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How to economically operate a dryer, making it as efficient as possible in order to decrease your dryer operating cost.

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These days, it pays in a variety of ways to conserve energy.  While there are relatively new ways to save energy and, thus, save on operating costs, like switching from regular light bulbs to fluorescent lights, an immediate action you can take right now without having to invest in a new product to conserve is to take advantage of your dryer's initial generation of heat from the first load of clothes drying by not waiting a substantial time after the first load before you put in a second load of clothes to be dried; waiting to the point the dryer cools down after the first load will require the dryer to use more energy, and thus cause you to incur more money, for another load of clothes to be dried than would otherwise be the case if you did not wait for your dryer to cool down.  It really does make a difference to immediately put in another load of clothes that need to be dried right after the first load because the first load's heat can then be used to help heat the second load without as much consumption of energy as it took to get the first load of clothes dried.

So, without much effort, one can find ways to conserve energy and costs, and even with something as simple as efficiently using the generated heat of a previous load of clothes to help generate the necessary heat for the successive drying of another load of clothes.

Ed the Handyman

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Your Handyman Zone Team

 

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