that was so unique, so high quality, and actually complemented the yard;  we wanted to make it available to others who were looking for line-drying options.  (more…)

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