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Six tips to take care of your clothes.
Drop the garbage bag. Clothes should preferably be wrapped in cloth or cardboard. Synne Hellum Marshhäuser
Background: Through a series of articles, we provide consumers with tips and tricks so they can live a greener life. No index fingers, just lighting.
The expert: Ingun Grimstad Klepp. Researcher at SIFO and Oslo Met. Current with the book Lightly dressed. Well dressed with little environmental impact together with Tone Skårdal Tobiasson.
Soon it’s time to pack your summer clothes. How should it be stored? How can you avoid moth-eaten clothes? Klepp has the answers. She is concerned about taking care of her clothes. If properly covered, it will withstand a host of harsh conditions.
Ingun Grimstad Klepp E claim Rohne
1. Remove stains, pocket debris, and rusted items
Take care before storing your clothes, Klepp recommends:
- Empty everything into the pockets of the garment.
- Make sure clothes are clean. Stains should be removed as soon as possible.
- Remove items that may rust or damage the garment. For example, pins.
- Clothes must be completely dry when unpacked. Feel free to pack on a dry day outside as well.
2. Avoid the basement
Can you avoid storing clothes in the basement? Moisture can ruin clothes, says Klepp. The smell from the basement is also impossible to remove.
You can use the crude warehouse, but then you have to take care of the humidity, according to Roy Nilsen, general manager of Anticimex insurance. Organic material can start to mold, especially if the humidity exceeds 70 percent. The smell of mold is a kind of gas, explains Nilsen, and the smell of mold is identical to the so-called basement smell.
If you turn on the heat, it hurts worse in a damp basement, according to Nilsen. Because then mold thrives. Ventilation is the key.
As the temperature increases, the relative humidity of the air decreases. This is positive, but then the humid air needs to be vented, explains Nilsen. Therefore, heating with good ventilation can also help with humidity in the basement.
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Plastic does not breathe. The expert recommends cardboard or textiles. Shutterstock / NTB scanpix
3. Don’t wrap clothes in plastic
It will also be wet if you pack your clothes in plastic, according to Klepp.
– A lot of people probably think it’s safe to pack in plastic, but plastic doesn’t breathe, says Klepp.
Instead, use cardboard or fabric, such as cloth bags or worn duvet covers. You can also make a cloth bag out of an old duvet cover or sheet, suggests Klepp.
4. Hang your clothes up
If you have to store in the basement, the floor should be avoided, according to Klepp. The roof is warmer and drier, and floods rarely exceed one meter, he explains.
For example, clothes can be hung in bedding bags with hooks on the ceiling.
Jackets or dresses can be wrapped in an old sheet, for example. As protection against dust and animals. Synne Hellum Marshhäuser
5. Do you hang heavy dresses? Rather not
If you have good closets, it’s a good place to hang dresses and jackets, according to Klepp. But then the garments should be hung on suitable hangers, he thinks.
– Heavy garments such as dresses, national costumes, silk dresses with spaghetti straps and others, should not hang from the shoulders. Then you shrug your shoulders. They should hang from the waist, so that both the skirt and the blouse hang down, says Klepp.
Clothes can tear, he explains. The idea is that they should rest on the trailer. A thick leather jacket, for example, will hold up well to tow.
– Wrap clothing if it can get dirty. You can hang a sheet over the hanger. You don’t need to buy your own textiles and bags, says Klepp.
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Does the dress or jacket really hold up to the hanger? Some dresses need to hang in the middle. Synne Hellum Marshhäuser
6. Moths, fur beetles, and mice
It’s not so easy to protect yourself against moths, skin beetles and similar insects, according to Klepp.
– Permanent treatment of textiles to prevent moths has been prohibited. It has produced more moths and skin beetles, she says.
Klepp hasn’t tried the poison or the advice of older women, but she has some advice:
- Removing stains, especially food stains, helps. This especially applies to food stains on wool and hair.
- Don’t leave things alone for years. Shake and dry the powder. Moths thrive undisturbed.
- It will help things hang off the ground. For mouse attacks it is also a possibility.
