Patent ID: 8914989

Claim:
A method of operating a clothes dryer having a rotating treating chamber into which heated air may be provided to dry a wet laundry load within the treating chamber, the method comprising: automatically determining a size of the laundry load within the treating chamber; automatically determining an amount of treating chemistry to be applied to the laundry load based on the determined size of the laundry load; automatically determining an application concentration at which the amount of treating chemistry is to be applied to the laundry load based on the determined size of the laundry load; forming a treating solution by mixing a concentrated form of the amount of treating chemistry with a diluent such that the treating solution has an application concentration of the treating chemistry; and supplying the treating solution to the treating chamber, wherein the automatically determining the size of the laundry load comprises automatically determining a qualitative size of the laundry load, and wherein the qualitative size is based on a quantitative size of the laundry load.