Want to dry your jeans without using heat? Heat typically makes jeans, as well as other garments, dry more quickly. When exposed to heat, the water within a pair of recently washed jeans will evaporate, thereby drying them.
There are instances, however, in which you may want to dry your jeans without using heat. Stretch jeans, for instance, are more vulnerable to shrinkage when exposed to heat than their non-stretch counterparts. They contain a small amount of an elastic material, such as polyester or lycra. If exposed to heat, this elastic material will shrink, which may cause the stretch jeans to no longer fit. Whether your jeans are made of regular denim or stretch denim, you can dry them without using heat in one of several ways.
Use the ‘Fluff’ Setting
You can safely dry your jeans without using heat by turning your dryer to the “fluff” setting. The “fluff” setting isn’t necessarily designed to fluff your clothes. Rather, it’s designed to dry clothes without heat. Most modern dryers have a “fluff” setting.” It works in the same as the other settings but without heat. Your jeans will tumble around inside of the dryer’s cylinder drum, thus drying them.
Keep in mind that without heat, it will take jeans a little longer to dry. Depending on the type of dryer you have, as well as the type of jeans, it may take about 30 minutes. Nonetheless, the “fluff” setting offers a safe and effective way to dry your jeans without exposing them to heat.
Use a Hairdryer
Another way to dry your eans without using heat is to run a hairdryer across them. Like dryers, hair dryers have multiple settings, including a cold or no-heat setting.
To dry your jeans using a hairdryer, lie them flat across an even surface. Many people use an ironing board for this purpose. After placing your jeans on an even surface, turn on your hairdryer with the cold or no-heat setting. You can then slowly run the hairdryer over the surface of your jeans.
Hang Them in Your Bathroom
Sometimes all it takes to dry a pair of wet jeans is to hang them up for a little while. Assuming your bathroom has a shower in it, it should have a curtain rod. Curtain rods are used to hold a shower curtain, which you can pull over your shower to prevent the water from splashing onto your bathroom’s floors. Additionally, however, you can hang a pair of wet jeans on the curtain rod to dry them without using heat.
For faster drying times, turn on the exhaust fan. Bathrooms are designed with an exhaust fan that runs from the inside of your home to the outside. It will suck up the moist up from inside your bathroom and transport it outside. Your jeans will dry when hung on a curtain rod, regardless of whether the use of the exhaust fan. The exhaust fan simply accelerates drying times by pumping out the moist air.
Hang Them Outside
Rather than hanging them inside your bathroom, you can dry your jeans by hanging them outside. Known as line-drying, it’s the oldest garment-drying technique in the world. Long before dryers and other devices were invented, people would dry their clothes by hanging them on a line outside.
To line-dry your jeans, run a line between two fixed objects somewhere outside your home. You can simply wrap a line between two trees. Once secured, you can then hang your jeans on this line to dry them.
It’s recommended that you use clothespins to connect your jeans to the line. Simply draping your jeans over the line may cause them to fall. If it’s windy outside, your jeans may blow off the line, in which case you’ll probably have to rewash them. Connecting them with just two or three clothespins, conversely, will hold them to the line.
Here are some tips on how to line-dry your jeans:
- Choose an area that’s directly exposed to the sun and not shaded or otherwise concealed.
- Smooth out your jeans on the line so that they aren’t bunched up.
- Connect your jeans to the line using two or three clothespins.
- Avoid hanging your jeans near a windbreak. Wind will make them dry more quickly, so you should hang them on a line that’s out in the open.
- Allow your jeans to line-dry for at least one hour before removing them.
Sandwich Between Two Towels
It may sound like an unorthodox method, but you can dry your jeans by sandwiching them between two towels. After removing your jeans from the washing machine, place them outside with two towels. Wrap one towel over the top of the jeans, and wrap the other towel under the bottom of the jeans. The towels will absorb the moisture from your jeans so that they become dry.
If you’re going to dry your jeans by sandwiching them between two towels, remember to place them outside where they’ll be exposed to the fresh air and sunlight. You may be able to dry them inside your home using this same method, but your jeans will dry much faster outside.
Spot Clean Rather Than Washing
You’ll typically only need to dry your jeans after washing them. Washing requires water. When you wash your jeans, you’ll submerge them in water. You’ll then need to dry your jeans so that the water is released from their denim material.
Of course, an alternative solution is to spot clean your jeans rather than washing them. Spot cleaning involves manually cleaning areas that are visibly dirty. If you discover a small stain on your jeans, for example, you can spot clean. Just take a damp washcloth with a small amount of liquid detergent and blot the stained area. With a little elbow grease, the stain should come out. By spot cleaning your jeans, you won’t have to expose them to water, nor will have you to dry them.
