To think my friend should not use her tumble dryer on lovely warm dry days.

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My friend is lovely, she's supportive, considerate and fun to be around, but one thing that I cannot agree with is the fact that she uses her tumble dryer 365 days a year.

It's on most of the day. She says she uses it to cut down on ironing. I have tried to pursuade her to hang it outside on many occasions but she just laughs it off. I think the more I mention it the more she digs her heels in.

I know it's none of my business but it bugs me, that she can be so ignorant about it.

Would it annoy anyone else, or is the problem mine?

Ok here's a whole report about dishwashers vs handwashing. here

I personally wouldn't use the same sink full of water for all of the crockery etc that my dishwasher holds. (and I wouldn't save up that volume of stuff over a day or more ready to handwash)

okay expat, no iron, fair play. One or the other I suppose....

What gets me is when people rinse their dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. What the???!!!!
I have had the use of a dishwasher, in my last rented flat, so do know how they work(!), but seriously, rinse them first? Why not wash the bloody things in the first place by hand????

Have only skim-read a bit of it but basically dishwashers definitely use less water (because you are comparing the water you use for washing just one meal, whereas a dishwasher takes far more dishes. Ours is on every two days, so that's 6 meals for 4.)

BUT if you have a gas-boiler it seems they are more efficient at heating the water than electricity so you win on that count.

We have electrically-heated water so it's all the same.

So now, convince me tumble dryers aren't that bad, sometimes I would like one eg last August when my clothes took 3 days to dry indoors...

But I dry all my clothes indoors. I will admit I have a particularly large, useful attic to have mountains and mountains of the stuff drying all the time, which many people won't have the luxury of, so again, fair enough.
I can't comment, or disagree, in the slightest about the sun bleaching clothes. Never dried anything outside before, have no idea.

We all have our little quirks don't we?

Anyone remember the everlasting thread a few months back about rinsing dishes after washing up!? Wow, some people had a lot to say about that (from both camps)

7.1 THere is still not a strong case to use a dishwasher to save energy

9 However, claims that dishwashers are more energy efficient are sometimes made and have no foundation

Missed that one onepiece, seems like I would have enjoyed that particular inane argument

bergentulip it went on for what seemed forever. It was obviously of massive significance to some of us..

Ok Gobbledigook. But as my DH and all his family run litres of water (wash under a running tap) I'll still stick with the dishwasher thank you, on water-saving costs, if not energy.

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Actually, my DH washes the dishes under running water, cold dribbling running water, and it not only ends up wasting god knows how much energy (boiler desperately trying to get enough pressure from the tap to heat the water up!) and then ends up almost dirtier than when he started , that I insist that I do all the washing up all the time!!
Now, for that reason alone we should buy ourselves a dishwasher!

Anyone who uses radiators to dry their clothes is no greener than those who use a tumble dryer.

You still have to provide the heating to evaporate the water from the clothes.

Having a dryer on most of the time 365 days of the year is a gross exaggeration. We are a family of 8, and the dryer is on no more than 3 days a week (we don't line dry at all).

Sorry that is a link to this thread will try again.

unless of course the heating would already have been on because it is cold

Mine has been on most of the day - until the door fell off

well, re the denim, yes I have, but I do not have sensitive skin, so am lucky I guess. As said, I don't dry outside, but, again, am lucky enough to have the space to dry indoors.
I do sometimes wish I had something to soften a fresh towel though. That can scratch a bit(!)

Erm, am wearing some now Califrau !

Very thenthitive here too. I suppose because I have never tried tumble-dried towels and denim I don't know what I'm missing.

here it is

The way we are going on this thread we will easily reach a pathetic 250 posts!

Well it was sunny when my neighbour hung out her washing and went out today....she came back to a line full of sodden wet clothes due to sudden pishing it down with rain...and will probably have to re-wash them....so, on balance, my tumble tried lot probably used less electricity and has a smaller carbon footprint than hers...

I never line dry and nor do any of my friends. It would never even occur to me! But we rarely iron apart from dh's work shirts, so get brownie points there.