Here's A New Angle To Sell Ironers

[brisnat81]

My aunt and uncle ran a motel for 10 years. The Sheets and duvet covers were processed by a commercial laundry, but the coloured pillowcases were laundered onsite.

As a kid, they'd pay me 1c per Pillow case to press them. With the Elnapress you basically could do the entire pillow case in 4 movements with two folds.

I cant imagine using one for regular ironing, unless you were ironing a lot of collarless T Shirts.

 

[launderess]

For anything but the smallest flatwork

Napkins, towels, tea cloths, pillow slips, etc... You are either must resign to folding and pressing in creases, or spending ages maneuvering things around to avoid.

Truth to tell those using both domestic ironers and presses have that same issue. Neither are sold today in widths anywhere near large enough to accommodate even twin sheets folded just the once. So you have to either get used to ironed in creases or sit yourself down for prolonged periods of ironing. Trick then becomes keeping freshly ironed/pressed sections from becoming mussed while moving onto other parts.

 

[iej]

I don't iron any of those.
I iron pillow cases but I do bed linen like this:

Take out of dryer .. straight onto bed. Iron bed with steam generator.

 

[launderess]

Well yes, you could do things that way.

Tumble drying largely replaced ironing upon their wide introduction and spread into homes or commercial laundries. Most housewives/homes sent men's shirts out and everything else went into dryer.

All of my household linens are just that; made from linen or hemp, and none of it goes into dryer. Things are either cold mangled or ironed (by hand or machine).

 

[iej]

I don't really wear extremely form shirts, but I generally just do them like this:

1. Wash on shirts cycle in the Miele which ends with a steam care cycle.
2. Hang on plastic hangers on a rack and let air dry naturally.
3. Iron

I don't generally dry any of my t-shirts in the dryer either. Just spin fast, and hang up. They're typically dry in a few hours.