How do you sort your clothes when using a dryer?

[theneverendinglaundry]

Curious how others use their dryer for clothing laundry as I'm new to the world of dryers.

I wash by colour, and am thinking I should sort by fabric?

Cottons and thicker fabrics on the cotton cupboard dry setting

Polyesters and lighter garments on the synthetics cupboard dry setting

Is that right?

Obviously bras and delicates will be air dried

Sort according to wash load then just pull out woollen items, anything with Lycra, lace or tulle, clothes with printed decals and anything else with a no tumble dry symbol on. Everything else goes in the dryer. I have two settings, cool and hot, and usually use the hot setting.

I take out things that I can air dry like leggings and dh tops. Then I just dry rest on low heat.

Thanks all.

I managed to do a clothes wash yesterday and dont think anything shrank! I just put it all on a synthetic cupboard dry setting.

We don't own many items that are delicate but I will air dry bras and DHs shirts I think.

I was putting everything on cupboard dry until I realised none of my son's brand new clothes fitted him any more...

Now everything goes on 'gentle care'. Takes longer but never in a rush for it anyway, and I dont have the patience to be sorting it!

if you can be bothered, you can put delicates and socks in those net laundry bags.

To save energy, you can put shirts on hangers and let them mostly dry in the room, then finish off in the drier to leave them fairly free of creases. If you are lucky enough to have a heat-pump drier, they use much less electricity so I'd use it for everything.

If you have to dry clothes indoors, hang them in a room with an extractor fan that works, such as the bathroom, to suck the damp our of the house.

Shrinking things air dry all else shoved in on high.
All air-dry in summer,only use the tumble drier in winter or the summer of 2012.