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I don’t encounter that problem. My problem is extreme twisting in the washer, and the dryer.
Based on experience with everything from an industrial Kenmore that made the whole house shake, older frontloaders, very modern frontloaders and now a fairly modern toploader with no agitator... a lot depends on following the manufacturer's load/loading instructions closely. (Something I have direct experience with: my ex was one of those people who learned her household skills on Mom's 1972 appliances and thought learning to use vastly updated and changed ones was for gullible idiots. Her Ph.D. did not keep us from having no towel in the house without a bleach burn, because she knew the bleach cup was just useless junk that did the same thing as pouring it in the bottom before loading.)
I've never had any of the newer machines twist my clothes. Compact them like a steamroller on ultra-spin, yes. And I can't think of a time a dryer did anything of the kind.
I suggest you are overloading, misloading or mixing fabric types too much. And might want to look into the proper use of the three or four different load settings, including 'Delicate.'
I'd add that you might just have a crappy washer, but there is almost no variation in the function and operation of newer machines of each given type. Like refrigerators, C-R has long noted that nearly every one of the machines does its basic job very well, leaving only details and outside color as real choices.
Yes - sheets especially. I don't wind them around and yet they get so twisted and wrinkled that they never come out nice from the dryer. Of course once in the dryer they roll up in a ball and never get dry!
I purposely wash clothes inside out. I've read it's better for the clothing, and in the process of turning the clothing right side out again, I find the socks and underwear that have attached themselves with static.
I purposely wash clothes inside out. I've read it's better for the clothing, and in the process of turning the clothing right side out again, I find the socks and underwear that have attached themselves with static.
If only there was some way to eliminate dryer static. You know, there's a fortune waiting for the guy who figures out a solution to that.
Yes - sheets especially. I don't wind them around and yet they get so twisted and wrinkled that they never come out nice from the dryer. Of course once in the dryer they roll up in a ball and never get dry!
It seems to the way the new He machines are designed. Kind of pain, no? But a first world problem.
I've never had any of the newer machines twist my clothes. Compact them like a steamroller on ultra-spin, yes. And I can't think of a time a dryer did anything of the kind.
I suggest you are overloading, misloading or mixing fabric types too much.
Agree that you may be overloading the dryer. If there's no space for the heated air to circulate and the fabric to tumble, it won't!
Oh, yeah. There is! Figured out hundreds of years ago - clotheline and drying racks .
Used 'em for years. In fact, the house I grew up in had an absurdly large supply - there was a tall frame, maybe 10-12 feet, with big swings attached, and the crossbar was the other end for four pulley-riding clotheslines at least... 50 feet long. An army base's worth. I dunno why the owner built it.
Then I lived in New England, where the few days between snow and 100% humidity made any such thing pretty useless.
And now in 17% humidity Colorado... I rarely have enough of a load to hang out. I'll hang dog blankets and the like over the porch railing, though.
Line-dried towels, though... mmmm. Maybe I need a little clothesline again.
I have never had this happen, that I recall. I'm over 60, so have been doing laundry for decades.
I actually frequently intentionally turn some clothing inside out before washing. To make sure the interior gets clean, and to protect the outside of the fabric.
I do, however, lose a sock now and then. Where DO those missing socks go?
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