European Dryers Explained for American Tourists
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Traveling to Europe this summer? Well don't be a stinky tourist and learn how to do your laundry while you travel. Here is some help from Jocelyn
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Wow, lots of mean comments on here. I would like to point out that Jocelyn is explaining the differences for US travelers to Europe. You will find more dryers the farther you go north in Europe. However, for the upset trolls that were incredibly rude to Jocelyn in the comments, US dryers are only hot air and not the dehumidfier types of dryers (though they are becoming more popular in the US). In the US it is pretty kuch a given that people have a washer and a dryer. Not just one (yes there are exveptions, but in general it is a 1 to 1 thing in the US). And I do find it odd how many more rude and evil comments videos that Jocelyn make get over the ones I make. And that is not just here but over all videos.
Oh wow.. Not sure why the mean comments when Jocelyn is trying to give us well informed information with good intentions. Ignore them! You go girl! Love you both from Canada! 💕
people are going to hate on anything and everything to be honest, just got to look for the love and continue to spread the love of christ.
Poor Jocelyn. She doesn't deserve all that hate and is as much a part of Wolters World as you are.
Hi Mark,sorry to hear that Jocelyn is being subjected to this nastiness for no reason.Some people have sad miserable lives and get off on trolling,I guess. Love your channel.I've been watching all your videos on Malta over the last few days as I'm heading there on Thursday.Keep up the good work.
Just left a comment and saw this. What the actual flip. Sigh. I’m so sorry about the rude comments. It’s so frustrating when folks behind an anonymous screen can make any comment they like.
I would have never thought to do that, I probably would have thought I broke it! It’s little things like that that you don’t really think about until you’re faced with a machine totally different than back home. Love these helpful videos.
yep, that's why jocelyn made the video as we had to help a few travelers over the years un-break their dryers :)
@@WoltersWorldShorts haha! Nothing like the fear of ruining a host's home.
An extra tip from me: you can google manuals for most appliances (things like dryers always have the model number visible), so if you have 10 minutes to spare, you can use them confidently. I also wanted to say I love this video! One of my favorite things about this channel is that Mark (I've never seen a video by Jocelyn before) gives some advice for Americans, but doesn't see everything from an American point of view and appreciates things that might be better in other cultures. And personally, I agree with everything Jocelyn said :)
thank you
Never saw that feature on a dryer where you need to dump the water. Thanks for sharing this tip.😊❤
it is not all the time, just enough that we thought we needed to make the video. hope you are well
i am german and many germans dont have a dryer at all because electricity is very expensive here. But when we have a dryer is mostly that type where you have to dump the water.
In the US they are labeled as ventless dryers used in apartments where there are no holes to the outside. We had a dryer in the 90’s in Germany and it worked like this. The washers also spin faster so the clothes come out dryer to begin with. They also do not fuzz clothes like the US washers do.
lol. I remember having my first European experience. They all were so helpful and friendly. They also helped me to remember my landscape, in I come back to Europe
I use the water from my condenser to water my house plants. UK based.
cool
I was think of it the same way 👍
Since it is almost like distilled water, turned into steam in your clothes then condensed again, it may miss some of the stuff plants need. Disclaimer: not a biologist just something that crossed my mind as possible.
@@sonkeschluter3654 it would be good for ironing.
We stayed in Spain last year and the place had a washer & dryer combo. It seems those are getting more popular than the separate units. Ty for posting!
I actually had no idea about the symbols until watching this video. Thanks Jocelyn and Mark! We normally do hotels, for various reasons, but we did stay in a place in Greece a couple years ago that had one of those two in one washer/dryers and it would have been super helpful to know this then. Great content!
We stayed at a hotel in Paris a block's distance from a laundromat. Made packing light a lot easier and the machines (presumably commercial grade) weren't too hard to figure out. Sat and talked with some interesting locals too!
Great instructions for sure, but speaking from a Scandinavian perspective, the majority of us has dryers - the weather is simply not good enough for most of the year for drying outside. Speaking for myself we’ve had a dryer for 45 years now.
True.
Excellent & concise info, thanks a bunch Jocelyn! 🙌
I've always had trouble trying to figure out the dryers in the Airbnb's in Europe. They're usually only symbols with no text (sometimes the symbols are just so odd) that don't make much sense to me as I'm used to north American dryers.
Thank you Jocelyn! It was sweet, short and informative!
Dryers are actually quite common in private homes in northern Europe. The reason you don’t get them often in holiday rentals / Airbnbs is simply that a lot of tourists don’t take care of stuff and break them…. I’m talking from experience as a landlord….
Super helpful!! Thanks for this :)
In Russia we don't have dryers usually. But we have washing machines combined with dryers. It suitable for a small apartments we usually have. Dream of separate dryer and washing machine in my new house :)
Oh that's a small dryer, ours is much bigger! 1:19 Don't dump it away! You can use it for iron your clothes!
Good info Jocelyn!
thank you
A great idea for a video for you to do would be about drying your clothes when you have to do an entire load for the whole family but only have a washer in a small place and no dryer. We actually brought a small bundle of lightweight cord with us to Europe just in case we needed a makeshift clothesline. Whenever our rentals had s dryer too, we felt like kings.
Thanks for showing us. Washers are so different in. Europe. We found especially in Prague, Croatia. But In Greece our clothes got locked into Airbnb washer it took a day for owner to rescue them…thankfully we flew out day after rescue BUT cut it close we could have been without clothes rest of trip. 😂~Cara
They are non vented dryers so the air has nowhere to blow out which you usually have in the States that’s why it collects the water, you can just plug them in without venting. Electricity is sky high in Ireland so we have dryers but try not use them. The thing here is an all in one machine for washing and drying, yes one machine the size of your washer is used, non vented mostly.
Yes haha, dryers here in Ireland seem to be for emergencies or very bad weather
It's a heat pump/dehumidifier dryer!
Yes! The point of this video is that European dryers actually use a completely different method to remove the water. American dryers vent humid air to the outside of the building (which requires a vent to the outside and limits where you can put a dryer). European dryers use a condensing method to remove water from the clothes, but then that water has to be MANUALLY EMPTIED REGULARY BY THE USER. I did not understand that at first, and my clothes were not drying properly, because the condenser was already full! Ours had a drawer to pull out and empty, instead of having the water visible in the door window like the one in the video. Thanks Jocelyn!
I’ve never seen this before. A lint filer and a water filter? Maybe I don’t travel enough. I remember sometimes drying my clothes outside when I lived in Japan.
I'm with you Jocelyn. I rather hang clothes to dry. Dryers shrink and fade clothes. I only dry bedding and towels. 😊
yes, i am wearing a shirt now that has been dried like 4 times and is at least a size and a half smaller
its the temperature that shrinks the clothes.. i once had a dryer that was really quick, clothes were dry in 30 minutes but some of my clothes didnt survive and came out smaller than before. Now i have a dryer that takes up to 3 hours to finish and i dont have any problems with shrinking or fading clothes.
@@ClaudiaG.1979 That's great if you have your own dryer, but I live in a building and can't pay for 3 hours of drying.
I remember the first time I travelled alone (Italy), I had to call my mum because I didn't know how to use a washing machine. 😂
been there my friend :)
I tried drying some things outside but they were just all stiff. I’m pro dryer! 😂
If you have time, you shouldn't be using a dryer. Just put your clothes outside and let them airdry
do you have the link to your washer video. I am planning on going for a long trip next year and this is helpful.
Just search"wolters world washing clothes abroad europe" should be 2 different videos that pop up.
These are condenser dryers which means they don't have hoses that connect to an outside vent; they are literally plug and play, no plumbing required, just connection to a tap and a power outlet. What is super annoying in Europe is combo washer-dryers, one piece of equipment that functions as both a washer and dryer.. A cycle for one load can easily take 5 hours (washing plus drying, so plan accordingly).
That is very interesting. I've watched a lot of videos on Europe recently and have noticed that they said there usually are no air conditioners in houses as well. Being asthmatic,it just makes me wonder how people with asthma in Europe survive. Usually for us asthmatics in the states we are told that when we come in from being outside that we should shower and wash the clothes that we were wearing to get the allergens off them from outside,so if you dried them outside it would just put the allergens back onto the clothes. Then heat can also cause asthma to flare. So I am just curious, Does it not get very hot over there? Are there no allergens?
Many people, myself included, line dry laundry indoors (in a well ventilated room). And large portions of Europe don't (or didn't use to until recently) get enough very hot days to justify air conditioning.
Air conditioning exists in Europe and is very common in warmer places like southern Spain.
I have asthma and hay fever, live in the UK and have travelled extensively in Europe and USA (and beyond). I only find very specific regions that either have a lot of pollution or a lot of my pollen triggers need that level of care. There is rarely enough either pollutants or humidity to need air conditioning or a clothes change on return. I usually open windows for a fresh breeze and find air conditioning, with often poorly maintained filters as it’s so rare, a bigger problem in the north of Europe and in the south it can vary day to day or noon to evening…
i am from germany and we usually dont have aircon in our houses.. electricity is very expensive. We also only have like 1 or 2 month real hot summer, so we really dont need a aircon. We like to "air out" the house, meaning we open all the windows in the morning when its still cold outside, letting the fresh breeze in and then shut the blinds for the the rest of the day and air out the house again in the evening.. This works really good. You have to know our houses are made out of bricks, they hold the cold very good, so it doesnt get as warm inside as in a typical american house.
It still baffles me why people don't use heat pump dryers. They are just plug and play and no extra pipes required. I still see people hanging clothes outside or racks for days. These are usually the people who can afford those huge 4K HD TVs but not a £500 dryer. 😅
A 4K TV is like $200 what are you on about
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I used dryers in Japan and they were hella weak. Took like 3 cycles for my clothes
This is a heat pump dryer. More and more of them are being sold in the USA because they use less energy and reduces signifcantly electric bills where the cost of electricity per kWh is high.
yep.
Wait - they actually have dryers in Europe?!
yes, they are there... if you look very carefully ;)
@@WoltersWorldShortsI guess it must be a more recent thing or maybe only in certain places. I lived and traveled all over Spain and never saw a dryer once.
At last since the 1980s sorry not old enough to remember earlier things :)
The dryer looks weird...
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BRILLIANT Recommendation (per your custom). But, one comment: Please stop promoting AirBnB's. I was recently in Lisbon and Mexico City, and they are significantly skewing the local rental markets (upsetting the locals and - ipso facto - changing the CULTURE). I dont care if the AirBnB have washers and wifi. Get a hotel. Keep up the good work. Jim.
We try not to, it is the default vocab word for apartment rentals these days. I have done a few videos on the impacts of airbnbs on communities. And cities are starting to push back on them, see NYC.
I love that style of dryer. If laundromats had those, they'd make more money because more people would use their services.
are you nuts? cotton shrinks if you dry it on "hot"