People can avoid getting '£220 bill' by changing washing machine setting View 3 Images

UK households could be burning through money each time they tackle a load of laundry, and they're not even getting cleaner clothes for the privilege. It comes down to how hot people are setting their wash cycles, with some costing families hundreds of pounds extra each year .

Charanjit Mannu , director at Elec Training , claimed that most UK households stick with unnecessarily hot wash programmes . He suggested that these settings consume three times more electricity than cooler options, without achieving any better cleaning results.

The high-temperature programme on washing machines remains amongst the most costly appliance configurations to operate. Mannu states the 90°C setting eats up a

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