Why do you all have dryers tho? Seems a huge hassle to keep track of to avoid not burning down your shit. Doesn’t it also reduce the lifetime of clothing?
I just throw my laundry vaguely on a drying rack and be done with it. Works just fine
There are six people living in my house. I would need to build out another room just to make hanging space for everyone’s wet clothes on laundry day. And in winter I would need an HVAC system to manage the moisture in the air and avoid growing mold on the walls.
Both are a massive risk if not maintained regularly. One literally uses a live flame vs a heat element, and you want to say the latter is a higher risk?
Modern HVAC systems also use hearing elements or heat pumps. But a live flame is not that dangerous if it has no chance of falling over and it’s kept in a dust free environment. At least in my country most does are caused by 1) open hearth fires 2) malfunctioning electrical appliances, with dryers being the most common appliance to cause a fire
Not if you use an air-source heat pump, but there’s also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_source_heat_pump and electricity from renewable sources like wind turbines are used more and more in many parts of the world. Over here new houses don’t use gas anymore, just electricity. Though temperatures usually don’t reach -30 here.
Gas will always be needed, only way to heat at night, and what about during winter when there only 6 hours of sunlight?
Your link also talks about why geothermal isn’t good for single homes, it’s incredibly inefficient to drill thousands of holes for one community. There’s a host of other issues too.
I have one because I live in the Pacific northwest rainforest and we get a lot of rain here. Plus, I really hate how humid the house gets if you line dry indoors. I guess it’s much more heavily used in the us.
Seems like more work than shoving my clothes in a dryer and spending 2 seconds taking lint off a grate. I have adhd and there’s a lot of household tasks I have trouble keeping track of, that’s not one of them.
That works depending on the climate where you live and the amount of laundry your household produces. Usually it’s beter to dry laundry outside, but in climates where it can rain a lot that may not be an option in every season.
Why do you all have dryers tho? Seems a huge hassle to keep track of to avoid not burning down your shit. Doesn’t it also reduce the lifetime of clothing?
I just throw my laundry vaguely on a drying rack and be done with it. Works just fine
The drying rack is way better for your clothes, but I live in western Washington so the dryer is pretty necessary for about half the year.
Dehumidifiers exist if high humidity is the problem.
Most dryers have an easily removable filter just under the door that you clean after every use. No hassle at all as long as you know it’s there.
There are six people living in my house. I would need to build out another room just to make hanging space for everyone’s wet clothes on laundry day. And in winter I would need an HVAC system to manage the moisture in the air and avoid growing mold on the walls.
Heat pump or dehumidifier and a lot of hanging space, spacing out laundry loads. Works fine. Yes it takes space.
HVAC is still less of a fire risk than a dryer though.
Both are a massive risk if not maintained regularly. One literally uses a live flame vs a heat element, and you want to say the latter is a higher risk?
Modern HVAC systems also use hearing elements or heat pumps. But a live flame is not that dangerous if it has no chance of falling over and it’s kept in a dust free environment. At least in my country most does are caused by 1) open hearth fires 2) malfunctioning electrical appliances, with dryers being the most common appliance to cause a fire
No they don’t, to heat a whole house with electricity is incredibly inefficient. And a heat pump in -30 isn’t gonna work that well.
Not if you use an air-source heat pump, but there’s also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_source_heat_pump and electricity from renewable sources like wind turbines are used more and more in many parts of the world. Over here new houses don’t use gas anymore, just electricity. Though temperatures usually don’t reach -30 here.
Scale and location. Those don’t work everywhere.
Gas will always be needed, only way to heat at night, and what about during winter when there only 6 hours of sunlight?
Your link also talks about why geothermal isn’t good for single homes, it’s incredibly inefficient to drill thousands of holes for one community. There’s a host of other issues too.
Thats just bullshit. There’s wind turbines, hydro power, geothermal power, nuclear reactors, batteries and hydrogen powercells.
lol my dryer uses flame
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Not sure why the downvote—it’s a natural gas clothes dryer…
I have one because I live in the Pacific northwest rainforest and we get a lot of rain here. Plus, I really hate how humid the house gets if you line dry indoors. I guess it’s much more heavily used in the us.
Seems like more work than shoving my clothes in a dryer and spending 2 seconds taking lint off a grate. I have adhd and there’s a lot of household tasks I have trouble keeping track of, that’s not one of them.
That works depending on the climate where you live and the amount of laundry your household produces. Usually it’s beter to dry laundry outside, but in climates where it can rain a lot that may not be an option in every season.
Agreed. There are also climates where it snows a large portion the year. Winter would get awfully stinky if I couldn’t handle all my laundry indoors.
I compromise and rack-dry my nicer t-shirts, but machine-dry everything else.
Clothes go from loud rolling box A to loud rolling box B and are done before loud rolling box A is finished with the next load.