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Laundry Hints and Help

by MyrrhHector

Keep your laundry pile under control.

Luandry is an often-hated but always necessary household chore. Make your work easier with these helpful hints, and learn how to set up your laundry for maximum efficiency. Even a small laundry room can become a pleasant laundry nook with the right storage and use of space.

Laundry Basics

Fighting Stains

  • How to Sterilize Laundry

    Sterilization of laundry ensures that 99.9 percent of fungus, bacteria or viruses are eradicated from laundry items. While other methods of sterilization exist such as Read More

  • How to Use Alcohol to Remove Stains on Clothes

    Stains no longer spell the end of your favorite clothes. Most stains can be treated with a homemade stain remover—the very same rubbing alcohol that you probably keep Read More

  • How to Fix a Stained T-Shirt

    Even a small stain can ruin a perfectly good T-shirt. Fortunately, most stains can be removed with the right solvent and a little elbow grease. The key to removing stains Read More

  • How to Remove Cranberry Stains

    Cranberry stains can be one of the hardest stains to remove. There are various remedies for removing cranberry stains. These instructions have been proven to work, and by Read More

  • How to get Stains out of Clothes

    Stains in clothing are frustrating and often expensive to remove. Successful stain removal hinges on the origin of the stain, the fabric the clothes are made of and how Read More

  • Grape Juice Stain Removal

    Grape juice stain won't come off? Here are some simple tips to help you get those tough stains off. Read More

  • How to Remove Oily Stains

    Oily stains are some of the most difficult kinds of stains to remove from fabric or carpet. Because these tough stains can ruin a fabric it is important to treat the stain Read More

  • How to Remove Detergent Stains

    The very thing you use to get your clothes clean and stain-free may actually be leaving stains on your clothes. Detergent stains are usually blue or white and are most Read More

  • How to Remove Hard Stains

    Hard stains are the nightmare of every household. No matter how much you try to avoid these stains, they inevitably blemish clothes. Once your favorite clothes are stained Read More

  • How to Get Tomato Stains Out of Clothes

    Tomato stains, like wine and similar food and drink stains, are notoriously difficult to remove from fabrics if the stain has already set. Quick action can save you a lot Read More

Designing Your Laundry Room

  • About Laundry Chutes

    A laundry chute is usually a square or rectangular tunnel that connects a top floor with the laundry room in the basement. People can place their dirty laundry into the Read More

  • How to Organize Your Laundry Center

    Organizing a laundry center by using all available cabinets for laundry items, installing a bar to hang damp shirts and having laundry baskets available. Organize a laundry Read More

  • How to Make a PVC Laundry Sorter

    A laundry sorter is a container with different compartments to hold various types of clothes before doing laundry. This sorter has three compartments. You can make it Read More

  • How to Decorate a Laundry Room

    A well-decorated laundry room can make the task of doing laundry less monotonous. Turn an uninviting laundry room into an appealing part of the home by creating a space Read More

  • How to Buy a Laundry Hamper

    Laundry can pile up unbelievably fast. That's why most of us use a laundry hamper. The type of laundry hamper you buy depends upon where it will be placed and how you get Read More

  • Decorating a Laundry Room

    When you think of a laundry room, do you see a place that is an endless reminder of washing and folding clothes? By decorating your laundry room you can make doing the Read More

  • How to Make a Laundry Cabinet

    Here is a neat idea for a laundry cabinet made from an old TV entertainment center. If you have upgraded to a flat screen TV, don't toss that entertainment center to the Read More

  • How to Make a Laundry Basket Liner

    Make a laundry basket liner for your college bound teen or as a way to keep your own laundry basket clean and fresh. A laundry basket liner works like a bag that can be Read More

  • How to Create More Storage Space in a Laundry Room

    For many families, the laundry room is the hub of the household. They spend a lot of time doing laundry, and the room seems to be a catch-all for just about everything Read More

  • How to Build a Laundry Room

    Building a better laundry room is a challenge, and the right design can depend upon the space available and your laundry needs. All laundry rooms should accommodate your Read More

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