Thread Number: 65828
/ Tag: Modern Dryers
Mixing loads for drying: Yes or no? |
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Post# 883652 , Reply# 1   6/6/2016 at 07:06 (2,851 days old) by liamy1 (-)   |   | |
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Really does depend, if I am certain that there will be no colour run and the occasion arises where I can do a mix load, then I will. However, sometimes no, for example white tshirt and dark blue jeans - never. |
Post# 883653 , Reply# 2   6/6/2016 at 07:10 (2,851 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Do not machine dry jeans, shirts, blouses, etc.. They are lined dried and or left for ironing.
Where possible try to keep up on laundry so to have a full cottons load and whatever is in , goes. Long as they are white/colorfast and can withstand 40c to 60c (or even 95c) they all are done together. Since am using either Persil or a good dose of oxygen bleach that's me for you. Dress shirts, blouses, table and bed linens are done in separate loads as they are processed differently. Drying wise find both the WP compact and AEG Lavamat are fine with such "mixed" loads. May have to open the door of either towards the end of drying time to take out what is done, but again that is small beer. When haven't been on top of laundry and there is > 4kg of each, things are separated. Bath towels, wash mitts and white socks in one load, everything else white in an other. Beauty of this is with the Miele can save some energy by starting with hot tap water and boosting to 40c, 50c or even 95c without causing problems. Unlike the AEG the Miele has "cycle guarantee" which means the wash time is constant regardless of how fast the machine reaches temp. On the AEG (cold fill)if incoming water is warmer than programmed and thus machine reaches temperature sooner than it should, it minuses out that time from the wash cycle |
Post# 883690 , Reply# 3   6/6/2016 at 14:26 (2,851 days old) by mrboilwash (Munich,Germany)   |   | |
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Considering the blueish hue on my dryer`s plastic screen left from blue jeans I would say color transfer in the dryer is quite a possible occurrence.
I usually don`t mix different wash loads in the dryer, but I have to admit I`m not that fussy about mixing colors and whites in the wash right before it goes in the dryer. The thing is I own only very few whites and most of my colored things have been colorfast after a few washings. So when I have only one or two (older) white items I just toss them into a colored wash load. |
Post# 883692 , Reply# 4   6/6/2016 at 14:44 (2,851 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA )   |   | |
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Post# 883703 , Reply# 5   6/6/2016 at 16:25 (2,851 days old) by Iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas)   |   | |
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Post# 883714 , Reply# 6   6/6/2016 at 17:25 (2,851 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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Post# 883724 , Reply# 7   6/6/2016 at 18:58 (2,851 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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that newer, or lower quality garments bleed or transfer color. Also make more lint along with newer towels. |
Post# 883731 , Reply# 9   6/6/2016 at 19:56 (2,851 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 883732 , Reply# 10   6/6/2016 at 19:57 (2,851 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 883738 , Reply# 11   6/6/2016 at 23:51 (2,851 days old) by ilovewindex (Tualitan OR)   |   | |
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Post# 883881 , Reply# 12   6/8/2016 at 00:14 (2,850 days old) by Murando531 (Augusta, Georgia - US)   |   | |
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Typically, because my washer handles so much, whatever is a load in the wash is a full to the brim load in the dryer for this 7.6cuft Kenpool machine. I've actually begun splitting up loads of towels because a full wash load will end up being fluffed to the tip top of the dryer drum once dry, which makes for longer dry times and more lint transfer/less lint removal. Usually the nice towels dry separately because they lint very little, followed by the rest which are gym towels, dish cloths and towels, etc. because they lint more, and the extra tumbling room helps to alleviate that problem.
For the most part, I hold off until I have a full wash basket for each grouping of laundry; up to the top row of holes or the bottom of the basket ring loosely piled, so normally I never have reason to mix in the dryer, but now and then I'll wash what I have of the darks, then of the light colors, and that will be one load in the dryer mixed since there's not a risk of color transfer or lint givers and takers. I could not, however, bring myself to put jeans and towels or a similar combination in the dryer together. My OCD couldn't take it, ha! My dad used to cram towels, darks, whites, jeans, you name it, all in the same load to wash and dry, so of course black socks and pants would have white lint, whites would have black lint, and there would usually be something that bled enough to turn a few white socks or underwear a slight tinge of pink. How I survived in that household, I do not know. That's why by age 13-14 I was the "mother" of the house, being the primary caretaker of the home doing all laundry, dishes, cleaning, yard work, and plenty more, and forbidding my parents from touching any of it if they weren't going to at least do it right. Back in those days, it was either live in a filthy home and have clothes that smelled of mildew, or take it all in my own hands. |
Post# 884048 , Reply# 13   6/8/2016 at 21:25 (2,849 days old) by lakewebsterkid (Dayton, Ohio)   |   | |
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Andrew, Im glad im not the only one! After my parents' divorce I stepped up to do all the laundry. I have probably been doing all the laundry for 12 years. Now, I just need my brother to start stepping in.. |
Post# 885291 , Reply# 15   6/15/2016 at 09:28 (2,842 days old) by AquaCycle (West Yorkshire, UK)   |   | |
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I never tumble dry jeans, t-shirts or jumpers. The only thing that goes in our dryer are work shirts & trousers, pj's, underwear bedsheets and towels.
I prefer to line dry where possible, but when the weather is wet outside, I usually get 1 mixed drying load out of 3 clothes washes - the rest goes on the airer. The only thing that I always put in the dryer are towels. I don't use fabric softener on towels and if I line dry them, they go like cardboard. |