introduction of laundry?

Answer 1

-put your clothes in the washing machine
-select a temperature for your clothing, whites towels and heavily soiled, hot water with a cold rinse, anything else warm water with a cold rinse
-select your garment, usually normal, perm press, or delicates, i use normal,
-put in your selected laundry soap
-if it has a start button press, if not pull out to start it should tell you.
-wait for about a half hour
-put clothes in the dryer
-select tempeture
-select drying time i use normal or regular or perm press
-wait about an hour and a half
-fold
presto your done

Answer 2

I assume you are asking for misc laundry tips because you don't know how to do it. I have some tips.

First, if the amount of laundry is a problem:

Wash towels and blankets less often. Sheets every two weeks or every month. Towels once a week, hang and reuse two per week per family member.

Decrease the size of your wardrobe. Many times people buy more clothes because everything is dirty. But LESS clothes in the closet means less clothes in the laundry pile. Wash more often and you will have a less intimidating pile of laundry. Hang and re-wear clothes that aren't really dirty after one wearing. And all this depends on having a well chosen collection of clothes that are versatile...so they go with different items and your outfits stay fresh. Start with getting rid of anything that doesn't fit, is hopelessly worn or out of date, anything you HATE. If there is a lot of stuff left over, first put away the out of season clothes. Then you can try splitting the current season in half, a little of each in two mini-collections that function separately. Then swap them out periodically according to your mood and the seasons. You will discover new favorites (having less to choose from) and when you swap, the clothes coming out of storage will be new again.

OK Laundry details:

Check tags to make sure you can wash and dry your items. Many dress clothes need dry cleaning. You can freshen some pieces in the dryer with a home kit called Dryell.

For wash and dry clothing, first SORT.

Whites and light colors can go together.
Bold, bright colors can go together. Watch reds carefully because red typically bleeds onto other clothes.
Darks can go together.

Towels wash well together.
Sheets wash well together.
Jeans wash well together. (I do a hook and zipper load, regardless of color, for jeans and cotton bras...this keeps my other stuff from getting damaged.
Sweaters can be washed together, or with similar colors if there isn't any damaging pieces on the other clothes.

Lots of times, I will do my no-dryer loads first, get them hung up, and they are line drying while I wash and dry the rest. Jump starts the whole laundry process, lots of quick wash loads.

To use the washer:
Water temp setting is so overrated. Hot water is unnecessary unless someone has been sick. Don't use hot for any dark or bright colors, because the dye will bleed. Don't use hot for many fabrics, they will shrink.

Choose water level and wash cycle (which is basically how hard the machine agitates your clothes). Turn the knob and then pull it back out to start the machine.

While the water is running, add detergent and other wash additives (more later), then clothes to let them dissolve in the water, not clump on the clothes.

To operate the dryer:
Add clothes, dryer sheet on top if you use them. Select heat. Many dryers allow you to time dry for a certain number of minutes OR to run on a moisture sensor and stop when clothes are dry, then toss clothes every few minutes until you get them out so they don't wrinkle. Also very important to maintain dryers is to check lint filter after every load.

Laundry products:

Detergents are the only necessary product. Many have fabric softener in them, or additives like color safe bleach or odor fighters. Many work well in any temp water, and some are formulated for front load machines (less suds). There are powders and liquids. Liquids are more costly but dissolve better in cold water. Some cheap detergents, like Arm and Hammer, are every bit as good as the high dollar ones like Tide.

Fabric softeners come in liquid and dryer sheets, liquids are great for softening, sheets are good for static cling. You add liquid to a Downy ball (fill and plug with the rubber stopper, when the washer does the first spin to drain soapy water and fill with rinse water, the centrifigal force throws the plug out of the ball, allowing it to mix with rinse water) or the dispenser on the rim of your washer tub or in the middle of the machine (on top of the agitator). Dryer sheets go on top of your clothes in the dryer.

Bluing is a whitener, it is actually an optical illusion that leaves your white items a very pale shade of blue that looks white.

Borax is a whitener and detergent booster, I think? it softens the water so detergents work better.

(soft water cleans everything better...reduces surface tension on the water so detergents can penetrate fabrics better, and soils are released easier. If you have really hard water you may want detergent formulated for hard water, OR add vinegar, baking soda, or borax)

Baking soda freshens stinky laundry and is also an excellent fabric softener. Add one cup per wash load at the beginning of the cycle.

Vinegar also deodorizes and softens.

Color safe bleach helps brighten colors.

Spray and Wash and other pretreaters are best used when you first get the stain, then they can sit in the hamper and the product can work until you wash the garment. Use only on the stain.

Chlorine bleach is for disinfecting and whitening clothes. Can stain/blotch the clothes white, and also can eat through clothes leaving holes.

A tip, I do this, is to buy cheap febreze type products and either spray on clothes before drying or add a quarter cup to the wash load. Yummy smelling clothes.

Fold or hang immediately to avoid wrinkles. If you line dry stuff, you can toss most items in the dryer for a few minutes to get the stiffness out of them.

Line drying outdoors on a sunny day not only makes clothes smell WONDERFUL (if you have clean air) but also the sunshine helps disinfect clothing...but sunshine can fade laundry over time.

Answer 3

1.separate your dark clothes from your white
2.Put clothes in washer
3.Put in detergent, if liquid on clothing, if powder put in section where it says detergent
4.The turn on.
This is the man's way, easy short to the point.