posted on October 9, 2001 03:36:25 PM new
Ok, I've been using an automatic clothes dryer for years. We bought our first set of Laundry Equipment when child number one was "on the way", and replaced it a few years ago with a new set, because 20+ loads per week does take a toll on the machines.
I've always just used the Timed Dry setting, you know, pick the Heat setting, and then how long it will take to dry the load. Over the years I can get this timed very close, and I know how long a load of whites takes, a load of towels, and so on.
So, I never paid much attention to the other choices on the dial. What the heck does More Dry or Less Dry mean? How am I supposed to know...I just want the wet clothes to become dry clothes. Does anyone know what I mean? Does anyone use that setting? How do you decide on More Dry or Less, or somewhere inbetween? Do you clothes actually come out sort of Half Dry?
posted on October 9, 2001 03:39:52 PM new
Some materials don't need the full blast of the dryer and even survive better if they are taken out and hung up to finish their drying.
posted on October 9, 2001 03:40:33 PM new
There is a sensor that senses how damp the clothes are. I messed with it one time, and found out that less dry really is less dry. Women's TShirts tend to shrink when fully dried, so I dry mine less dry, then hang them up to finish drying.
Towels and Jeans are dried on more dry since the pockets on jeans are the last thing to dry. I buy the big fluffy towels and they take longer to dry. But for most things, the middle setting (mine has a dot for normal) works fine.
Oh, and a comforter will need to be dried on more dry and then another 20 minutes on timed.
posted on October 9, 2001 03:54:07 PM new
AS I know it a dryer Has a heat up time and a cool down Tumble time.
More Dry Would give you a longer time of heated Tumble drying say for heavyer Items like blankets spreads and so on the dryer will run less in the cool down .
THe less dry for more delicate Items will give you less heating tumble dry and more cool down tumble drying Silk nylon and so on plastic bed covers and so on that might even melt if they are heated at a temp for to long also for clothes that wrinkle badly you dont want wrinkles dryed in.
It dont really mean your clothes will come out more or less wet but it don't mean they won't since some fabics dry faster then others.
so basically the dryer goes through two modes heat up and cool down, more dry give longer heat up, less dry gives longer cool down drying..
Don't ask me why all this fancy stuff I use to work at an industral laundry dump all clothes in the same type of washer put all clothes in the the same dryer same heat or same temp iron.
in fact even dry cleaning goes in to the same type washer only you add different cemicals to the water and most then go on to a strech rack to drip dry..
posted on October 9, 2001 04:17:14 PM new
I wish I had room enough in my back yard for a clothes line. The clothing smells SO good when dried that way.
posted on October 9, 2001 04:20:21 PM new
That's where mine go to--I do a 5 minute spin in the dryer to get rid of the crunchies (I only like to eat crunchies--don't like my towels to be cruchie)--and off they go into the backyard.
My favourite smell from clothes off the line--is when it is so cold that they Freeze-dry
posted on October 9, 2001 06:28:06 PM new
I decided to hang clothes on the line today and the guy leasing the farm land behind us decides to plow. Thank goodness he doesn't get real close. I only use the dryer when it's raining or when it's cold.
