Can you name these baffling laundry symbols? Take our quiz to find out
IF you see a funny Dalek, a Pink Floyd album cover or the Avengers logo, chances are you can’t read or write laundry.
A recent survey found that only three percent of the population could recognize all the washing, drying and ironing symbols on their clothes.
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Of the symbols, “hand wash only” was the most familiar, at 79 percent, followed by “dry clean only” at 61 percent – but how many do you understand?
Find out if you’re a laundry legend or a spin-fried by taking Josh Saunders’ laundry symbols quiz.
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And the answers…
1) HAND wash only
2) Washing machine, every cycle
3) Synthetic cycle
4) Gentle or wool wash cycle
5) Not suitable for hand or machine washing
6) Wash at 30C or lower
7) Wash at 40C or lower
8) Wash at 50C or lower
9) Wash at 60C or lower
10) Wash at 95C or lower
11) Tumble dry at any temperature
12) Tumble dry, low temperature only
13) Tumble dry, medium heat only
14) Tumble dry, high temperature only
15) Do not tumble dry
16) Dry clean with a solvent (no, it’s not the Marvel logo)
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17) Dry clean with any solvent except trichloroethylene
18) Dry clean only with petroleum solvents
19) Do not dry clean
20) Dry clean only
21) Ironing is allowed (has nothing to do with Daleks)
22) Iron at a maximum temperature of 110C
23) Do not iron
24) Iron at a maximum temperature of 150C
25) Do not iron with steam
26) No, not Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon – it’s any type of bleach that’s allowed
27) Use only non-chlorine bleach
28) Do not bleach
29) You can wring it dry
30) Do not wring
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