lederstiefel1
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Hello to all of you!
I (or we) do wash cold now for more than two years in our SpeedQueen and never had any problems with it even on stained tablecloths as we pre-treat them with Ace (oxygene-bleach) or add oxy clean to the water. Very stubborn stains I pretreat with a weak solution of Dan Clorix (chlorine bleach) but that happens not very often. Dirty and grimy articles I pretreat with a spray (Sil) or rub on some bar-soap. Then first we prepare the suds by diluting the full amount of detergent recommended for the amount of washing and load-size completely in the lowest water-level available, switch off the machine and load the washing, pressing them down to absorb the liquid completely. Then we soak the items for 15-60 minutes, so that the highly concentrated solution can act in breaking up the dirt. After the soak we fill to the required level and let the machine run through the adequate cycle.
We use ARIEL compact powder and now for two weeks the brand new ARIEL ACTIVE COLD-WASH powder - the first cold-washing powder in Germany! For coloured items we use ARIEL COLOR LIQUID and for delicates we have PERWOLL.
We have soft water here in Leverkusen and do not suffer from built-ups of scale or so. Cheap powders we can't use as they do give poor results in cold water or will not dissolve completely in cold water.
But even we use some hot water in the machine in cold winterdays when cold water is icy-cold; unfortunately there's no hot-water outlet in German laundry rooms at all, so we have to carry 1 or 2 buckets of hot water down to the basement in wintertime from the first floor...
Usually we don't have oily or greasy items to wash and if so, we would probably give it a cycle in our German MATURA FL at 60°C or so.
Electricity has become tremendously expensive compared to other countries here in Germany - 15-20 Euro-cents/kwh is quiet normal here and there's a big discussion going on in Germany to change the law for the energy-concerns which betray the state as well as their clients as they have the monopole on electricity here. Even water is very expensive: 3,50 Euros or more are absolutely normal here for one cubicmeter (1.000 liters)!
So, you can understand why everybody tries to avoid unnescessary usage of both!
Ralf
I (or we) do wash cold now for more than two years in our SpeedQueen and never had any problems with it even on stained tablecloths as we pre-treat them with Ace (oxygene-bleach) or add oxy clean to the water. Very stubborn stains I pretreat with a weak solution of Dan Clorix (chlorine bleach) but that happens not very often. Dirty and grimy articles I pretreat with a spray (Sil) or rub on some bar-soap. Then first we prepare the suds by diluting the full amount of detergent recommended for the amount of washing and load-size completely in the lowest water-level available, switch off the machine and load the washing, pressing them down to absorb the liquid completely. Then we soak the items for 15-60 minutes, so that the highly concentrated solution can act in breaking up the dirt. After the soak we fill to the required level and let the machine run through the adequate cycle.
We use ARIEL compact powder and now for two weeks the brand new ARIEL ACTIVE COLD-WASH powder - the first cold-washing powder in Germany! For coloured items we use ARIEL COLOR LIQUID and for delicates we have PERWOLL.
We have soft water here in Leverkusen and do not suffer from built-ups of scale or so. Cheap powders we can't use as they do give poor results in cold water or will not dissolve completely in cold water.
But even we use some hot water in the machine in cold winterdays when cold water is icy-cold; unfortunately there's no hot-water outlet in German laundry rooms at all, so we have to carry 1 or 2 buckets of hot water down to the basement in wintertime from the first floor...
Usually we don't have oily or greasy items to wash and if so, we would probably give it a cycle in our German MATURA FL at 60°C or so.
Electricity has become tremendously expensive compared to other countries here in Germany - 15-20 Euro-cents/kwh is quiet normal here and there's a big discussion going on in Germany to change the law for the energy-concerns which betray the state as well as their clients as they have the monopole on electricity here. Even water is very expensive: 3,50 Euros or more are absolutely normal here for one cubicmeter (1.000 liters)!
So, you can understand why everybody tries to avoid unnescessary usage of both!
Ralf