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Drying clothes in the apartment: How to avoid mold growth in winter

2020-10-15T13:12:53.614Z


The cold weather forces many to hang up their laundry in the apartment to dry. To prevent mold from forming, you should follow the tips below.


The cold weather forces many to hang up their laundry in the apartment to dry.

To prevent mold from forming, you should follow the tips below.

The summer is now really over and with it the days when you could safely hang your laundry outside *.

If you don't have a washroom, you have to let your wet clothes dry in the apartment for better or worse.

There are a few things you need to consider to prevent mold growth.

Spin the laundry properly

When drying clothes in the apartment

, the humidity in the rooms increases by 30 percent

.

So to avoid moisture damage, you should make sure that the laundry comes out of the washing machine as dry as possible - and you can do this by setting the spin

speed as high as possible

.

However, you should still make sure that your laundry can handle high speeds - you should be particularly careful with fine fabrics.

In addition, the laundry comes out of the washing machine drier if you don't overload it too much.

So make sure you have an adequate amount of laundry.

Not too little so that you do not use electricity and water unnecessarily, but also not too full to increase the washing effect.

Drying clothes in the apartment: how to properly ventilate

If you

want to avoid

mold in your home from

drying clothes

, you need to ventilate properly.

And this does not mean a tilted window, but a burst ventilation several times a day.

As a rule, you should do this three times a day anyway - preferably more often with wet clothes on the drying rack.

Open windows at the opposite ends of the apartment to ensure a draft - also known as "cross-ventilation".

How to exchange the air effectively.

Also interesting

: with these simple tricks you can avoid creases in the laundry.

Hang laundry at a distance

In order for the laundry to dry faster, you should not hang the clothes too close together.

This allows the room air to better circulate between them.

You can also hang up individual pieces to dry on the hanger.

Clothes horse with plenty of space

In order to be able to hang laundry at a greater distance, it is worth using a larger drying rack (promotional link) - for example, by pulling it out.

Let the laundry dry outside in winter

Even if it sounds counterproductive at first: hang your laundry outside when it's freezing.

In fact,

clothes dry

just as well, if not faster,

at temperatures below zero

than in the home.

This is because the laundry freezes at first, but the ice automatically turns into a gaseous state after a while if the air is dry, without becoming liquid again.

So you don't have to worry about getting mold into your house while drying your clothes.

Also read

: Drying clothes: Have you always hung your clothes incorrectly.

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Source: merkur

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