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Electrolux Front Load Washer and Dryer Giveaway
The Holiday celebrations are winding down and the clean-up begins – tablecloths, napkins, bedding for all the extra guests. If your old washer has spun its last load, here’s your chance: Woman’s Day is giving away a Electrolux 27″ Front Load Washer and Large Capacity Dryer set. It’s gentle on the environment and your clothes, [...]
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- Laundry is Moving Up
July 27th, 2009The next generation of laundry has arrived and the status quo is getting a much-needed makeover. New washer and dryer technologies and innovations in detergents and clothing care save time and energy, making laundry feel like less of a chore. Everything in its place Laundry rooms used to be relegated to the basement, but more [...]
- New From Haier: Stackable Washer and Dryer
October 20th, 2008For those folks short on space and loaded with laundry, Haier has introduced a washer dryer pair with the option to stack. The standard 24-in wide by 24-in deep HBF1055TVE washer offers a 1000 rpm spin speed and can be stacked with the HDY6-1 electric dryer to create one unit that can be stacked in [...]
- Electrolux to Give Portion of Profits to Cancer Research
September 3rd, 2008September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and to help raise awareness, Electrolux, leading is teaming up with Kelly Ripa to launch its premium laundry collection in North America. At the centerpiece of the new collection is a front-loading washer and dryer in “Turquoise Sky,” inspired by the brightly-hued ribbon that is the nationally recognized symbol [...]
- How to Save Money Buying a New Appliance
May 22nd, 2008Buying a new appliance is expensive and everyone wants to get a good value for their money. Sometimes getting less can be more. According to Consumer Reports, some of the extra features offered on new washers and dishwashers are not needed and just add unnecessarily to the final cost. Take new dishwasher cycles with names like [...]
- Basic Appliance Care and Safety
May 14th, 2008If you are lucky, you rarely need to pay much attention to the appliances that run, some of them 24 hours a day, in your home. But to keep everything trouble free, it’s good to follow some basic guidelines for care and safety when using or installing appliances in your home. Handymanclub.com offers some simples [...]
- Fisher & Paykel is Moving to Mexico
May 2nd, 2008Fisher & Paykel, the New Zealand appliance manufacturer well known for it’s dishwasher drawers and washing machines is consolidating it’s manufacturing and moving to Reynosa, Mexico, just south of the U.S. border. The range and DishDrawer factory in Dunedin, New Zealand, the refrigeration plant in Brisbane, Australia and the DCS manufacturing plant in Huntington Beach [...]
- Staber’s New Electric Clothes Drying Cabinet
May 1st, 2008Staber, an American manufacturer and online retailer of washers and dryers offers a new clothes drying cabinet as an addition to your laundry room equipment. Although drying cabinets have been used in Europe for years, many Americans are not familiar with them. They are in a simple form a box in which clothes can be [...]
- Whirlpool Earns Third Energy Star Award
April 5th, 2008Whirlpool Corp. has been recognized with its third consecutive ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence award. Provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the award honors Whirlpool Corp.’s contribution to providing innovative efficient products that help consumers reduce utility bills and greenhouse gas emissions. Whirlpool will accept the award [...]
- Is Your Clothes Dryer Working Effectively?
March 22nd, 2008We invest a lot of money in our clothes and want them to last and look good. Over-drying and over heating clothes wears them out faster. If your dryer is working effectively, you can dry more quickly, sometimes at lower temperatures. If preserving your clothes, possibly preventing wrinkles and saving energy sounds good to you, [...]
- Sears Unveils Kenmore Elite Oasis Washer and Dryer
March 11th, 2008Laundry Pair Combines High Efficiency with Deep Clean Functionality and SteamCare Technology Kenmore Elite’s SteamCare technology, harnesses the power of steam by saturating dry clothing with a fine mist of water while simultaneously heating the interior of the appliance. The water and heat work together to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and odors, so consumers [...]
- Drying with Liquid? A New Twist on the Clothes Dryer
March 7th, 2008For the most part, clothes drying technology hasn’t changed in over 70 years, but the people at Hydromatic Technologies have a new plan. They don’t make dryers, but at the 2008 International Builders’ Show, they debuted a new technology – Hydronics- that could make future dryers better. Hydronics is the utilization of water or other [...]
- Is the Washer Eating Your Socks? -Missing Socks Form One of Life’s Little Mysteries
January 31st, 2008By Gary Dymski Newsday Two socks enter the washer. Two socks exit the dryer. As household tasks go, what could be simpler? A pair of socks goes from drawer to feet to dirty clothes to washer and dryer and back into the drawer. Of course, anyone associated with a social group that faintly resembles a [...]
