How to clean clothes Philippine style.

It's raining here steadily all day, so I'm inside.
The roof is leaking in the living room, but not badly...just badly enough to shut off electricity to that side of the house.
The plumbing must have another leak in it, because the pump is on constantly.
We have our own well...and our own watertank to keep water flowing.

In recent years, there is city water, but it is low pressure. So even then we have to use our own pump if we want any water pressure (usually people just leave a bucket below the dripping faucet to collect water...takes an hour or two to fill the bucket. You wash and then clean with the bucket. Similarly, there is a ladle to clean after using the toilet...I'm the only one who uses toilet paper around here...which is NEVER thrown into the toilet...we are rich enough to have a septic tank, but usually waste water just goes down the open ditches on the side of the street).

Lately, we had to redig our well because the water level was too low in the dry season, and it worked fine. But now our pump is on all the time, which means either there is a leak in the system or the pump is not working...
The pump is noisy, so I turn it off at 8pm and we run out of water by morning (we flush with a bucket if we run out earlier).

We have a heater for hot water in the bathroom so we can have warm showers...it's a small electric heater that heats the water flowing thru. We don't have hot water tanks here.

Our American style washer finally broke, but then usually the clothes/linens are washed by hand and the help only used the washer to rinse and spin.
Since our kitchen area isn't closed in yet, I bought a spinner to help dry the clothes (Here the washers just drain...or you buy a washer with a small spinner on the side. But I bought a heavy duty spinner, since our main problem is wringing out the wet towels and linen.)
When the clothes are done by hand with strong soap, they tend to get tears in them and fade...
In the utility room is a low faucet, and we use a large plastic tub to soak the clothes in soapy water. Then the clothes are washed with soap, with the dirty areas scrubbed using bar soap and a brush and board....then they are wrung out lightly and rinsed under the faucet.
Usually then, the girls wring them out completely and hang them out to dry.
The spinner does this much more efficiently and saves the girls from the hard work of wringing out, especially for the jeans, towels, and large linens.

If they ever close in the kitchen/utility area, and place a water pipe for a washer and another electrical outlet, I'll buy a washer too.

Usually we hang the clothes up either in the yard or on the roof...when it rains like now, we hang them in the garage.

Of course, the clothes don't dry well: even when it doesn't rain, the humidity is high.
One alternative is to use a clothesdrier, but they are very expensive here.

So we hang them up, and then iron the damp clothing.
I date back to wringer washers and hanging clothes in the basement in the winter and outside in the summer so none of this is much different.

However, I do miss my washer/drier...and there are no local laundromats either...