We all know how totally boring a conversation about “doing the laundry” can be. Let’s look at some interesting facts about laundry in Raleigh NC. Laundry Express is here to help you with some fun trivia for laundry!

Here in America, laundry accounts for only 21 percent of your indoor water usage. Most would guess it uses the most. However, forty-one percent is used for flushing the toilet. If you have more than one bathroom in the home, then that is a much larger use of water. The average American family does 8–10 loads of laundry each week. A single load of laundry, from wash to dry, takes an average of one hour and twenty-seven minutes to do. This means we easily spend 8 to 10 hours on the average per week doing the laundry in Raleigh NC.

Think you do a lot of laundry? Well, if you wash and dry one load of laundry every day for the next 44 years, you just might do as much laundry as the laundry persons at Walt Disney World do in a single day. The laundry folks there wash an average of 285,000 pounds of laundry each day. They also send out somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 to 32,000 garments to be dry-cleaned daily. It takes a lot to keep Mickey looking good.

Some interesting laundry trivia include a look back in history. In August 1776, the British forces occupied New York City. Needing to get information about British troop movements was critical to General George Washington. However, the Patriot Army had no really good way to get this valuable information. In 1778, Benjamin Tallmadge recruited a small group of trusted men and women. The Culper Spy Ring began to use laundry to help them gather and pass along important information. Anna Smith Strong, whose husband local Patriot judge Selah Strong, was confined on the British prison ship HMS Jersey used the laundry on her clothesline to leave signals regarding where spies should gather to share information.

In the Civil War a laundress was paid from fees deducted from a soldiers’ pay. Each enlisted man had 50 cents withheld monthly, unmarried officers $1.00 to $2.00 monthly and married officers paid $4.00 monthly.

One of the largest outdoor laundry facility is Dhobi Ghat. Dhobi Ghat is found in Mumbai, India. Dhobis or washermen and their families start their laundry business early in the morning. The laundries are row upon row of concrete wash pens each with its own flogging stone. The clothes are dipped in soapy water, then beaten on the flogging stones then rinsed clean. The next day, the clothes are neatly pressed and delivered to the owners.

Ever been interested in interpreting your dreams?

• Dreaming that you are doing your laundry might be a suggestion that you are looking to clean up your ways or need to change your image because you are concerned about how you appear to others.
• Dream that you are having someone else do your laundry could possibly mean that you have been gossiping with others. Maybe airing someone else’s dirty laundry by hanging it out for all to see.
• If the dream involves about sorting the laundry,” it indicates that you are trying to understand your own feelings and sorting out your attitudes.”

If you are being run ragged, just attempting to keep up with all your extra laundry in Raleigh NC. give Laundry Express a try! We offer state of the art machine for washing and drying your clothes. We also offer laundry services that include dry cleaning, wash-dry-fold, and stain removal! Don’t get behind on your family’s laundry. We are here to help! Visit Laundry Express soon!

In today’s fast-paced market, it is easy to become confused about some name changes on our most used products. One of these products is laundry detergent. Laundry detergents have certainly come a long way over the last 10 to 15 years. At one time there were only a few to choose from. This blog post will look at concentrated detergent products and how to pick and use the right one for your laundry in Raleigh NC.

In earlier years washing machines were simpler to use. You simply lowered the laundry into the washer, put in your detergent, pushed a few selections, and then the start button. The selections were very limited and basic. Machines today allow you the user to select from many options in order to do your laundry properly.

When consumers are looking for the right laundry detergent, it can be overwhelming. When you look at the lineup in your local big box store you will see there are many brands and types of laundry detergent available in today’s world. Each of these options promises to clean your laundry in the best way possible. Most of them will get the job done but some can become very pricey. In addition to regular laundry detergent, some will be advertised as a 2X or 3X laundry detergent. Some will also be advertised as an HE detergent. To understand what these are we will look at them individually.

Laundry detergent has always been available in a concentrated formula. Concentrated detergents are thicker and have less water in the product than ordinary ones. The biggest draw for them is that they are smaller in size and easier to take with you or to bring home from the grocery store. Concentrated detergent requires you to also use less of the product. They will also take up less room when storing them on store shelves or even in your laundry area. In today’s market, the single use laundry pods have become very popular. You simply throw one of these pods which are concentrated laundry detergent into the washer and that’s it. The concentrated amount of detergent in the pod will be enough to clean your whole load of laundry in Raleigh NC.

These newer concentrated detergents have certainly simplified doing our everyday laundry. It takes the guesswork out of the question of how much detergent to use. The new HE washing machines also require a specific kind of laundry detergent that is labeled HE. HE means high efficiency. Using a regular detergent in these machines can damage or cause your clothes not to get as clean as they should.

There are benefits to these concentrated detergents. The first is their impact on the environment. These products have fewer fillers and water and the packaging is much less than other detergents. Less paper and plastic packaging mean less recycling. Less water use and product use mean huge savings for you. Be sure to follow the manufacturer’s directions for the right use of the products.

Laundry Express knows your time at home with family is valuable. Doing laundry in Raleigh NC can be time consuming. We can help you with all thing’s laundry. Come by and check out our state of the are laundry facility here in the Triangle area. We can help you get caught up as quickly as possible and get you back to doing things that are much more fun! Call us today!