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« on: December 09, 2011, 07:47:49 PM » |
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Just endured an hour of ironing. Don't think there is any more pointless activity that uses energy.
If we were able to ban ironing globally, how many coal-buring power stations could be decommissioned?
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Heinz
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« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2011, 08:20:02 PM » |
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Just endured an hour of ironing. Don't think there is any more pointless activity that uses energy.
If we were able to ban ironing globally, how many coal-buring power stations could be decommissioned?
When the woman isn't here I wash the clothes and tumble dry, but stop the dryer before it gets to the 'tumble cool' stage and carefully fold the still hot clothes straight out of the dryer. Works beautifully and the fussy ironer that the woman is has neither noticed or complained about crumpled clothes in the drawers, so it must work  Doesn't work well on retumbled clothes, needs to be the first time or you might as well get the iron out..... H |
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martin
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« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2011, 10:36:47 PM » |
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Ironing? tumble drying? - crikey! (Do people really still do those things?) - The crumpled shall inherit the earth!  |
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« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2011, 11:01:16 PM » |
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Got to have my photo taken tomorrow well the whole family in a proper studio setting. her indoors requires that all of us look smart. Now wear the hell is that Iron?  ?. Might have to polish my shoes as well???  |
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Heinz
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« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2011, 11:02:34 PM » |
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Ironing? tumble drying? - crikey! (Do people really still do those things?) - The crumpled shall inherit the earth! Agreed, but find me a realistic substitute for the tumble dryer. Drying in the house just makes the house damp, drying outside? It's blown a gale and rained/snowed/hailed for the last couple of months..... As a single bloke I could (did) easily cope with doing my clothes and having no dryer or no washer for that matter, try that with a woman and two small boys... H |
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« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2011, 11:14:41 PM » |
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we use one of these -  - "over" and in front of Rayburn - shove stuff into washing machine, spin dry, bung shirts on hangers, and hang with the rest of the washing on the above, haul up and leave overnight - nice dry and aired washing! We have an iron.......... somewhere! |
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« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2011, 11:36:32 PM » |
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she still insists on using an iron but we also use horses,no tumble dryer.
when i was a nipper, we used to have a horse just like the one in the pic,it worked very well,it was sent up and down on pullies.
i remember getting a warm ear for trying to swing on it like tarzan,,
biff
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Heinz
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« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2011, 11:52:40 PM » |
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we use one of these - image - "over" and in front of Rayburn - shove stuff into washing machine, spin dry, bung shirts on hangers, and hang with the rest of the washing on the above, haul up and leave overnight - nice dry and aired washing! We have an iron.......... somewhere! These suspended dryers are all very well, but where does the water go? IMHO it ends up condensing on the coldest thing it can find, causing damp elsewhere in the house. I have been wondering about some kind of solar dryer based on a tall greenhouse? to get the heat+airflow. Not sure it'll be acceptable to the other half though.... H |
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« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2011, 12:01:14 AM » |
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We've never found any condensation problems in practice with using this sort of airer - we've had ours for around 10 years, and wouldn't be without it!  |
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« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2011, 12:15:58 AM » |
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cant ban it 100% at home , have to leave her a few weapons ....  I Hate ironed clothes |
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« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2011, 12:20:08 AM » |
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If you have to iron use one like this:  rather than load up the grid, or iron in a strong wind if you've a decent wind gen. Our clothes horse doesn't cause condensation problems, either - we have a reasonable exchange of air, helped by the stove. The tumbler drier came as an unwanted part of the £50 AEG washing machine a couple of years ago - it's used infrequently in emergencies. Hate the things almost as much as microwaves. And it's not a patch on the nail above the wood stove, also used in emergencies. |
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« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2011, 02:25:07 AM » |
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I'd definitely put ironing in a different category from tumble drying and shoe polishing.... ironing is pure vanity, with no practical purpose.
I'm not a fan of tumble drying either but since our little one arrived we've had to resort to it more often. There's already condensation on our walls and even the towel rail in front of the radiator takes a couple of days to dry, so I'd argue that a tumble drier does lead to an improved standard of living. Maybe we should just ban the use of the infernal machines for the 6 warmest/driest months of the year...
At least shoe polishing can extend the life of a pair of shoes by protecting the leather... SWMBO is always annoyed that I polish my walking boots (which get scuffed and wet) far more often than I polish my "smart" shoes!
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« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2011, 07:57:31 AM » |
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we use a clothes horse, but to speed it up to tumbled dryer type speeds, we have a desk fan (40w) blowing on it - makes a huuuuge difference.
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« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2011, 10:05:44 AM » |
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Woke up this morning with the idea of vacuum drying clothes. Wonder how much energy it would take to suck the air out compared to heating it and blowing it outside.....?? Would it need air flow through the chamber to remove the water vapour or would just sucking out the air once do it? Would vac. dried clothes be fluffy or flat? May have to play with this idea a little later.....
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« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2011, 10:12:47 AM » |
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I stopped ironing when my son finished secondary school. Everything gets shook out and put on a hanger and put away. 99% of what I wear is fine and anything that isn't has a cardy over anyway.
My OH on the other hand wears shirts. He hadn't really noticed I'd not ironed (Maybe I was never very good at it?) until recently when he bought a shirt in that was SO crumpled up that it had me in hysterics just looking at it. I was nearly crying laughing at the look on his face. Yes he did wear it without ironing it.
You can get clothes a lot dryer than the washer gets them if you have one of those floor standing spinners. They spin at 2700rpm I think compared to 1200 maybe on the washer. You only use it for a minute or so but it'll get tons more water out - which cuts down on condensation inside the house and also means things dry quicker outside too. Would make time needed in a TD less too.
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