Laundry and Ironing

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

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

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

Ah, one of the greatest tumble dryer questions ever asked! Throwing towels in the tumble dryer can often be accompanied by a feeling of the unknown. Will the towels take forever to dry? Will the towels come out feeling really rough? Is there a way of speeding up a towel’s drying time? Well, if you

Before you put any new clothes in your tumble dryer, it’s worth looking for this label. The label that is pictured below. The “Do Not Tumble Dry” symbol is a square with a circle inside it with a cross going through the centre of it. The “Tumble Dry” symbol is just the square and the

We’ve all been there! You’re tired, you’ve had a long day, but you decide to put on a wash anyway. When it comes time to hang the washing up or transfer it into the tumble dryer, your mind, body, and soul just cannot face the chore! So, how long can you leave clothes in the

If you’ve ever pulled a load of washing out and seen a light pink tint to some items that were once a bright and beautiful white, you might want to know what colours you can wash together. Everyone knows that you shouldn’t wash bright colours with whites, for example, but are there any other rules?

There are plenty of riddles that clothing companies love to throw into garments that can make washing them a real headache. That is, unless you are up to date with all washing requirement by-laws, of course! One of these riddles is “wash with like colours”, which can also be written as “wash with similar colours”