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i would say that boil wash for clothes is bad and second of all its wasting electricety in my point of view if you really went to save on your electric bill you should wash only in cold water and a cooldown on a wash load is not bad its to prevent wrinkles on the clothes me if i have to wash in warm water witch in other word is my bedding my washer do a cooldown that way it protects the fabric all perm press cycles(casual) on some washer do a cooldown to protect fabrics.
 
"Boilwashes are good for the machine and clothes"

While there may be some benefits for the washing machine, routine high temperature laundering greatly shortens the lifespan of most textiles/garments sold today. This is one reason many do not like sending their better things much less their finest textiles to commercial laundries.

By their nature most commercial laundries use very high wash temps (>160F)and or harsh detergents and bleaches not only to ensure soil removal but to add measure of hygiene due to laundering varied persons articles in the same wash.

Years ago linens, shirts and such were designed and produced to withstand frequent boiling washes. This would include running up articles much larger than required to compensate for shrinkage, as well as using sturdy weaves that could not only take hard laundering but the ironing that surely followed. For instance bed linens were usually heavy linen or cotton muslin.
 
8-9 washes a day!!

When there were 6 of us living at home and my brother playing football everyday and Mum regularly washing the whole team kit as well as school uniform and her all the regular clothes she never did 8 or 9 washes a day. It's just mad, definitely OCD and sheer weate, but hey, it's your money or rather, your parents! I am amazed they allow it!
 
Hoovermatic

Yes I was also wondering. Their money or parents money? Quite often see things like "My new Bosch Iron" or "Jumped in the back of my car" or "My somethingorother". Very amused at how such things belonging to Mothers and Fathers are made out to be belongings of children.

Makes me wonder if we have folk lying about their ages and are actually adults earning a wage to afford such things or a bunch of what would of been described as 'Jumped up' kids in my day.

Either way im finding less and less reason to enter the Deluxe forum to read and to be fair finding less reasons to post in Vintage due to the fact im sick of having photos and videos taken by kids who cant even give a token word of thanks when they re post them in their silly youtube videos or uncalled for threads and give credit to the actual person who owns them! Its now a world where the elders owe the kids everyting it seems.
 
Yeh but that bosch iron acually is MINE Rob, my mum gave it to me as she preferd her old black and decker iron, i use the bosch iron to give items that i have made on MY sewing machine a nice neat fininsh.
(carries on ironing)
also keep your eyes peeld as i am changing my lolcat to somthing that showas i dont really give a damn aboiut what people say
 
Think of the environment!

I know some of you really like doing laundry, but please spare a thought for the environment!

8 or 9 washes a day is a vast amount of detergent, water and electricity that really is being used unnecessarily.

Not only is it bad for the environment, it's also very bad for whoever is paying the electricity bill's bank account!

You'll also wear out and destroy clothes unnecessarily. No washing machine or detergent combination is utterly harmless to clothes. Every wash takes some colour out (dye bleed) and damages / weaken the fibres.

If you are managing your laundry correctly, you should be trying to minimise the number of washes you do, not maximising them.

Sort your colours / fabric types.
Fill your machine to capacity.
Wash on the lowest temp that you can get away with.

I find a lot of the stories of stinking machines etc a bit odd.
We run our machine maybe once every 2 days or so, it usually washes at 40ºC and we have never had any of these mould / mildew problems and our clothes are perfectly clean.
 
me in my case the main reason i wash in cold water is to protect the enviroment because (i have read on the internet that frequant washing in hot water raise the risk of global warming of of the earth{*off topic for a sec here}) if you need to do a boil or hot water wash maybe you should do this only when its nesecary and if you need to do a wash load maybe use cold water temp cool water temp(depending on washer model) or a warm water wash and do boil wash loads occasanaly like for explem after someone is sick to kill the germs or when you have something that needs to be bleach.
 
I do 30*c

I only do about one wash a week =]

and I wash at 30*c with one biological tablet (Almat Bio)

i use this for whites and colours, my darks have limited fading, and my whites are nice and bright.

sheets and towels get 40*c and on occasion the odd 60*c wash, I dont have allergies, and i change my sheets and towels regularly. my towels dont smell of mildew or come out smelling damp when washed at 40*c. I use a Biological Tablet with Bleach in it, which helps remove the odours.

I dont use the tumble dryer either, i dry my clothes outside on a clothes horse, everything smells nice and fresh :)

I reckon you only need a 60*c wash if your washing heavily soiled items like teatowels (kitchen) and really dirty clothes. 40*c is more than adequate or even 30*c for darks or colours.

Think of saving energy...and the planet =]
 
I only do about one wash a week =]

How on earth do you get away with that and still wear fresh underwear, socks daily not to mention shirts, jeans/trousers/outer tops and washing of towels/ sheets?

 

When single, I would do an average of 3-4 loads a week (lights and darks every 2 weeks...towels every 10 days with whites and sheets weekly).  Admittedly, that was a smaller machine, but I do 5 loads weekly for us with a 6.5kg machine.....

 

But then, maybe you wash your towels and bed linen monthly?
 
me in my case i wash everyday and once a month i wash my bed sheets but i wash them in warm water as my bed sheets are non bleachable and when i go back to a toploading washer here are the wash and rinse temp that i will use normal cycle i will use cold water wash 1 light and no colored clothes cool water temp and bedding warm water i will never use or select the hot water temp unless absolutely needed like recovering from a cold to kill the germ cold other wise the temps i will use are cold water wash cool water wash warm water wash with cold rinse.
 
I do one wash a week =]

Ronhic, most of my clothes are dark or coloured, all my boxers/socks are black, so i dont need to sort them i just stick em all in together, fill the machine up, set it to 30*c and put in a tablet and some conditioner.

My clothes are mostly lightly soiled so never need a hot wash

My towels I use about 3 times before I wash them, after each use I air them out so they dry out, they never smell mildewy, my sheets get washed every 2 weeks as i have quite a few sets.

I also only have a few white clothes, if i need one item but dont have a full load i will handwash it in the sink, and then spin it in the washing machine.

also i try to wear my clothes more than once, apart from socks and underwear which i wear once for hygiene. My t-shirts get worn twice before washing
jeans get washed every 2 months as they dont get dirty and they are black :)
 
Jeans washed every 2 months?

And they dont exfoliate your skin while you wear them, or absorb perspiration or pick up odours from cooking smells or your environment.

Kyle, following recent outbursts by yourself Id suggest you were little more than an attention seeker.

You contradict yourself so many times its embarrassing,

Get a grip for once and stop darn lying.
 
Rob

Its you, you have a massive chip on your shoulder

I do wash my jeans every 2 months, sometimes once every month...im not contradicting myself, and in this blog im only suggesting an opinion, everyone does laundry differently, but i do it in the most ecological way possible. and I look after my clothes.

Rob i suggest you drop your attitude mate, because your really annoying, the only attention seeker is you...and your pathetic!!,

However this is autowashicwasher.org better maintain some decorum and i suggest you get some as well.

Heres some toilet tissue, go and wipe your mouth theres a good man!!
 
Says the one who posted an obscene name on my facebook page. yes quite the grown up aint you?????

Caught out yet again Kyle so I can understand your pride is hurt. Nevermind Il continue about my business, Good Luck.
 
Boilwashes?

An absolute must for cheap clothing, well any clothing that can take it.

Have noticed Next, Burtons, George's and F&F clothing dropping in price and understandably perceptional quality when inspected in shops.

However what we have found is that while they appear to be thinner those £1 and £2 (£8 and above from Next etc) basic white teeshirts from the above retailers actually benefit greatly from always washing on a 95degree cycle.

The weave of the fabric tightens up making a softer closer weave that feel better than the quality of most £20+ garments and the life of the ones I have have been greater than the £40/50 RL T shirts I used to wear and wash on delicate cycles .

Same goes for tea towels I have bought exceptionally cheaply,

Always buy a size larger due to some shrinkage, give it a boilwash before wear and see what you think. They just get better and better the more you boilwash and wear them!
 
your way wrong when you wash your clothes in hot water (*not recomended by the way) shorten the life of the clothes the max temp allowed for hot water wash is 50 degrees max or to use caution me in my case i will always wash in cold water including white if i have some and bedding will always be wash in warm water. So in my case i will never use the hot water temp on my washer.
 

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