This time of year, I've noticed, produces the nicest smelling laundry when it's dried on a clothesline. What I like to do is put some clothes on the line about 6 PM... just before the sun goes down. During the night, the crisp, cool night produces lots of dew. I'll leave the moist laundry on the line in the morning, and when I come home for lunch, take the laundry off the line after it's dried in the the sun during the morning. The laundry has an amazing fresh smell that cannot be reproduced by any detergent perfumes! In fact, to enjoy this effect the best, use unscented detergents, and no fabric softener!
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Perfect! Enjoy!
During the night, the crisp, cool night produces lots of dew
Something about the overnite 'dew' makes me think that the clothes are not clean anymore. I will line dry during the day, but would never think of leaving them out overnight.
Something about the overnite 'dew' makes me think that the clothes are not clean anymore. I will line dry during the day, but would never think of leaving them out overnight.
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Down here with all the crap in the air from the trees if we left our sheets hanging out overnight they would be covered in the morning with all kind of green dust from the trees.
But I do agree about the smell you get from line drying in the sun. It's just wonderful! And if you iron the pillowcases afterwards they smell even better!
But I do agree about the smell you get from line drying in the sun. It's just wonderful! And if you iron the pillowcases afterwards they smell even better!
cycla-fabric
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I admit I like to hang out the wash on the line too in the evening. I mainly do wash in the evening and if I know the next day it going to be nice out goes the wash on the line. The smell of the laundry is great when you take it down too. Sheets smell so fresh when making the bed and as an added bonus they dry wrinkle free too! Dryer, dryed sheets are always a wrinkled mess.
Cycla-Fabric
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The phenomenon is similar to putting laundry on the grass to dry and get bleached by the sun. When the dew on your clothes gets exposed to the sun's ultraviolet radiation, a tiny bit of oxygen is turned into ozone. Oxygen is normally a diatomic molecule meaning one atom is bound to another because of the valence charges. If this were not the case, oxygen atoms would be bonding with everything much faster and more dangerously than the diatomic version does now. Ozone is triatomic, so somewhere a diatomic molecule of oxygen has to be broken to supply the extra atom of oxygen to make a molecule of ozone. That split is facilitated by the molecules of water being excited by the ultraviolet radiation as the sun shines on them. In the process oxygen is liberated which causes bleaching. The water in the fabrics helps bind the fresh fragrance of ozone to them. That's the main reason chorine bleach works. Sodium hypochlorite NaOCl in an aqueous solution reacts with water to give up the oxygen when the diluted solution loses its stability. Sodium and Chlorine remain behind and eventually combine to form table salt, sodium chloride, NaCl. The very liberated single atom of oxygen seeks out something that will accept its double bond and in bonding with what is causing the stain, breaks the link holding it together. The same goes for many dyes which is why oxygen removes colors, not chlorine directly. The same is not true of a rust stain which is FeO. Its oxygen-iron bond is stable and oxygen cannot help it. But hit it with an acid that will take up oxygen, a process called reduction bleaching and the FeO bonds break leaving soluble iron to be rinsed away and the stain gone.
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No dryer in the US longer?
If either there in US you are discontinuing to use the dryer and you hang out clothes like here we've been doing for centuries...
Won't there be no dryer in the US in the next years??!?!
)) LOL
I suppose that if your laundy has been spun at 800rpm or more (1000rpm for mine), you have ONLY to take it out for a while, considering "enough" to leave it for the whole night.
A aunt of mine, has always hung out clothes all the night, she say sun get clothes fade, while another aunt say the opposite, that's the sunnier hours you take the advantage of taking out laundry, the shiner you get them! Obvsiusly it makes no sense for colours!!!
Look at the weather forecast, in any case!!! Sometimes it happens to me to forget out the laundry hung on the linedry, and it went raining!!! More often it happend the same to my neighbours!LOL
Well the soft air of the night dry your clothes I think better than any dryer ever known.
Bye
Diomede
If either there in US you are discontinuing to use the dryer and you hang out clothes like here we've been doing for centuries...
Won't there be no dryer in the US in the next years??!?!
)) LOLI suppose that if your laundy has been spun at 800rpm or more (1000rpm for mine), you have ONLY to take it out for a while, considering "enough" to leave it for the whole night.
A aunt of mine, has always hung out clothes all the night, she say sun get clothes fade, while another aunt say the opposite, that's the sunnier hours you take the advantage of taking out laundry, the shiner you get them! Obvsiusly it makes no sense for colours!!!
Look at the weather forecast, in any case!!! Sometimes it happens to me to forget out the laundry hung on the linedry, and it went raining!!! More often it happend the same to my neighbours!LOL
Well the soft air of the night dry your clothes I think better than any dryer ever known.
Bye
Diomede
line dried washing
I love to see my washing being line dried. Particulalrly on a hot day ( i know is Scotland we don't get too many of these) whe I do 6 or 7 washes and as one goes out the first ones dry. Smelling fresh and easier to iron. However come november I get lazy and put everything in the dryer as the weather is to unpredictable and will use the dryer constantly till february.
I love to see my washing being line dried. Particulalrly on a hot day ( i know is Scotland we don't get too many of these) whe I do 6 or 7 washes and as one goes out the first ones dry. Smelling fresh and easier to iron. However come november I get lazy and put everything in the dryer as the weather is to unpredictable and will use the dryer constantly till february.
We often find that it has rained on our washing - I just think of it as a free extra rinse.
I remember reading once that it is considered bad Feng Shui to leave washing out overnight. I can't remember why. I'm not really into that anyway.
chris
I remember reading once that it is considered bad Feng Shui to leave washing out overnight. I can't remember why. I'm not really into that anyway.
chris
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line drying
Have to add my knowledge as well....smile!
Well, leaving the washing on the line over night is not the best you can do for it. The longer it stays humide especially in warm conditions, the more bacterias and fungus can grow on it; not that you can see them, but it happens. When it is cold, washing dries on a line much slowlier but than also the temperature is down to stop immediate growth of them. Also animals might stay in the washing overnight (insects) and also dirt from the air could stick to the humid surface.
The only place to dry washing overnight should be the attic or a special room for that purpose in the basement. Line drying is the best you can do for your washing! No scrub and rub, no strain to the fibres like in a tumbler! No energy use - so best for our little planet. No costs! Better airing than in any machine! But some points have to be kept in mind!!
NEVER dry dark colourds and bright coloureds in the direct sun-light - they will fade!
ALWAYS dry whites in direct sun-light when available - they will become the whitest possible and they will be disinfected as well!
NEVER dry woollens in a hanging position on a line nor in the sun or in a hot place - it will ruin the fabric and lengthen it from it's own weight (same with silk).
WARM WIND and A SHADY PLACE are best to dry coloureds and delicates (also synthetics!)
WARM WIND and SUN are best for whitest whites and fastest drying possible!
Ralf
Have to add my knowledge as well....smile!
Well, leaving the washing on the line over night is not the best you can do for it. The longer it stays humide especially in warm conditions, the more bacterias and fungus can grow on it; not that you can see them, but it happens. When it is cold, washing dries on a line much slowlier but than also the temperature is down to stop immediate growth of them. Also animals might stay in the washing overnight (insects) and also dirt from the air could stick to the humid surface.
The only place to dry washing overnight should be the attic or a special room for that purpose in the basement. Line drying is the best you can do for your washing! No scrub and rub, no strain to the fibres like in a tumbler! No energy use - so best for our little planet. No costs! Better airing than in any machine! But some points have to be kept in mind!!
NEVER dry dark colourds and bright coloureds in the direct sun-light - they will fade!
ALWAYS dry whites in direct sun-light when available - they will become the whitest possible and they will be disinfected as well!
NEVER dry woollens in a hanging position on a line nor in the sun or in a hot place - it will ruin the fabric and lengthen it from it's own weight (same with silk).
WARM WIND and A SHADY PLACE are best to dry coloureds and delicates (also synthetics!)
WARM WIND and SUN are best for whitest whites and fastest drying possible!
Ralf
