Edit It’s 17:08 now and it still shows 3 minutes
Edit 2 It’s 17:15 now and it has been on 0 minutes for 3 full minutes…
One thing I pride myself on is the ability to see through my dryer’s bullshit. I know that 30 minutes really means 45 you damn liar.
Yeah I should have known, started the thing at 12:26 (actually know this because I called my wife to check if we had 3 hours and 38 minutes before we needed to go), its 17:18 and I just got the door open…
If you haven’t already, clean the dryer vent thoroughly, including the whole exhaust vent leading outside. This should be done at least once a year. Once the vent is clear it should speed up drying, if not it might be the dryer itself and the manual might have solutions.
Here are some guides: https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/how-to-clean-a-dryer-vent/ https://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/home-diy/projects/dryer-vent-cleaning.htm
It took almost 5 hours to the dry the clothes?
It’s a washer and dryer, so it did both
We had one of these combos at an Airbnb I stayed at in Iceland. I’d never seen or used one before and I was flabbergasted to see it took like 4-5 hours to wash and dry the tiniest load of laundry! Not gonna take my big ass washer and dryer for granted anymore haha.
I wish we had the space to have separate machines for washing and drying, it’s a lot better unless if you’re a single guy with minimal amount of clothes to wash.
Even with wife and a toddler it does fine, but you just need to be strategic on what you wash and when
I much prefer hang drying.
- Less wear on the clothes
- Basically no energy cost (technically not correct but it’s really whatever)
- Free humidifying during the dry winters
- Fairly satisfying thing to do while listening to a podcast
The primary downside is that it’s no fun to do it when it rains, neither indoors or outdoors, but as long as you time your laundry well enough, it’s all good.
It’s -11°F where I am today, my family still lives in Jamaica and I envy their ability to hang their clothes so much.
It should be possible to hang your clothes indoors still, I guess. Outdoors as well I’ve been told, when it’s a bit below freezing, but I’ll admit that I’ve never actually tried that.
Nothing like spring/summer outdoor fresh dried laundry
At home I hang most of the clothes, but we where at a short trip and we had some wet towels and swimgear, so de decided to just do one full laundry with most of our wet and dirty clothes. The first duration before I even started the cycle was that it should be done at about 16:10 it was actually done more than an hour later.
Relying on the weather to dry your clothes is a scam. You’re just going to get tricked. I have ADHD so it’s a no go
What does ADHD have to do with this? I’m not sure that I get it.
I can’t remember to do shit because I don’t experience the mental construct of time in the same way as neurotypicals. And even with an alarm, it’s still an extra cognitive load that makes me more likely to mess up everything else. If I forget the clothes on the line for a week, they’ll degrade in the elements and get mildew from the night dew. Inside is a better place for me to forget my clothes. I have less stuff to remember for less time, an alarm is more help to me, and I don’t have to plan for unexpected variables.
The drying machine is a disabled person’s ally.
I see - remembering to bring the laundry inside is the issue.
While there’s nothing wrong with using a dryer - I’m certainly not going to deny you the privilege - perhaps hanging the clothes inside could be a passable workaround for the memory issue? Assuming your indoor environment allows for it, that is.
“Two minutes, Turkish.”
It was two minutes five minutes ago!
I can’t understand the joke. :/
Then the lying whore sings a cheerful little tune after it fucked up my schedule.
Our dryer does this to us:
Put clothes in, start it - it estimates 35 units of time. Come back in 15 minutes to check, it says 15 units left. Come back in 15 minutes, it now says 21 units left.
I am, like all of us, unsure of the fundamental nature of time. But the dryer even more so. The units are not one standard length, and they don’t move always in the same direction.
Time to clean your dryer venting.
And camera lens.
and the microphone.
just in case they couldn’t spy correctly anymore.
I’ve never seen a heat pump dryer with an accurate countdown.
Had me in the first half… they’re up there with drawer style microwaves.
Had the exact same experience the other day. Fuck these machines, fuck printers, fuck microwave ovens, fuck software updates and fuck time estimates in general.
Shouldn’t need to be an estimate. The washer and drier are on timers. Use that as the time indicator.
Most dryers these days should be using a moisture sensor, not a timer.
Most dryers give an estimate of time but use a sensor to judge if the clothes are indeed dry.
My washing machine over-estimates at first, it drops nearly an hour after it gets going. However, it will underestimate later on.
Also, it does this thing where it beeps that it’s starting, doesn’t do anything, then unlocks the door for a few seconds, then locks it again and actually starts. That’s been a life saver for catching that one sock that got left behind and didn’t make it into the drum.
Must be a Welsh machine. I’ll be there now, in a minute.
The labelling is in Dutch, so it’s either a Dutch or a Flemish machine.
It was a joke, since the Welsh say “I’ll do it now, straight away” for immediately, but “Now, in a minute” for I’ll do it, but have no estimate of when it will get done.
to go full circle, it’s a samsung eco bubble of sorts. I have one myself as a dutchy and I think it does time itself based on what’s in there so it’s just an estimation.
Yeah, I have the same machine. it will be saying 1 minute left on the spin cycle for 10 minutes.
My dryer has a couple different presets which all adjust the remaining time dynamically according to a predetermind dryness level. To get around this, I just use the “custom” setting and change the temperature and timer manually.
Kind of like estimations in software development.
Lies. They’re very reliable. You can rely on them to be wrong.
Take whatever timeline you have and double it. Then add 6 more weeks of cram.
estimations in software development are much less reliable IMO
The developers just put their own logic into its estimation software.
The Windows file copy team?
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That’s a fancy dryer.
Mines purely mechanical. Old school timer runs the dryer
I much prefer an estimating timer that reliably dries all the clothes rather than a reliable timer that estimates the clothes are dry.
mine does neither
unreliably estimates how long it will take for my clothes to be unreliably dry
Two common issues, aside from bad design, are clogged dryer vents and temperature sensors covered in fabric softener
Our washer does this too though
It might weigh it before washing, then keep doing the spin cycle until the weight gets close enough to the starting weight
Good shout. Most of the cycles do their best to get rid of excess moisture
We call it “the longest minute” in my house.
