How to wash clothes

How to wash clothes in a Washer/Dryer

Seperate all clothes in to 2 piles

Pile 1: Anything white or which contains large amounts of white - this includes shirts, vests, towels, etc
Pile 2: The rest of everything you have - shirts, non-printed t-shirts, greys, blues, navy and blacks

thats it, done.

Wash 'Pile 1' (whites) using hot water if very dirty,  60 - 70 degrees or 80+ if heavily soiled
Wash 'Pile 2' using warm water of 40 degrees and no maximum then 50 degrees if very dirty

If items in 'pile 2' are heavily soiled then you may raise the temperature to 50 degrees or more but at this point consider seperating dark colours like navy and black/dark grey into a seperate pile

For heavily soiled items use 80 - 90 degrees only on white such as shirts. Do not use this temperaute with things that have elastic.

It is not necessary to seperate clothes according to the following criteria

Colour
Temperature
Fabric
Delicate Colurs

Using this methods is very inefficient because you will have four loads to wash and dry. For washer/dryers which cant dry a full load in one go, this will create five or six loads as you will have to take half the clothes out before drying the other half.

Most clothes are labeled to be washed at 40 degrees anyway so there is no point seperating in to temperatures. Imagine, if you then go about seperateing into types of fabric such as nylon, polyester, acrylic; you will create three more loads in addition to the four so, four + three = eight loads. Washing eight loads seperately is very inefficient.

Washing machine or washer/dryer manufacturers give examples of washing items seperately. Commonly they say a machine will have take 35 shirts, 10 towels, 50 vests.

No one has 35 shirts, or 50 vests or even 60 undies. The average person does not have this amount of one type of clothes only the rich and perfectly clean may have so. What the manufacturers say is misleading.

Imagine: you have the following items

14 shirt
14 trousers
14 undies
7 vests
7 pyjamas
4 jumpers
2 cardigan

You will have 7 loads to wash plus 2 loads to dry = 9 loads
Then imagine if you have to sort everything into piles of colours, piles or fabric. You may end up with a double load. 2 x 9 = 18 loads and you might end up washing the whole week and run-up a huge electricity and water bill. So, this is very inefficient and ineffective. The way manufacturers give examples or what some other people do are not the way to do things because it is very ineffective and inefficient. Only go down that route if you are rich or dont mind wasting time, energy and being inefficient.