Always read your care labels. Cotton clothing, as well as some blends, react better to certain temperatures or drying times. You can greatly reduce fabric damage that leads to wrinkling through correct care. Do not leave in the dryer too long. Take out when still slightly damp, the heat in the dryer ages fabrics. For…
The longer they sit around in the drum of your machine, the more likely they will be to have wrinkles. Listening for the buzzer not only keeps the laundry process moving, but will prevent you further headaches after you fold.
My concerns are the chemicals and perfumes, which they soak into our clothes (and then into our skin). Take into account the way our skin works, what touches our skin can end up inside our blood stream (like nicotine/birth control patches). Having head to toe fabric softener patches would not be such a good idea.…
Some people still have the out-dated white plastic kind, which is not up to code. The white plastic ducting is flammable. It should be shiny foil or best, solid metal ducting in case of a dryer fire. You can also wrap the duct in insulation to improve efficiency (especially if the duct is more than…
Cleaning the lint trap on your dryer is not enough. It takes more time to wait for clothes to dry in a machine with clogged vents than it does to check your vents and appliance to see if it is clogged or partially obstructed. Make note of the amount of lint in your dryer, remove…
Use as little of it as you can get away with! This depends on the hardness of your water and the soil in your clothing. If you live in Vancouver (some of the softest in the world) the soft water requires quite a bit less detergent than hard water yet the more soiled the clothes,…
Especially for bras with underwires and anything else that has little metal/plastic pieces that may come loose in there.
A number of people break the machine with a bath mat or large blanket etc. If in doubt, take it out (to a Laundromat).
Imagine the difference in weight between a large absorbent cotton bath towel soaked with water and a less absorbent polyester pillowcase. Make sure the clothing is balanced left/right and front/back. Think of the tub as a big deep pie. Put items into “pie-slice” slots. Load them dry (if wet resist the urge to fill the…
Never wrap clothing around the agitator in the centre of the washer (unless otherwise directed by manufacturer in use care guide). When the agitator moves back and forth in the wash cycle it can chafe on clothes and make more lint. Where does the lint from your washer go? Clothing damage can be seen in…