Can I haz clothes dryer?
Why yes, I can.
The dryer function in our five-year-old Ariston unit died last spring. I’ve been resisting buying a standalone dryer ever since, largely because it’s been sunny enough of the time to use the washing line, though also through simple procrastination.
In any event, winter looms. The weather is getting darker and wetter, and opportunities to dry clothes on the line are becoming few and far between. So early this week I finally gave in and ordered a Fisher & Paykel unit. It arrived yesterday, and has been working Just Fine taking care of our backlog since.
Unlike the older-style dryers I’m used to this thing doesn’t leave clothes horribly wrinkled. It also doesn’t take hours to get the job done. The latter is almost certainly helped by the washer being a front-load unit that doesn’t leave clothes dripping wet at the end of the wash.
I do still feel a little uneasy about using a dryer again — I was enjoying hanging clothes on the line, and it made me feel just a little bit virtuous — but the alternative when it’s raining is no clean clothes. Not a great look work-wise. So.
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Fisher & Paykel make household appliances!?
Crazy — I only know them as the manufacturer of a special kind of oxygen delivery device for premature infants (http://www.fphcare.com/).
Who knew.
No idea they did medical kit, they’re very very well known in this part of the world for appliances!