Comment on why do some clothes shrink in the laundry and what can I do to prevent it?

• Venat0r@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Front loaders are generally gentler on clothes because they only spin and don’t oscilate at all. Also they don’t have a spiny tube thingy in the middle.

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  • haulyard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Many top loaders don’t have the tube in the center.

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    • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah but the concept is still the same. Top loaders submerge and scrub, front loaders dunk.

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• DivergentHarmonics@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not OP but i just found an answer. Top loaders may have a center agitator which is there to … agitate more – which we don’t want to do.

  Any machine that is without a center agitator will be more gentle on clothes and less likely to cause shrinking due to fiber damage and consolidation. If you have a top-loading washer with a center agitator, reduce its impact on your garments by opting for a gentle or hand-wash cycle.

  (from the same link that i posted in another comment)

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• DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Top loaders submerge & scrub. Front loaders dunk.

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