Laundry in London

A whole post on doing laundry in London? Yes. The struggles surrounding having clean clothes to wear are outlined below:

• Machines here tend to be much smaller, which means that your loads are also much smaller, and you have more of them.
• Washing machines are almost always located in the kitchen, under a counter top, like a dishwasher would be.
• Dryers on their own are quite rare.  You can dry your clothes on a drying rack, or by putting your stuff on radiators. I do this with the majority of my clothes anyway, but it gets tricky with towels and sheets.
• Washer/Dryers in the same machine exist here. You switch the knob to change the function. 
• Dryers (or the dryer function) take an extremely long time, and you clothes are never really dry. You pull them out and they are steaming, and hot to touch, but still damp.
• Washing cycles also take forever. The shortest cycle that I've found is one hour. 

All in all it means that getting to the bottom of my laundry hamper takes an extremely long time. It's not that big of a deal, but it does make doing laundry extra annoying. Who knows, I could have extremely high laundry standards and maybe this wouldn't bother someone else.