We have a hills branded one, its been awesome for the small space its in. Been impressed with the build quality etc.

https://www.bunnings.co.nz/hills-23-5m-woodland-grey-long-folding-clothesline_p0389257 

We have a 10 - 12 year old Hills folding clothes line, it's on its last legs. Looking at the link from Jase the design has improved quite a bit since then. I'd probably buy another given the improvements, but I'd also look at M10, who tend to have better quality brands.

timmmay:

 

We have a 10 - 12 year old Hills folding clothes line, it's on its last legs. Looking at the link from Jase the design has improved quite a bit since then. I'd probably buy another given the improvements, but I'd also look at M10, who tend to have better quality brands.

 

like?

sorry should have been more specific in my quote

timmmay:

 

but I'd also look at M10, who tend to have better quality brands.

 

like?

timmmay: I don't know if miter 10 have better brands in this range, just generally their brands are better quality than Bunnings

lol each store generally has 3 differe tares, low, ie a store brand, sometimes a mid and a high tare.

In each tare they are pretty similar in quality between the stores.

Thanks ALL for your comments. Looks like another Hills.

Jase2985:

lol each store generally has 3 differe tares, low, ie a store brand, sometimes a mid and a high tare.

We didn't like any of the Hills options, and got ourselves one of these NZ made ones instead that was customised to blend in with the fence colour:

https://www.stainlessclotheslines.co.nz/

Newtown:

 

We didn't like any of the Hills options, and got ourselves one of these NZ made ones instead that was customised to blend in with the fence colour:

 

https://www.stainlessclotheslines.co.nz/

 

How long have you had it? How's it holding up? Might be good to replace our 10 year old Hills, which is fine but gone off them a bit as they haven't aged well.

How does it go up and down? It says on the website to go down you push a button on each side (some places it says one side, some places it says both sides), does that warp it? The hills one you push up and it locks up, then you push up again and it goes down. A 10 second video of it working on their website would be useful. 

@timmmay – I reckon you should email them so they can put a video up on the site or FB page.

Took some photos to illustrate. I think we got it in 2019, and I can see some rust around the bolts. There are two 'buttons' on each side that clicks into place when putting up the clothes line. Taking it down is a two hand operation as you need to hold the line, press one button, lower the line a bit, then press the other button. It's not an issue for us as the clothes line is up for most of the time. What I liked about this company is that I fully customised the width, depth, and colour to fit us. The only maintenance I've done so far is to tighten the bolts and clamps that hold the wire.

Thanks @Newtown . I think I will email them for a video of the up / down action. The Hills sounds easier than two buttons at different ends.

looks like the colour is coming off it too?

@timmmay 10 years is pretty good for somehting that spends its whole life outside