6 Laundry Tips That Can Help Make Laundry So Much Easier
We all know how frustrating dealing with laundry can be. It is repetitive, time-consuming, and can be overwhelming at times. Dirty laundry littering your rooms, clothes that have been left in the washer for too long and have begun to smell of damp, shrinking cotton, darker dyes bleeding into whites and light-colored garments, and of course, rumpled clothes that never get put away. There is so much that can go wrong with your laundry, but there has to be some kind of solution, right? We culled a bunch of tips to make doing laundry easier for you.
Tip #1 Don’t Let Dirty Laundry Hit the Floor
An excellent way to break the cycle of laundry piling up is to prevent dirty clothes from ever hitting the floor. Whenever you remove your clothes, bedsheets, curtains, or anything that needs washing, make sure to store them in hampers or washing baskets placed strategically around the house.
Crisis 1: Averted. Now on to the next part.
Tip #2 Sort Your Clothes
Any laundry must go through 3 types of sorts in its wash cycle.
● Weave Strength - The weave strength of a piece of cloth decides whether it is best suited for a delicate, regular, or heavy wash cycle. Lingerie, loosely woven knitwear, and most dry-clean only items can be added to delicate wash cycles. (Dry-clean only items should be laid flat to dry immediately after the wash lest you end up creasing them) Fabrics with a sturdier weave - denim, cotton, and synthetic work well with regular or heavy wash cycles.
● Color - Always segregate your laundry into four piles - dark, medium, light, and pure whites. Put color mixes with a dark base in the medium pile and light bases in the light. On occasions when you run of time, you can wash your light pile with the pure white pile but avoid it to be better safe than sorry.
● Temperature - White and light-colored laundry is washed best in hot water, mediums in lukewarm, and darks in cold water.
Tip #3 Load the Washer the Right Way
When loading the clothes into the washer, you should always turn them inside out. Unroll the sleeves and cuffs and make sure the pockets are empty. Zip close any zippers to prevent the metal from scratching the washer’s basin. If the cloth has any heavy stains, pretreat them.
Tip #4 Make Sure to Use the Right Detergent
Contrary to popular belief, detergents don’t come one size fits all. We recommend you to get your hands on an entire assortment of daily-use, odor-removal, whitening, and stain-removing detergents. You should also have a separate cleaning solution for delicate items.
When you pour the detergent, make a note of the maximum fill lines marked in the washer.
Tip #5 Don’t Leave Your Laundry to Sit in the Washer
Leaving your laundry to sit for too long in the washer is going to make your clothes stink. You will have to rewash the load to get rid of the moldy smell and possibly add scented soaps that can wear down the quality of the fabrics over time.
Tip #6 Fold Your Clothes As Soon As You Get Them Out of the Dryer
The final step to conquering your laundry demons is to tackle the folding right the minute it comes out of the dryer. Fold the clothes into piles - sweatshirts, shirts, pants, underwear and so on. This way your clothes don’t wrinkle and you completely eliminate the possibility of clean laundry stacking atop your chairs. Keep your rooms spic and span, without piles of laundry that cast creepy shadows at night.
Clean Laundry is Just a Click Away
King’s Green Cleaning has come out with a laundry delivery service by the name of King Spin Laundry Services right here in Edmond, OK. Getting your laundry done has never been so easy.
Create an account with us, set your preferences and schedule a pick-up. We will deliver you your laundry, washed and folded, within 24-48 hours. You can also download our app on Google Play (Android) or AppStore (iPhone).
