Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Information and Services in Turkey Section => Good (or Bad) Shop Guide => Topic started by: pleb on September 15, 2009, 11:06:58 AM
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does anyone know if I can buy the English style clothes airer that goes in the garden over here at all?
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I am sure I saw them at the Calis Sunday Market. Go to the very end of the market passed all the clothes to the household.
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The DIY shop next to the Citreon show rooms on the Fethiye road sells them, or did sell them.
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Have also been searching for a Rotary Clothes line, Any idea how much they are or, if in fact the DIY shop next to the Citroen Garage are still selling them. Looked around Calis market the other week and couldn't see them.
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Am going there in a while, will see if they have any and what the price is.
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The only thing they have there is not what I would call a rotary. It is a low (waist/chest height thing that opens like an umbrella, -prongs 18" long). It doesn't go into the ground, it has a stand. It is 35 lira.
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Can you buy rotary clothes lines at Ikea in Izmir? There is a B&Q called Kostas in Antalya, they may sell them, I will look next time I go there.
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I've been to both Ikea and KocTas recently and neither sell them, as far as I'm aware you can't buy them in Turkey. The ones you see have been bought over from the UK. My friend recently bought one at a house contents sale, where the owner was going back to the UK.
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i had to have mine brought over from the uk, after searching turkey, (fethiye,antalya,izmir and istanbul) with no luck, so i reckon there is a business opening there for someone!
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Pleb, we haven't seen these over here at all and brought ours over from the UK.
Much to the amusement of staff at our then local B&Q, we went to the bathroom section & borrowed a pair of scales and then proceeded to get on & off with various rotary clothes lines until we found the lightest one!!! ;)
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Why not try to find where they meet locally ?
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I know this may sound a bit daft, but what about showing a picture of a rotary line to and iron work shop and see if it can be copied. Afer all the design is not rocket science and although you may not be able to put it down at least the basic design should be able to be achieved. I had a washing line struts made which bolt onto my balconey which i can move to where the sun is in the winter cost me 20 tl
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Originally posted by The Crinklies
Pleb, we haven't seen these over here at all and brought ours over from the UK.
Much to the amusement of staff at our then local B&Q, we went to the bathroom section & borrowed a pair of scales and then proceeded to get on & off with various rotary clothes lines until we found the lightest one!!! ;)
did you pack into your suitcase? Just wondering how you managed to do it..??
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You put them on a plane as oversize baggage.If it's over your baggage allowance you will pay excess baggage but if it's within your baggage allowance then it's free to transport here. Customs at Dalaman didn't even look at it.
We did it and ours weighed 5kg.
Fi
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Originally posted by Firo
You put them on a plane as oversize baggage.If it's over your baggage allowance you will pay excess baggage but if it's within your baggage allowance then it's free to transport here. Customs at Dalaman didn't even look at it.
We did it and ours weighed 5kg.
Fi
many thanks for this info..please keep me in mind if anyone going back to UK and wanting to sell theirs !
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Never seen the things up here but have a tumble dryer so no need for one. I guess putting up a rotary line in the garden would be like sticking a union jack on your place as it seems nobody else has them.
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Pleb just run a washing line from your balcony to your fence like the dingles next door to you
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Does anyone know whether Rotary Clothes Lines are now sold in Fethiye as this thread is 4 years old? Thanks
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The Garden Centre in Ovacik got a rotary drier for our neighbour. However, the neighbour got a shock when they went to collect it as they where charged £70.00 for it... :o
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Thanks, will keep looking ;)
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We bought our last one from Saffet in Ovacik garden centre and it was no where near £70......it was more expensive than the UK but was a reasonable price..3 arms -30mts around 70tl...
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Oh dear think he saw our neighbours coming!!!
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I too am looking for a rotary clothes line so if anyone knows if they sell them in the Fethiye area, the airline is looking for £12 per kilo extra luggage!
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Got one this time in the Garden Centre in Ovacik. They are actually made by Tesco. 75 Lira. However, you will need to cement it into the garden so also buy some cement and sand.
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I would be looking for a four arm dryer is this what you got, not as much space on the 3 arms for lots of sheets I will look them up thanks
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Yes, mine is 3 arm, however, I put King Size Sheets and pillow cases on it no bother and they dried in less than 1 hour. It's different in the U.K. when things take so long to dry, but in Turkey a huge rotary dryer would IMO not really be necessary and as they seem to be hard to find, I just plumped for the one we could buy....As Bette Davis once said, Why ask for the Moon when we Have the Stars?.. ;D
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That's one of the things I really miss about living n Turkey, putting out a whole line of sheets and towels and they were all dry before the next load was ready to go out.....
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just brought one over from the uk was prepared to pay for it (excess baggage)but when i got to check in the girl weighed it 3.6kg made a phone call asked if i was bringing it back which i said no so she said they would put it through free of charge also asked if i wanted to put my small case in the hold free as well must, have been my lucky day well done to jet2.com
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Just out of interest. Did you know you could get one for 70-75 Lira (£23.00 ) in the area? or have you just read this thread?
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Evim garden centre at ovacik has a facebook link to his shop. You will be able to see the prices of his stock on there.
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This is the airer from the garden centre, not big but saves all the haste of shipping and adequate for what we wanted!