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Post by lg on Aug 12, 2023 15:42:00 GMT
All peas be warned, Japanese clothes dryers take FiVE HOURS PLUS… please factor this into your schedule if you’re ever travelling there! We didn’t realise this but thankfully were warned at one hotel as they’ve had numerous guests having to check out with wet clothes!!! I’m an Aussie pea with a condenser dryer that I use often due to rainbow lorikeets pooping on my washing as they sit on the line every afternoon and as the laundry door is warped shut 😒 Takes 2.5 hours for a mostly dry load if I don’t overfill it, but at least the walls aren’t wet with condensation like with my old dryer!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2023 18:13:01 GMT
We have a washer and a dryer...but the dryer isn't even plugged in. The sun here is so hot that whatever is hung out in the morning is dry by the afternoon. Do you have a switch to turn on/off the water heater? When we were in Doha there was a switch for the hot water heater. In the summertime it was always off because the water tanks were on the roof, so there was no need to heat the water. Just wondered what the situation is there for hot water. Yes. We do the same. We have solar water heaters. We have such a long period of sun that we might turn the switch on 4 months out of the year.
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Post by milocat on Aug 12, 2023 18:49:56 GMT
NZ Pea here as well. Mine's an old dryer - 29 years old now so doesn't have as many settings as newer models but I think it takes about 1 1/2 hours for a load of towels using 'cupboard dry'. I do use the dryer in winter particularly when it's raining a lot but otherwise my preference is to hang the washing outside on the line, even in winter. How cold does it get though? Because as much as I like line dried laundry and I do hang out my clothes that can't be dried in nice weather, I've got to hang them in my basement in winter because they will freeze. So I would say line drying in winter is impossible. Clothes dry in the winter, they freeze dry on the line. My grandma would put out the clothes in almost any weather. It's a dry cold here though so that might be the difference, even when it's -20C, -40 it's always dry. I don't hang stuff in the cold because I don't want to deal with wet clothes and cold temps. My grandma had 2 lines that had a little door on the house and she could stand inside and hang her stuff and wheel it outside. That was so cool. This thread is so interesting, love reading how peas around the world live! Two questions: 1) What is an airer? 2) Does the sun not bleach out the color of your clothing? It does the outside of our curtains, and those are inside. A couple of times towels and our travel chairs have been accidentally left in the backyard and those bleached pretty quickly as well. Your curtains are against the glass windown 25/7/365 you hang your clothes out for a couple hours whenever they get washed. So probably eventually they would fade but the dryer wears them down also.
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Post by beaglemom on Aug 12, 2023 20:56:17 GMT
I didn't have a chance to read all the replies, but we were just in Europe for 3 weeks and stayed in 4 different airbnb's. I learned that a lot of the European dryers have a "water" tank that needs to be emptied after each load is run. It fills up with the water, I assume from the clothes, and then needs to be emptied. Also they are way smaller and take way longer than US machines. I missed my electroluxe so much!
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Post by melanell on Aug 12, 2023 21:56:56 GMT
My apologies because I have not read any replies yet. Also, because I'm a US Pea. But are the ones you are using ventless? We have a ventless dryer, and we do have to take care with what goes in them, both in terms of how much wet clothing, and in regard to the fabrics. If we mix clothing that's mostly cotton with quick-dry fabrics, we'll wind up needing to either fish out the quick-dries & then rerun the others, or we have to hang the others for a bit. So when I run laundry, I keep like fabrics together to make the dryer work more efficiently. I also opt not to put as much clothing into the washer as is possible.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Aug 12, 2023 22:12:20 GMT
It’s one of the more bizarre differences we’ve found. I don’t for a second believe some of these 3-5 hour cycles are more energy efficient so have no clue why a decent dryer is so hard to find. My newest dryer’s average cycle is 35-50 minutes and light loads are dry in 15-20 it’s seriously wacky. We did 3 hour wash and 5 hour dry on our last trip to France and had a better appreciation for what they must consider dirty.
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