How to Dry Colors When Doing Laundry

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Leslie Moselle and I am from Tampa, Florida. On behalf of Expert Village, this is how to do laundry. The next load we have is our colored clothes. Now we washed them in our cold water and now you want to dry them in the same settings of your white clothes. These two loads really don't have any differences when it comes to drying. You have yuour two options once again. Your automatic dryer on low heat. You could have it on very dry or less dry depending on how wet they are when they are coming out of the washer and we have the timed dry with high heat and you are going to put as much time in it as your want. If you have a larger load, you have up to an hour to have your clothes in there. If you have a smaller load, put it 20 to 25 minutes depending on how long you think that it is going to get dry. Now colored clothes as opposed to white clothes, your one concern is fading so you don't want to have your clothes in the dryer for too long. You have taken all that care to wash them in cold water so that there is not bleeding. You don't to go ahead and negate all of that attention by putting it into the dryer for long periods of time which is going to cause your clothes to fade. When you are washing them over rand over again, that already is enough damage to your clothes. You want to just take that time to look at which setting you think are good for the clothes. If they are every days clothes that really doesn't matter too much, you can put it on the timed drying but you don't want to put your timer on for an hour if it is a small load. This is not only wasting energy but it is just going to do more damage to your colored clothes. So those are the options. You can put it on auto dry or your timer dry but the choice is up to you. "