On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:09:03 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 4/20/2017 1:56 PM, Micky wrote:
Is tumbling hard on clothes? Not human tumbling wearing clothes, but
tumbling in the dryer. Especially shirts.

Is excessive tumbling hard on clothes?

Does it always get hot inside the dryer when you have the temp set for
warm or hot air, not plain air?

Yes, except for "air dry" it gets warm. Dries faster that way.

Yeah, it's like my dryer having 5 temperature settings, all of them
air and all the same temp.

I think her dryer is broken, but given that it sits on the washer and
even if I got it down there's no room to move it around and I might
not get it back up, and the other problems, I'm not goiung to offer to
fix it.

The question is whether to tell her its broken.

Never
noticed any excessive wear from drying.

The clothes dried fine on the line but the next time I was in a hurry.
I tried both positions, and it never got hot inside the dryer. Not the
slightest. And my clothes didn't seem to dry. So I took them all
out and spread them over the back seat of the car, then went away for
a couple days.

Have not used a line for years.

Me neither, until this time. But I have used the shwoer bar when the
dryer was broken. The clothes do seem stifffer at first but later it
seems the same.

Bird crap, pollen, cold in the winter.
They come out softer from the dryer anyway and less labor. Never tried
the back set of my car though.

Here the winters are mild, the roof of the building covers it, and
it's clsoe to the dryer.



FWIW, the dryer goes one direction for a couple minutes, pauses for 5
or 10 seconds and then reverses.


Never saw tht happen but European design may be different.

This is why it's supposed to be drying. I think when the time is up,
it just stops. My own dryer only goes in one direction but it spins
for about 10 seconds every 5 or 10 minutes, about 10 times, to keep
the clothes from getting wrinkled.


Her washer also took about an hour iirc, even though I chose the
shortest wash time, 20 minutes. Mine takes 45 though that's partly
because when it's sitting there doing nothing, I advance it a notch,
and it does the next thing.. Hers was so un-obvious even after her
explanation I dl'd the manual, partly to be learn what those strange
symbols mean** and even that was confusing, something about pre-wash.

**It had one line over the water for something, two lines for
something else, a 3rd kind of water for something else. Why can't
they just make eveyone learn English.