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Using hot water to heat clothes??

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  • 04-04-2015 11:49am
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    ABCE
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭


    Does anyone know how to convert the energy in hot water from a shower(flowing) into heat energy?
    I usually work out in the mornings and then have a quick shower. Rather than having to change my sweaty clothes each time, is there any way I can perhaps heat up the clothes using the shower water maybe(so as to save energy by using the shower for two things at once?).
    I thought of just putting the clothes into the shower but that would take too long to dry up(I need them right after the shower).
    I also thought of placing the clothes on the shower curtain hanger(at the top) so that the steam from the water may heat up the clothes, but I'm hesitant as to if it would make much of a difference.
    Any suggestions would be helpful..


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    athtrasna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,420 ✭✭✭✭athtrasna


    ABCE wrote: »
    Does anyone know how to convert the energy in hot water from a shower(flowing) into heat energy?
    I usually work out in the mornings and then have a quick shower. Rather than having to change my sweaty clothes each time, is there any way I can perhaps heat up the clothes using the shower water maybe(so as to save energy by using the shower for two things at once?).
    I thought of just putting the clothes into the shower but that would take too long to dry up(I need them right after the shower).
    I also thought of placing the clothes on the shower curtain hanger(at the top) so that the steam from the water may heat up the clothes, but I'm hesitant as to if it would make much of a difference.
    Any suggestions would be helpful..

    Heating up sweaty clothes will only intensify any odours? Clean clothes is the way to go.


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    ABCE
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭ABCE


    But will heating up not dry out the sweat?


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    athtrasna
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    ABCE wrote: »
    But will heating up not dry out the sweat?

    It will evaporate the liquid but will dry the odours into the fabric. The clothes will reek!


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    ABCE
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭ABCE


    Thanks, I guess cleaning the clothes on a daily basis is the way to go then.


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    manjosh
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    Spreading it in the open to dry would have done the trick, but you can't wait for it to dry out. So fresh is the way to go. Maybe you get 2 or something.


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    bjork
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    Could you not just get different clothes for working out? I don't know anybody who wears their workout clothes to work/all day and quite frankly, I'm glad of that.


    Steam from the shower might knock out a few creases, but not sweat. That's madness.


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