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With all the home improvement shows on cable TV, it is time the McCarty Metro offers you tips from our readers on making life a little easier around your home. This month, we will talk about the laundry. The Washer & Dryer. We also have a bonus washer on this page. Please participate and submit your home improvement ideas on the form below.

I had a wonderful morning, the heating unit went out on my dryer! Why does everything seem to fall apart this time of year? The guy that fixes things went in to the dryer pulled out the lint filter. It was clean. We always clean the lint from the filter after every load of clothes. He told us that he wanted to show us something.

He took the filter over to the sink, ran hot water over
it. Now, the lint filter is made of a mesh material - I'm sure you know what your dryer's lint filter looks like. WELL......the hot water just sat on top of the mesh!!! It didn't go through it at all!!!

He told us that dryer sheets cause a film over that mesh that's what burns out the heating unit. You can't SEE the film, but it's there. This is also what causes dryer units to catch fire potentially burn your house down with it! He said the best way to keep your dryer working for a very long time (& to keep your electric bill lower) is to take that filter out & wash it with hot soapy water and an old toothbrush (or other brush) at least every six months. He said that makes the life of the dryer at least twice as long! How about that???!!!! Learn something new everyday! I certainly didn't know dryer sheets would do that. So, I thought I'd share! Note: I went to my dryer & tested my screen by running water on it. The water ran thru a little bit but mostly collected all the water in the mesh screen. I washed it with warm soapy water & a nylon brush & I had it done in 30 seconds. Then when I rinsed it the water ran right thru the screen! There wasn't any puddling at all! That repairman knew what he was talking about! 

PLEASE PASS THIS INFO ON TO OTHER PEOPLE. NOT ONLY COULD IT SAVE SOMEONE'S HOME, BUT IT COULD SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.

• Build fire in backyard to heat kettle of rain water.
• Set tubs so smoke wont blow in eyes if wind is pert.
• Shave one hole cake of lie soap in boilin water
• Sort things, make 3 piles
  • 1 pile white
  • 1 pile colored
  • 1 pile work britches and rags
• To make starch, stir flour in cool water to smooth, then thin down with boiling water.
• Take white things, rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard, and boil, then rub colored don't boil just wrench and starch.
• Take things out of kettle with broom stick handle, then wrench, and starch.
• Hang old rags on fence.
• Spread tea towels on grass.
• Pore wrench water in flower bed. Scrub porch with hot soapy water. Turn tubs upside down.
• Go put on clean dress, smooth hair with hair combs. Brew cup of tea, sit and rock a spell and count your blessings.
  
  For you non-southerners -wrench means rinse.

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