It can be daunting to put your laundry in the dryer when your favorite shirt or shorts can shrink or get damaged by the heat. The newer, more advanced clothes dryers offer amazing tricks that make cleaning more accessible.
High-Tech Dryers: What Can They Do?
You can handle wet sneakers without disturbing neighbors and delicates without making them shrink.
It would help if you were looking for a drum rack with an interior slide to block a sweater or stabilize bulky items.
Zap Germs – and Clothing Moths
Take a look at the available options. They should include a sanitizer that kills 99.9% of the bacteria. Moth larvae will soon be toast with that heat.
Get a new look for tonight’s outfit. No detergent required
You can bypass the washer by going straight to the dryer’s steam option. This will reduce odors and wrinkles and speed up your time to get out the door.
Save Energy
With a promise of cutting annual energy costs by around $20, the first Energy Star-certified dryers are now available. One kilowatt at a time, saving the planet.
You can sense when it’s time to heat up and cool off.
The moisture sensors are more reliable than thermostats. They eliminate the guesswork of drying time and don’t make fabric the same as beef jerky. You can set dryers to stop when clothes become mildly damp. You can tell when it is time to hang up your clothes or iron them with a sharp trill.
Stop Ironing, As You Know It
The perm-press setting slows down tumbling to reduce wrinkles. Steam injectors are available on some machines to help reduce wrinkles. Extended-tumble settings allow clothes not to dry out and prevent them from hardening.
The Duct is about to catch fire!
Some dryers can sense when the filter or the Duct are clogged with lint and will display a message on their touch screen. Some dryers will even send you an SMS. Genius.