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Show Washers, Dryers Let You Waltz Through Washday The time you have to spend on the familys laundry increases in direct proportion to your lack of a modem automatic washer and dryer. The weeks laundry for a family of four that you can do in 4 hours and 22 minutes with an automatic washer and dryer will take you 6 hours and 12 minutes without the dryer and 9 hours and 16 minutes if you have to use a wringer washer. More than five billion dollars are spent each year on and home laundering, many homemakers spend more time at that task than at any oth er except cooking. It is obvious that home laundry appliances are things it pays to make the right decisions about. With that in mind, during October manufacturers, retailers, utilities, trade associations and U.S. Steel are joining in the fifth annual Waltz Through Washday program to show how easy and uncomplicated home laundering can I modern automatic washers and dryers, At first glance the versatile new washers and dryers seem complicated. This is true on the inside where they perform their washday magic. On the outside they have been greatly simplified over models of only a few years ago. On some top models setting a single control on a washer or dryer is all you have to do be with . to completely process any ments, like permanent press, if your washer and dryer conceivable type of load. Automatic washers last an average of about nine years. This is a tribute to their durability, but the owner of a washer labors under a handicap in trying to cope with todays fabrics. The handicap is even more severe for the homemaker who is still limping along without an automatic dryer. You simply cant enjoy the benefits of the new develop- old Cycles Make Dryer And Washer Automatic spin at slow speed. clothes washer and dryer auBright colors Full tub of tomatic. The first automatic warm or cold water, normal washers offered one cycle. wash period at regular speed, The water was hot, the wash cold spray rinse, warm or cold spin speed was fast, the rinse wat- deep rinse, and damp-dr- y er was warm, and the spin at regular speed. Full tub Delicate fabrics dry was fast. This was adebecause for its wash short time, quate of warm water, were a cold nearly all washables period at slow speed, n cottons. cold deep spray rinse, a Now. the proliferation of rinse, and a damp-dr- y spin at n low speed. synthetics, blends and about finishes has brought In dryers, too, the cycle conand permanent-- trols all operations: Once a press cycles that, once cycle is set, it turns the dryer make the washer fill (full, set, medium or low tub) itself on, selects the degree of heat, with water (hot, warm or cold), wash (fast, medium or slow) the clothes, rinse them Of several times (in water the Cycles are what make the damp-dr- y wash-and-iro- no-iro- wash-and-we- ar tumbles the clothes through a stream ture and at speeds the same air until they that the clothes are ready-- in some cases with the tune How Dry I Am. The first dryers had one cycle that ran until you shut it off. Now cycles are controlled by a device or by electronic sensors that actually feel the dryness of the clothes. The electronic control makes the sprinkling of clothes before ironing unnecessary. On the time-temperatu- re of The wash-and-wea- r. cy- cles secret is a hot enough temperature to relax worn-i-n creases, followed by a cooldown conditioning tumble to prevent new wrinkling. Its easy to see that todays automatic washers and dryers gOTOund in the best of cy-- des. Permanent Press Dos And Donts Location same temperature or different from the wash tempera- of reach the desired dryness, turns the dryer off and signals setting, the dryer will shut off when the moisture content of the clothes reaches 18 per cent, considered ideal for ironing. Special dryer cycles can banish ironing from all of and much permanent-pres- s damp-dr- y Lanndry Is Your Choice dont meet their exacting In requirements. laundering toof contents laundering the days wash basket, not only the fiber, fabric and finish but also the construction of an item must be considered. Blankets need gentle agitation for one reason and delicate lingerie needs it for another. Most modern washers have two or more speeds of agitation. To meet exacting requirements, spin speeds can be varied from agitation speeds. A blanket, for instance, washed with gentle agitation should be spun fast to remove as much water as possible. A really dirty permanent-press garment, however, needs vigorous agitation followed by a slow spin to prevent wrinkles. Dispensers on modern washers cant do anything that the homemaker cant, but they do it at the right time everytime. Bleach dispensers add the automatically diluted bleach to the clothes after washing begins, when it is most effective. Fabric-softendispeners add the conditioner to the last rinse automatically. n The automatic rinse of a modem washer is .the key to correct washing of permanent press. Permanent press can be wrinkled if spun while it is still warm from . er cool-dow- washing. come Cold water has a factor in washing days fabrics. beto- A highly pol- ished finish, or a color that is bleedable, will require the wash that is promedium or slow speeds), shut one time there was little At vided automatically by the itself off and signal that its choice about where home your new washers. finished. would be located laundry h or soak Automatic The result is that just about The drudgery, dampness and cycles are other aids in modanything washable at all can disorderliness of this once em, complex laundering. A be washed in some automatic irksome chore banished it to protein soil, for instance, may washers. Some examples of the least habitable part of the set by hot water. A soak be how, cycles eliminate the house, the basement. in cold water beor h guesswork from washing are: au'beautiful The compact, fore washing in hot water is or perman- tomatic washers and dryers the solution. ent press Full tub of warm of have released the today The . indispensable partner (hot if very dirty) water, laundry from its basement of the automatic washer is short wash period at regular bondage to the point that sta the automatic dryer. Aln rinse to tistics show that more than speed, a though long valued for its prevent wrinkles during 58 per cent of the appliances g and convenience, are on or above the first the becomes an absodryer now. floor twin has die permanent press? Many kinds of Which lute necessity with permanent How to Save clothing and household items now come in the finish. Modem Heres a brief rundown on press. This is spelled right washen and dryers, like these from RCA Whirlpool, to for Time locations guarantee you on the permanent-pres- s laundry Washday label, that permanent press will never need the touch of an iron. consider: saying in effect For no ironLaundry area near the kiting, tumble dry. Using the ippliances specified, In older chen is popular. an expert homemaker with a The dryer has been auto-, n DONT expect relittle-use- d a houses pantry mated tothe point where an thorough knowledge of additives sults with permanent press ideal. be ectronic sensor may FS and fabrics should be able to JJ actually unless you tumble dry it often kitchen is feels the The clothes tops turns and sort, wash, dry, fold and finish wmijLhe g g or will Washers convenience. for a week's personal and household have dryer of when about the same results Jnfmf yield I blend and their condition." ideal raciied perfectly as with dryers ffry laundry for a family of 4 in the them through the Permanent-pres- s regular washnand-wea- r. with kitchen appliances. or wash- time shown here. e wrinkles and-weon rtiwmnffr11 wSw automatic cycles The bathroom is another DO buy permanent-pres- s I the same can mean APPLIANCES USED location. dryers convenient Easy garments the wearing the size. Some right Permanen: garments straight from the am plumbing connections keep alterations mussed I dryer. be impractimay down. After getting the costs installation cal. slacks Dresses can and I Rothes hot enough to remove Room adjacent to the bath- be shortened not but I unwanted DONT lengthlet the location room is a good creases, the dryer par- ened Automatic Automatic Wringer heat-sthe of original washer appearance conditions for washer, if permanentthe load with five has washer, it space ticularly cannot crease 01 dryer eliminated. be fng dryer U dryer items deceive ten to press minutes of cool tumbl-nee- d you. They sewing and mending. I regular laundering like I ing to prevent any new wrin-otfaThe garage, or in mild cli- DONT accept permanent washables. And its so kies. seam with items puckmates a breezeway, are; over- press ers or unwanted creases. looked locations. Another benefit of automat-throug-h These washer and last the the remains imperfections hc basement dryer The dryers, .particularly appre- they re again elated by mothers of small best location in many homes. life of the item. us ore about I Automatic dryers have made DO turn permanent-pres- s children, is that fewer sets of basements much more accept- garments with creases or ha clothing and household items , do remember that per- - are needed, because the able for two reasons: you pleats inside out when laundis a finish that I plete laundering process takes ering. This prevents abrasion dont have to carry heavy lets your dryer do your iron- - only an hour or. so. baskets of wet clothes to out- of the sharp, edges. , door lines and you dont have DONT overload washer or affection Mf home laundry a the messy indoor hanging of dryer with permanent-pres- s need 2,Lbeupdating to Launder them in clothes in stormy weather. items. musi advantage of all thejfabr Where you live may have slightly smaller loads so that 4 hsurt, ' 0 hours, 0 hours, ric advances, look over the Ji v16 b8 12 minutoo 22 mnutii 10 minutes an influence on where you they may have room to move offerings of the appliance Y,F. rep lave your laundry. In the about and regain their heat-sdealers ol in these pages during LAUNDRY TIKE FOR FAMILY OF 4 he manufacturer and the re-- the Waltz South nearly half are reportshape. 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