Meanwhile…
Honestly I think this is awful. Good UX explains the actions without having to use a legend to decipher it.
Triangle is bleach? Circle square is tumble dry?
Not to mention the stupid fucking dots that each have no consistent value
The situation is awful, which makes the guide fantastically useful.
Dry Flat makes sense. As does the Iron symbol. But yeah some of the others aren’t as clear.
Tbf the square could very well be a stylized tumble dryer, and in 90% of the clothes I own the temperatures are indicated by writing instead of dots. Also a normal user wouldn’t need to know about bleach or dry clean.
i wonder if these are aimed more at laundry workers than home consumers, because that is a fair bit to memorize without it being intuitive
[from a mr. lovenstein comic]
“Welcome to the gauntlet” *throws shirt in laundry machine on regular cycle*
Yep, you survive a regular coin laundry washing and drying or not
Alternate guide: just put everything in the washing machine on normal and get rid of anything that doesn’t survive.
Just in case it’s not clear for Americans, those temperatures are in Celsius. But you can pretty much interpret them as one dot low, two dots medium, or three dots high on your machine (double check user manual to be sure). More dots equals higher temperature.
I never use anything but cold, have done so for 30+ years. Never have a problem.
The options hot/cold are not present on washing machines in Europe, and instead you get these temperature gradings, generally they go from 30 °C to 90 °C. All water is collected from the cold water line and then heated inside the washing machine itself.
Since 30 °C is the lowest the machines usually go, we can’t even wash in cold water even if we want to. Kind of a pity.
My washing machine has a wheel to select multiple, heat-specific programs but also has a “cold” switch for other programs. I seldom use the heat specific ones, unless I’m particularly interested in a hot wash.
So I guess that the mileage may vary by country (I’m in Spain) and how old a washing machine is (mine is quite old).
Mine is cold, cold/hot, hot. Actual temp depends on the water heater setting.
That’s really all I do for lights or darks
One dot is 30°C, and extra dots add 10°. Except for the 6th one, that adds 25°. Yes, perfectly clear.
first column, first and fourth symbol mean “do not buy”.
or “do not expect to last very long”
Finally! A rosetta stone for laundry hieroglyphics.
Are there types of dryers that would be classified as machines but not tumble dryers?
Only thing I can think of are the industrial dryers where you put clothes on a hanger and it moves though a large machine blowing hot air.
Thank goodness, I almost washed my favorite shirt at 98 Celsius.
…there are machine dryers that don’t tumble?
My jeans got a new one
Dry in Shade
“Oh you want to dry in shade, you delicate fucking flower? Your mine dwelling ancestors would be so ashamed of you right now. They might even lose their rivets to see their fragile descendants. What’s that? You need some sunscreen? Should I put some moisturizer too while we’re at it?”
Is this much shade enough for those jeans?
Reminds me of this lol
Any versiona that aren’t jpegged to death? Need to print and put by the washer so my wife can still read it.
It would take all of 10 minutes to draw it in a vector program or trace it by hand, and that’s a lot faster than waiting for someone else to use reverse image search for you.
I can’t/won’t read runes.
Yeah, whatever settings the washer and drier came from the factory with seem to be doing me just fine.
