It takes HOW long to dry the clothes?
We have a combination washer/dryer…something that I was warned against before we signed up for this apartment…but hey, we didn’t have much choice in the matter…and it is a NEW machine. The real estate agent told me that you can speed things up by drying only half a load at a time. My first load of wash was an all day affair. First you wash…on the econo setting it takes two hours to wash one load (the water heats up in the machine). Then if you split the load in half and dry on the lower of the two heats it takes about two hours for each load of drying. Do the math…that is 6 hours for one load of laundry and there is no such thing as throwing a load in the washer while the other load is drying!
The drying process is interesting. The clothes go round and get hot and then the dryer spins the condensation out of the machine and the cycle starts again…heat, toss, condense, spin, heat toss, condense spin…in a small drum…until the clothes are dry… all that spinning causes lots of wrinkles. Even the sheets are too wrinkled to put on the bed…and the duvet covers!!!! total disaster….
I was able to find directions for operating the machine in English (on line) and have since figured out that I can greatly shorten the wash cycle by picking different settings and adjusting the length of the wash. We can now wash each batch for an hour or so…Drying is more complicated. Only two settings…Very wrinkly or somewhat wrinkly. Or hang the stuff up to dry on the drying rack.
Andrus Foe Paws 