Cleaning, Laundry, Kitchen and Bath

Ask ACI: Kitchen Towel and Bath Towel Mix Up

Q. Help! I've mixed my kitchen towels with my bathroom cleaning rags. What should I do?

A. Generally, it is best not to mix the bathroom cleaning cloths with those used to clean food preparation surfaces or dishes. Bathroom cleaning cloths could carry a risk of contamination with fecal, skin-borne or other pathogens.

If you have mistakenly used your bathroom cleaning cloth in the kitchen, rewash your dishes and clean the surfaces again and disinfect them. If you used your kitchen towels in the bathroom, I recommend washing them in hot water or warm and add bleach.

So how hot is hot water?

Hot water is 120° - 140° F (50° - 60° C)

Warm water is 90° - 105° F (30-40°C)

Cold water is 65° - 85°F (20-30° C)

Custom Laundry Room Designs for Homes

A fully customized laundry room designed by Lang's Kitchen & Bath will bring your life the peace of mind you deserve. Stay organized and stay productive!

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Lang’s Kitchen and Bath is a family-owned design studio with extensive experience in kitchens and bath renovations, and remodeling other living spaces, including homes offices, closets, and laundry rooms. With more than 25 years of experience, Lang’s will design an incredible space that enhances your lifestyle.

Laundry is one of the most dreaded household tasks, and this is made worse if your laundry space is too chaotic. Dirty clothes are piled on the floor and a mishmash of socks with no pair sits in the corner. Wouldn’t it be great if you could bring order to that chaos in a designated space? Whether you’re looking to revamp your current laundry space or add a new laundry room, we will design a space that meets your laundry and storage needs.

Our certified design experts will spend time getting to know you and learning about your specific needs to ensure every element of the design fits your lifestyle. Are you a small family with minimal washing needs? Or do you have four athletic teenagers who have as much laundry as a professional sports team?

Designated hampers are a great option to keep dirty clothes organized and custom cabinetry or shelving offer a place for laundry detergents and other cleaning agents. Consider adding a sink for pre-soaking or a workspace to fold clean clothes. We can incorporate your personal style and any time saving touches that will minimize your laundry woes.

Regardless of the number of people living in your home, Lang’s Kitchen & Bath will take into account the size of the space and your family’s needs to design a laundry room that may leave you looking forward to laundry day.

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Kitchen, Bath and Laundry

These three areas typically are places where people sometimes forget to practice energy conservation. How many times do you let the hot water run in the sink while shaving, stand with the refrigerator door open while looking for something to eat, or use the clothes dryer when it’s a beautiful day outside? Remember these helpful tips:

Use cold water rather than hot to operate your food disposal. This saves the energy needed to heat the water, is recommended for the appliance, and aids in getting rid of grease.

Keep range-top burners and reflectors clean. They will reflect the heat better, and you will save energy.

Match the size of pan to the heating element. More heat will get to the pan; less will be lost to surrounding air.

Turn off the burners or oven several minutes before the allotted cooking time. The heating element will stay hot long enough to finish the cooking for you without using more electricity.

When using the oven, cook as many foods as you can at one time.

Don’t continually open the oven door to check food. Every time you open the door heat escapes and your cooking takes more time and uses more energy.

Use small appliances (electric pans, convection ovens) for small meals. They use less energy.

Keep the refrigerator door openings to a minimum and get the food in or out as quickly as possible to minimize cold air loss.

Clean the dust from the refrigerator’s condenser coils (located in the back or under the appliance) every few months. Dust acts as insulator, which decreases refrigerator efficiency.

Defrost the refrigerator when the frost builds up to 1/4″ for maximum efficiency.

Check the refrigerator door seals for tightness. This can be done by closing the door on a piece of paper so it is half in and half out. If you can pull the paper out easily, the seal may need repaired or replaced. Also apply a light coat of Vaseline on the gasket to enhance the effectiveness of the seal.

Refrigerator Temperature Settings:

Don’t Keep your refrigerator or freezer too cold. Recommended temperatures are 35°- 38°F for the fresh food compartment and 0°F for separate freezers for long term storage. Check the refrigerator temperature by placing an appliance thermometer in a glass of water in the center of the refrigerator. Read it after 24 hours. Check the freezer temperature by placing a thermometer between frozen packages. Read it after 24 hours.

Consider purchasing higher efficiency appliances. ENERGY STAR ® Refrigerators Are Cool! ENERGY STAR-qualified refrigerators use 15% less energy than non-qualified models. Models with top-mounted freezers use 10% – 25% less energy than side-by-side or bottom-mount units. Reference: http://energy. gov/energysaver/kitchen-appliances

Take a shower rather than tub baths. Less hot water is usually used for short showers than for tub baths.

Do not leave water running while shaving, brushing teeth, etc. Why pay for all of that wasted hot water going down the drain?

Wash and rinse clothes in cold water. You’ll save energy and money by only using hot water when necessary.

Wash only full loads of laundry, but don’t overload the washer.

Pre-soak when washing heavily soiled garments. You’ll avoid two washings and save energy.

Keep the lint screen in the dryer clean. Remove lint after each load. Lint impedes the flow of air in the dryer and requires the machine to use more energy during its cycle.

Remove items as soon as the dryer stops. This avoids unnecessary wrinkling that will require pressing.

Save energy by using the old-fashioned clothesline, when practical. As a bonus, clothes dried outdoors often seem fresher and cleaner than those taken from a mechanical dryer.

Keep the outside exhaust of your clothes dryer clean. Check it regularly. A clogged exhaust lengthens the drying time and increases the amount of energy used.

If your dryer has an automatic dry cycle, use it. Over drying merely wastes energy.

Remember to use appliances according to manufacturer’s directions and ensure proper maintenance.

Cleaning, Laundry, Kitchen and Bath

The company's history began in 1793, when it was founded as a net and rigging factory. After the Second World War, production was expanded to include woven carpets and rugs and sisal and wool mats. In the early 1970s, equipment was installed for the tufting and dyeing of bath carpets.

This area of production, bathroom fashions, was then systematically expanded with the installation of facilities for the manufacture of shower curtains and bath safety mats.

The company has it's office in the north of Germany, in Bremen.

A professional design centre staffed by experienced and quality-conscious employees and equipped with the most up-to-date technology allowes our customers' needs to be satisfied quickly and flexibly.