Setting the Temperature for Washing Clothes

Video Transcript

"Hi there. Welcome to the wonderful world of washing clothes. Today we're talking about washing everything that is color. Moving on to the washing machine and selecting what temperature your clothes need to washed at. Now a good way to find this out, grab your clothes again, you're going to read your tags and figure out how they need to be washed. So after we read the tag, its really important to read and you can do this beforehand, read and sort. You find out for instance, this one is warm clothes and its kind of a cotton spandex so you can wash it in warm and you can not be afraid that its going to shrink. Some other clothes like if you're going to wash a hundred percent cotton, also that is going to go in cold water because cotton does tend to shrink. It seems that jeans are the same way. You wash them in cold water. Something like delicates, put it on the delicate cycle and that's also going to be in warm water. Hot water is really great when you're doing things like towels, things you want to get mold and mildew and bacteria out of. But in any case, once you've sorted for hot, warm or cold, you want to look at the dial or the buttons on your machine. Get acquainted with that machine. If you're in a laundry mat, probably might be a new machine, so make sure you know where the dials are and you're going to set the dial to the required temperature. You're going to do all your colds then set it over here to cold or warm or hot. Now, after each load, its really important to look at that dial again and set it again. Its hard to know if you're kind of in a hurry, jumping in and out, but you don't want to put something in that's going to shrink. You don't want that cotton to be on a really high hot and then it shrinks down to nothing. So make sure you look at your Laundromat or you look at your own machine and you switch that back. We want to preserve the length of our clothes, we want to preserve the brightness of our clothes so what we want to do is we want to go ahead and use that dial and don't just throw everything in and do it all at once. So now if you really don't know what temperature your clothes need to be at, my default is always on cold, so set it on cold. That way nothing will be shrunk and that's really what you're trying to avoid here. You want to keep your colors bright. I even do my laundry on this in a lingerie bag and throw it in that way to protect all my little delicates, but you can do it always on cold. Most important thing is to really look at your clothes, separate them by how they need to be washed, look at your machine and make sure that it matches up and we want preservation of your clothes and this is how you're going to attain it."