It's laundry day every three or four weeks here

[combo52]

This is three weeks worth of laundry, I sort into the machines or pile in front of the machines came up with seven good size loads, there's enough capacity with the 50 gallon gas water heater that I can start all the machines at the same time on the hottest temperature setting each machine provides without running out of hot water.

In a little over an hour, clothing is starting to go into the five gas dryers and because it's fairly cold out today I use the two Frigidaire condenser filtrated dryers in the adjoining display room, to throw a little bit of heat back into the house.

I love this time of year to do laundry because our cold water is about 45°. It gives such a nice clean fresh rinse to pull clothing out thats nice and cool from the machine machines.

A few pictures

 

[repairguy]

I enjoyed getting to see your laundry setup in person several years ago. Maybe one day I’ll get to check it out again.

 

[qsd-dan]

There's no way I could go 3 weeks without doing laundry. Hell, more than 3-4 days and I start getting nervous twitches. Besides, I don't think my entire wardrobe adds up to 3 weeks.

"there's enough capacity with the 50 gallon gas water heater that I can start all the machines at the same time on the hottest temperature setting each machine provides without running out of hot water."

That math doesn't pan out here. Maybe if they were all front loaders, better yet with a heater. Even my 80 gallon commercial water heater set to 160F couldn't pull that off with the machines you have displayed.

45F temps?

Yeah, I'll pass on that (Lovingly pats my tempering valve set to 85F).

 

[maytag85]

Laundry day is everyday around here, though I do give myself a day off from time to time. When I was younger, there’s was so much laundry in the laundry room to the point where you almost couldn’t open the door (yikes!), but ever since I’ve pretty much been doing laundry on a daily basis, hasn’t ever gotten to that point ever again in 10 years.

It’s more difficult and overwhelming to let things pile up to a mountain vs staying on top of things on a daily basis. Can be somewhat stressful up front, but in the long run is easier to deal with than running around last minute before guests and family come over to visit.

 

[gansky1]

 

 

Looks like a fun day - I love having big piles of laundry to do, but then the mandatory folding is my least favorite part.

 

[combo52]

Monthly laundry day

The hot water breakdown is as follows. I start with 135° water 50 gallons, the whirlpool resource saver uses about 15 gallons of hot. I always set it on the hot setting which is 100° on that machine then that machine drains into the Belt drive lady Kenmore giving a plenty hot enough wash for a load of colored outerwear.

The Speed Queen front loader had a huge load of jeans in it. I always set that for a hot wash and a hot pre-wash that ends up using about 7 gallons and getting the temperature inside the machine to about 120 or 25°, the calypso next to it uses about 5 gallons of all hot water. The lady Kenmore combo uses about 5 gallons of hot water maybe six it does a purge at the beginning to flush any cold water out of the machine to warm it up a little bit and then the Speed Queen small door front loader to the right of it uses about five or 6 gallons of hot water so somewhere around 40 gallons of hot water is used rapidly which the water heater easily keeps up with. I never use top loaders anymore without reusing the wash water at least once it's just to wasteful detergent is too expensive, etc..

Going a month without doing laundry is no problem. I think I could go two months with the amount of clothing we both have and then we both spend maybe a half an hour folding at all takes a little over an hour of effort to get all the laundry through The machines and dryers.

I do do dishes on a daily basis we run one of the dishwashers almost every day cause we do a lot of cooking. That's something you can't put off for a month, lol

By doing laundry and frequently it gives you something to really look forward to like Greg said it doesn't become a chore

John

 

[Unimatic1140]

I don't own enough clothes to only do wash once every 3 weeks John lol, wow that's a lot of wash to have to fold all at once! I love using my machines so the longest I go without doing laundry is about 4 days. I generally do 6 different types of wash loads and only do them when their respective basket is filled up enough for a Unimatic to GE-V12 size load, the only exception is the sheets which I just do once a week. If I go too long and the load is larger than normal I use my '65 20lb Wards or Frigidaire 1-18. Never have I felt laundry is a chore, but that's just me lovin' my collection.

My 6 loads in rotation for the two of us:
1. Whites,
2. Bath Towels,
3. Cleaning Rags,
4. Sheets,
5. Colors that go into the dryer,
6. Colors that get hung to dry.

 

[peteski50]

Laundry Day!

Wish I was their to use these great machines
Happy Washing

 

[ryner1988]

For a household of two people, I've usually done two or three loads a week using a top loader. Especially with the VMW and it's weaker suspension, I didn't feel comfortable running super-large loads. I did much larger loads when I had my direct drive Whirlpool. It remains to be seen how my laundry routine will look long-term with the new front loader. John, do you think my 7 cu. ft. Whirlpool dryer can handle the maximum amount of laundry the LG washer can accommodate? If so, I can probably cut down to two loads every ten days or so easily.

 

[combo52]

Laundry day

Hi Ryne your 7 ft.³ whirlpool dryer should have no trouble drying anything that you can wash in that new LG front loader, the whirlpool dryer was made for much heavier clothing because it was originally made it to machines. It only spun at 525 RPMs.

If you packed the LG incredibly full of clothing, you could get to a point with the whirlpool dryer where things may not be as wrinkle free as you would like, but it won't hurt the dryer any or the clothing.

When I was doing my laundry in the above example, I washed 10 pairs of work jeans in the Speed Queen front loader. I normally split that into two 7 ft.³ whirlpool dryers just so that they will be wrinkle free I can't believe how nicely the jeans come out with barely a wrinkle when you only dry five pairs in a load. My jeans are 34 inch inseam and Todd's are 36 inch and I find small compact dryers even my old Ken combo. Leave these jeans to wrinkled up.

I don't know how you really tall guys in the Netherlands deal with the little dryers. I guess people do a lot more ironing than I do as I do zero ironing in a year time, lol.

John

 

[jons1077]

Laundry day

I’ve got a ticket for Delta burning a hole in my pocket. I need to get back over there for a visit!