PAGE 14-1 Plan G E Home Laundry For Greatest Efficiency Before calling on the experts, plan the initial stage of your total electric laundry center yourself. Ac- cording to the Live Better Electri- cally Program of the Edison Elec- tric Institute, the arrangements in your home laundry center should revolve around your particular work patterns to providemaximum working efficiency. Personal preferences also govern the selection of laundry appliances. There are literally dozens of models to choose from but only you can determine what shape or automatic features of these various appliances meet your particular requirements and situation. Laundry Planning Just how small or big you plan your laundry room will be deter- mined by the amount of space you can afford to devote to it. Some laundry areas may only be big “enough to accommodate an electric washer and dryer, others will have “space for your electric water heater, a sink, storage closets, folding and sorting areas, facilities for ironing and mending, as well as desk space for home planning. But big or small, electric appliances aregoing to make planning your room a lot easier. To start you off Live Better Elec- trically offers the following recom- mendations for the home grown stage of your total electric laundry plan. Proper Placement Electric appliances will fit just about anywhere you want to put them but, because water may re- main in valves or pump, your washer should not be installed in an area where it might be subjected to temperatures below freezing. Full Housepower Wiring: Your automatic washer should have its own 110/115 volt circuit outlet. Depending on the model, a dryer will require a 115/ 120 volt or 230/240 volt appliance outlet. If your laundry area is spac- ious you may want to usean appli- “ance center, such as-you have in your kitchen, to plug in your iron, sewing machine or coffee percula- tor. Sufficient outlets should also be provided to operate lights or an Modern Laundry Automatic Washers-Dryers-Iron- ers make family laundry easy to- day. But this equipment must be used as it was meant to be, with: 1. good judgment 2. an understanding of how it works 3. how to take care of it Just a few years ago wehad fewer fabrics and fewer wash-day aids. Today we have a multitude of dif- ferent fabrics and many choices of detergents, water softeners, blue- ings, bleaches, fabric softeners — and every day we see new ones. These are all good, but in order to use them we must know what they are for, and when to putthem inthe wash. We must also know that each new fabric needs its own recipe. If we mix everything together, if we wash our woolens and cottons and nylons together, and toss in soap, detergent, bleach and anything else we can find, we’ll make a “Witches Brew’ and ruin the clothes. electric clock. If you plan to locate the water heater in thelaundry, this appliance should also have its own 230/240 volt appliance outlet. Convenient Arrangement Arrangements: For convenience, the electric dryer should be placed as near to the washer as possible; preferably they should stand side by side. Appliance doors should not interfere with the entrances and passage ways of the laundry area. Measure Them Size: Total electric appliances vary somewhat in size. Space for the appliance should be carefully mapped out and measured. Then do some comparison shopping to find the model that best suits your needs. Once your plan is completed and installed, you will be able to waltz through washday the electric way. For only electricity will perform all of your washday chores. Electric Dryers Reduce Maintenance Costs Thrifty homemakers turn thumbs down on complicated appliances which require frequent service calls to keep them in working order. They find that appliances with simple parts provide reliable ope- ration with a minimum of main- tenance expense. Thanks to the simplicity of the precision-made heating unit in elec- tric clothes dryers, owners are as- sured years of trouble-free opera- tion, according to the Live Better Electrically Program of the Edison Electric Institute. The unit consists of a single part instead of a number of parts which can easily get out of adjustment during normal usage. In operation it is as clean as an electric light. Besides being economical to maintain, electric clothes dryers are less expensive to purchaseinitially. They are also easy on the home- maker’s budget because they re- quire no costly installation of flues or vents. Clothes Dryer Makes A ‘Pressing’ Machine Its wash-and-wear cycle makes the automatic dryer a ‘‘pressing”’ machine for non-washable gar- ments such as dresses, slacks and men’s suits, which are of appropri- ate synthetics or blends. When the garments are tumbled at 160°, unwanted wear wrinkles are removed, but the desired shape and creases are unaffected. An extra-long cool down tumble pre- vents rewrinkling. If the garments are removed to hangers as soonas the tumbling stops, they should look as though they had just been pressed. SMALL BASKET fits over agitator post of General Electric washer to wash delicate things. Electric Clothes Dryers Are Purchase of an electric clothes dryer is another step toward the joy of total electric living, accord- ing to the Live Better Electrically Program of Edison Electric Insti- tute. With the new dryer to bring clothes drying from the dust and dirt of the back yard to the inside comfort and convenience of the home, Mrs. Homemaker can really waltz through washday. No longer is it necessary on washday for homemakers to sub- ject themselves and thefamily wash to the wear and tear of weather. Electric drying — better than sun- shine —is truly an all-weather con- venience, and unlike the weather, it is kind to fabrics and colors. With electric drying, clothes stay as clean as when they were taken from the washer. They don’t pick up new dust and dirt while they are drying. Since electric drying is fast, clothes can be ready for the family to wear again in minutes instead of the hours required by the old- fashioned clothesline method. In addition, clothing and linens dry with a minimum of wrinkles to make ironing easier. The Live Better Electrically Pro- gram reports that almost a million American families, attracted by convenience, ease of installation and low purchase, operation and maintenance costs, purchased elec- tric dryers during the past year. They are discovering for them- selves that washday with a dryer - really is a cinch. In the General Electric High Speed Drying System room air en- ters the dryer from the front and is then warmed, entering the clothes basket from the back. Fastmoving Vr Ee Sh Sy AE Better Than Sunshine currents of properly warmed air flow through the tumbling clothes, drying them quickly and naturally. Air laden with moisture and lint is carried through the trap depositing lint and is then exhausted at the rear. Clothes are never baked against a hot clothes basket or ex- posed to direct heatfrom open heat- ing elements. Select drying times according to fabric requirements. For example, dial setting for family cottons is 40-50 minutes . . . for sheer gar- ments and synthetics, setting is 15 to 20 minutes. Also, clothes can be damp-dried — ready for ironing, or dried completely. You can operate this General Electric Dryer on either a regular household 110-volt circuit or a stahdard 220-volt circuit. Drying times are longer when operated on 110 volts. JR Steels Prove Valuable in Vital Parts Automatic washers and dryers now perform more operations — better, faster and with less attention — than ever before. With durability and reliability also increased, there can be little doubt that the new ap- pliances are the best values pro- duced by the home laundry industry. In one area alone — reliability — automatic washers have been im- proved 50 per cent in the past three years, as demonstrated by the re- duction of service calls on washers while they are still in the warranty period. One of the reasons why these ap- pliances can be depended on for years of troublefree service is that they are largely made of steel. Porcelain-enameled steel, for in- stance, helps washers and dryers keep their good looks over their long lives. It resists scratching and is immune to moststaining and dis- coloration. And, it wipes clean with a damp cloth. Stainless steel is used in trim, controls and in such places subject to heat and abrasion as washer tubs and dryer drums. Before a manufacturer puts an appliance on sale it must pass a product reliability test that is far more severe than any it is likely to encounter in actual use. A typical 15-year extended life test assumes that a washer will beused 600 times a year for a total of 400 hours. This adds up to 6,000 hours over 15 years. In the test the washer is figured on being used 11'. times a week. Current surveys indicate that washers are used an average of 7 times a week. ENJoV EVERY WRSH-DAY THE AVTOMATIC ALL ELECTRIC WAY << Why An Electric Heater Is Your Best If you've wondered in winters past why you were continually run- ning out of hot water, or why your whole house heating bills were so high, take a good look at your present water heating system. If it’s like one of these inadequate or old-fashioned systems we bring to your attention here, then morethan likely your hard earned money has been going up in smoke. Read this article carefully, noting the many ways you can live better with a completely automatic and worry-free electric water heater. It’s as safe as electric light, and you’ll like the low electric water heating rate. If you are now HEATING WATER WITH A FURNACE COIL, you’ll be interested to know that tests made by leading univer- sities and independent laboratories show that as much as 20%of the coal you burn goes to heat the water. This means that one-fifth of your winter fuel bill is the cost of heating water. HOW THIS SYS- TEM WORKS: the furnace coil isa pipe running through the firebox of your furnace. Water passing through the coil is heated and stored Buy in the tank to be drawn as your family needs it. Many people wrongly believe that so long as the furnace is being used for home heating, a furnace will give freehot water. Actually, whatever heat is absorbed by the coil is lost to your general house heating and is re flected in the increased size of your heating bill. . WITH AN ELECTRIC WATER HEATER you have plenty of hot water automatically all year ’round. The low electric rate for water heating, the all-around tank insulation and short pipe runs pos- sible combine to make electric water heating so economical. And you get trouble-free, no-maintenance ser- vice. 14 er cS ~~ A pm— -—
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