Dryers with the automatic sensors annoy me

I also hate my washing machine sensor. It doesn’t fill high enough half the time.

Right outta the box it was fucked.

Use the timer for drying. If you don't have a timer option buy a better dryer.

If you received a washer that was not working, why didn't you do something about it then?

Christ. You need a launderer or a boyfriend who knows something about something.

R2, you seem so forceful. What are you packing? Top? H/W proportionate?

Op fuck around and find out.

If you hung your clothes out on a washline to dry like I do, OP, you wouldn't have this problem.

R2 gave it to us hard and raw, but him aim was true. The old school timer is the only safe option in our modern hellscape of corporatism and consumerism.

I'd hate it if it weren't that I can change the setting when I start the dryer from "dry" to "extra dry," which latter really does completely dry the laundry (it's just a matter of the machine continuing to be on another five minutes). Probably the inadequate plain "dry" setting was so that the makers could boast as a sales point that their machine used less energy in its regular dry cycle . . . never revealing that to really dry things you'd never use the plain "dry" setting.

Uh oh! Dryer shits fired!

i fluff cotton clothes for 10 minutes in the dryer then they go on the line or hangers. Including towels. If im having guests I might make the effort to dry towels down to completely fluffed. My towels last forever. Don't over use detergent and give everything 2 strong rinses and spins. Never let fabric softener touch your clothes.

Never hang the towels on the line unless you want crunchy, hard towels. If that's your choice, everything else can go on the line, but most HOAs do not allow clotheslines.

I always use the deep fill setting on the washing machine.

For the dryer, I generally only do the timed drying option and set everything for one hour.

For electric dryers most of the energy is used to heat the air to temp. Run a longer cycle on the lowest heat setting to save energy. Better for the environment and your clothes!

A reason to love this site. The first four threads I see are this one, the surprised they were gay thread, the call for Obama to be prosecuted thread and the Christopher Atkins one. Where else would you find this? Anyway, as you were.

I line dried my towels this morning. They were dry by 1 PM. It's 93° here. Easy peasy.

Rich people problems. My building’s laundry room frequently features clean gravel in the front loading washers. A constant prayer is that no one experimented with fabric softener.

Washers and dryers made in the 21st century suck

low water washers are a catastrophe. I could manage one if it were my own but would prefer more water. the problem is a buildings public laundry room and low water waters DO NOT MIX. because dumb ass trash stuff washers to the max, and pour gobs of soap and fabric softener into the wash. people are Absolutely without any common sense and nobody has ever taught them how to do any household task with any critical attention.

My pussy stinks.

Girl the key is not to use dryer sheets! They not only coat you clothes with a waxy substance but also the interior of the drum of the dryer including the moisture sensors. Mine are up front right beneath the lint filter on the inside of the drum I just put it off with some alcohol and paper towel. I make sure that my lint filter is kept clean, I blow my dryer exhaust hose out with a leaf blower monthly and everything dries to perfection on the automatic cycle.

If a manufacturer would come out with a new washer featuring 1958 technology and build quality, it would sell like crazy.

The 1958 Westinghouse "Shape of Tomorrow" washers and dryers.

I use my dryer as a back up since I line dry year around.

I'm pretty good at judging whether or not my laundry will dry on a given day but sometimes I get caught.

I tried the sensor dry twice on towels. The first time I doubted myself on the setting, and by the time i got the towels out of the dryer, they smelled mildewy. So the second try, I was sure I set it correctly. But when the cycle was done, they were still damp. Now it’s timer, one hour, on high.

[quote] If a manufacturer would come out with a new washer featuring 1958 technology and build quality, it would sell like crazy.

And last too long. Planned obsolescence. Make it too good and people don't have to replace it.

[quote]I blow my dryer exhaust hose

I prefer human penises, but you do you, gurl.

How many of us are old enough to remember those old ringer washing machines?

In the 1960s we had the typical Maytag box style washer and dryer that still exists but only barely. Up at Gran's summer cottage by the lake she had a ringer on the porch and a nearby clothesline. Ringers were kind of scary and there was always a cautionary story about some young housewife getting her whole arm stuck.

My grandmother had one too, but my grandparents got a more modern washer without a ringer in the early ‘60s.

[quote]ringer washing machines

Um, I guess you don't remember them that well, because it's spelled "wringer" -- like wringing your hands or wringing out a washcloth.

Ding ding!

r26 "Ringer" should be "wringer."

Wring my bell ...

I add a pail of water to my washing machine every time.