Use a Spin Dryer for a Genuine Heatless Option

Written by:  • Edited by: Donna Cosmato
Updated Jun 25, 2011
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The electric and the gas clothes dryers are both greedy energy eaters. Most of the energy that they use goes into heating the air that dries your clothing. But, what if you did not need all of that heat to dry your clothes? What if it you could side step using a dryer all together?

The Laundy Alternative Inc. Spin Dryer
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How do you side step using an energy hungry clothes dryer without needing to hang your wet clothes out on the line? The spin dryer makes this very possible. A spin dryer doesn't heat up your clothes at all. It simply spins. And, it spins very fast - up to 3200 revolutions per minute (rpm) to be exact. At this great speed, a spin dryer will extract six times as much water from your laundry as a washing machine spin cycle can extract.

Wet laundry becomes almost completely dry in the three minutes that a spin dryer takes to spin it. The minerals that are in the water are extracted too, along with any traces of detergents and soaps that might remain in the water as well. So your laundry comes out of a spin dryer even cleaner than when you put it in! In a gas or electric clothes dryer these minerals and soap traces would have been baked on. In a spin drier they are mostly removed.

And, last but not least, your clothing does not need to be subjected to fourty minutes or more of tumbling. As fun as that may sound, your laundry is gradually exhausted by this experience. In time, this tumbling and all the heat that accompanies it wears your clothes out much faster than they would have worn out otherwise. Here is yet one more example of how hidden wastes can be eliminated by employing more appropriate technologies than are currently used to address your day to day needs.

Two models of the Laundry Alternative Inc. Spin Dryers are available:

Spin Dryer

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The Laundry Alternative Inc. Spin Dryer is a compact portable laundry spinner which is only two feet tall and weighs only 22 lbs.

  • works in only just 2 - 3 minutes
  • 3200 rpm spin
  • Takes 12.2 lb of wet laundry
  • Cuts conventional drying time down by 30 minutes or more
  • Clothes can finish drying by hanging on hangers just as easily
  • Uses any standard 110V electrical outlet
  • Portable

At $134.00 dollars the Laundry Alternative Inc. Spin Dryer will pay for itself inside of a year. After that the savings on energy are all yours and so are the savings on the wear and tear on your clothes. - Purchase a spin Dryer online

Mini Countertop Spin Dryer

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This Spin Dryer is only fifteen inches tall, and weighs under fourteen pounds.

  • works in only 2-3 minutes
  • 1600 rpm spin speed
  • takes 5 - 6 lb of wet laundry (eg. two pairs of jeans)
  • Very quite
  • Uses any standard 110V electrical outlet
  • 82 Watts

If you are looking for an inexpensive but effective means of getting a lot more moisture out of your clothes than you ever have been able, the Mini Countertop Spin Dryer at $69.95 is a great deal. It can not extract as much water from the laundry as its faster big sister, the regular Spin Dryer. But, when you compare its 1600 rpm spin speed with the regular 400-800 maximum rpm of an upright washer, even one of the better upright washers, the benefits are clear. Both the Spin Dryer and the Mini Countertop Spin Dryer can serve very nicely as portable dryers.

click on the link to order one online Mini Countertop Spin Dryer


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Washers and Dryers Feb 8, 2012 10:05 PM
RE: Use a Spin Dryer for a Genuine Heatless Option
This is nice post. It give a little advice how to use a Mini Counter top Spin Dryer. It's just from washing machines to clean and wet clothes. Make sure the clothes distribution, to minimise the imbalance.
mark Nov 21, 2010 7:16 PM
Spin Dryer
Do you ship to Canada?
if so how much
Elinore Brown Jun 10, 2010 4:31 PM
mini counter top spin dryer
for many years I had a "debonair" spin dryer(am not sure of the spelling) about 50 years ago.I had a wringer washer and would take the clothes after putting them through the wringer and the amount of water that came out was unbelievable.This of course lowered the drying time by hours.Now that I am in a retirement home,I would save myself a lot of money if I could spin my clothes .My towels and bedding are done for me but I like to do my own personal things by hand
Would someone inform me please if there is a place in Vancouver,B.C. where I could buy one.
Thank you for listening.
Elinore Brown
taleed May 6, 2010 5:31 PM
RE: Use a Spin Dryer for a Genuine Heatless Option
kindly to send me full contacts information for orders inquiry and international orders to Canada !
taleed
Jesse Jul 8, 2009 11:27 AM
Love my laundry spinner!
I bought the Laundry Alternative spinner above (the larger one) and I am loving it! Where I live, it is often too humid to dry clothes outdoors, and I hate using the electric dryer so much. There are four adults sharing one washer and dryer in our house, so it always seemed like I was waiting for someone else's clothes to dry before I could finish my own laundry. After using the spinner, the previous batch is dry before the washing machine finishes the next load! Even jeans and towels try very quickly.

When the humidity is down, I will hang the clothes on the rack on my deck. They dry very quickly in the sun after going through the spinner.

I am the type who likes to wait and do a very full load each time. It takes two runs in the spinner to do a large load -- about five minutes each. However, this cuts more than 30 minutes off the time the clothes need to spend in the dryer. The spinner uses a fraction of the electricity, so I know I'm saving a lot on the electric bill.

Also, clothes really seem to come out softer. I decided to use my TDS meter (total dissolved solids) and see what was coming out. My water has about 145 PPM total dissolved solids, and the water that came out of my clothes in the spinner was over 210 PPM! I don't use fabric softener in the wash, so that was all detergent that was left in the clothes (obvious from the suds in the water). This has got to be good for the clothes, since these solids would just dry into the clothes in the electric dryer.

I really can't express how happy we all are with the Laundry Alternative spin dryer. I don't know how long it will last, but if I have to replace it every year it will be worth it!
 
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