If you need to use a clothes dryer regularly, here’s some efficiency tips that will help reduce environmental impact and save you money.
1. Clean your lint filter regularly. A clogged up lint filter can extend the drying time (and therefore boost energy use) by a massive 30 percent!
2. Ensure your dryer isn’t overloaded. Air needs to circulate easily between the clothes in order for drying to be most effective.
3. Open a window when using the dryer. A closed up laundry gets very humid and that humid air just gets sucked into the dryer; decreasing its effectiveness.
4. Heavier items should be dried separately to light weight clothes.
5. Many modern clothes dryers have a cool-down cycle which allows the clothes to complete drying with the remaining heat in the dryer
6. Ensure you use the fastest spin cycle possible in your washing machine – the wetter the clothes, the longer they’ll take to dry.
7. If your dryer is used a great deal, try and co-ordinate the timing so that loads quickly follow each other to take advantage of residual heat.
