Temperature settings on your tumble dryer may be a bit baffling because surely the hottest setting will dry your clothes the fastest, right? Well, in short, that is true, but it could also damage some of your clothes! Using higher temperature settings on your dryer isn’t all that great for the environment either or your …
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If anyone in your household wears shirts every day for work or for school, then you’ll know how difficult it can be to keep shirts crease-free or how frequently the ironing board is out. That pile of wrinkly clothes can often look quite daunting, so what if you didn’t have to iron everything!? There are …
We all know to look at the labels in our clothes before we wash them, but some of those symbols can be a bit ambiguous at times. With a bunch of different shapes with dots, crosses and lines… it can be hard to decipher what those little pictograms are telling you to do. So here’s …
If you’ve stayed in a nice hotel, then you’ll have surely noticed the lovely wrinkle-free sheets that greet you when it’s time to hit the hay. Climbing into a fresh hotel bed at the end of a busy day is a treat that many of us only get to experience every once in a while, …
You’ve just stripped the bed and you head to the drawer to grab some fresh new sheets. As you redress the bed you notice some pretty deep creases in your bedding and it just makes the bed look… well, not great. Many people yearn to have bedrooms that look as pristine as a swish hotel …
It’s not just washing machines that can be prone to causing a racket, tumble dryers can be just as noisy, depending on the model you choose. On this page, we’ve collected the quietest tumble dryers we could find on the market. How Loud Are Tumble Dryers? Appliance noise is usually referred to in dB (decibels) …
Condenser tumble dryers work by condensing warm damp air from clothes inside the drum into water, which is then deposited into a container to be emptied once drying has finished. This means they can be located almost anywhere in a house or flat, as they don’t rely on connecting a hose to a vent or …
Down jackets are fantastic at keeping you warm, but only if they are nice and fluffy. If the down inside the jacket is flat, it cannot trap heat properly. How can you fluff up a down jacket after washing it? Well, fluffing up a down jacket really isn’t too difficult. In fact, here’s two ways …
If you’ve just got a new tumble dryer with loads of fancy programmes, you may be a bit confused. But never fear. If you’re struggling to decipher your tumble dryer programmes, this article should help. Now, we can’t cover every tumble dryer and every setting here. Instead, we’re going to focus on cotton dry and …
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Are you struggling to wash your silk garments? Even if you follow the instructions perfectly, are your silks coming out stiff? Well, don’t worry. Stiff silks are a common problem. No matter what you do, it feels like silk can always be stiff after washing. Well, there’s something that you can do to soften up …
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