Cool water washes lead to bacteria in washer

[gelaundry4ever]

the only time I use cold water

is when I wash any dark colors or blues or reds. Everything else gets a warm or hot wash with bleach if they're light colors or whites. I want my whites perfectly white! And I do use a reasonable amount of laundry detergent, bleach and fabric softener. I use pods.

 

[KNowler360]

Claro, former maker of Miele tabs, sell a Hygiene tab that releases 180 ppm of PPA into one liter of wash water.

https://www.claro.at/shop/en/product/claro-hygiene-tabs/

Old topic, but this caught my attention. I was looking for a PPA based laundry sanitizer with a sporicidal strength (e.g. pet fungal infection fabrics cleanup), but could not find anything for home use. So I checked this out.

Not sure where the 180ppm comes from, it's not on the Claro website.

Also, you would need dozens of tablets for a 30-40 gallon washer to achieve a necessary ppm for a sporicidal effect. This is a small dishwasher tablet.

So back to search. It would be good to have some similar add-on product to drop in your washer to release a higher count of PPA ppm. I think the ppm released by Oxy powder detergents are miniscule, for the purpose of some bacterial reduction but not anywhere near needed for sanitation.

 

[phillymatt53]

the only time I use cold water

is when I wash any dark colors or blues or reds. Everything else gets a warm or hot wash with bleach if they're light colors or whites. I want my whites perfectly white! And I do use a reasonable amount of laundry detergent, bleach and fabric softener. I use pods.

When I do my laundry, since the machine has been sitting idle for a week or so, the first loads are for whites, with hot water, along with bleach.
So any nasty organisms that have managed to build up in the washer's guts are taken care of.
Then, I'll do the colored stuff on warm wash.
So far so good.