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Methinks sooner or later the Whirlpool will be gifted to a family member. So many of my older relatives are downsizing into smaller homes, and would welcome the unit.

American "HE" detergents by and large are the same as their higher sudsing cousins, just a bit of foam control agents added. So it makes sense such detergents have kept their "hit and run" aspects, that is giving good soil and stain removal in a short period of time.

Now if only one could squeeze one of these into my laundry room! *LOL*

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"AFAIK, the only illnesses that could be passed from dogs to humans is hookworms, roundworms and ring worms."

There is also rabies! And while rabies can be prevented by shots, I have known people who have decided "not to bother." As far as I know, none of them had a problem--but that could have changed in a hurry.

Fleas are another possible problem. They're said to be able to carry disease (remember the plague?). Past that, they are just plain annoying.
 
The fleas or the dogs?

The fleas. I live in an area that has a huge flea problem, and it's something all around that many drives people with dogs crazy.

Although, it's fair to say that dogs have their annoying moments. A few years ago, a roommate had foster care dog that would sleep on my bed at night. It truly tiresome explaining night after night: "This is your half, this is my half. We share the bed! You don't get the whole thing!"

Of course, I'm sure dogs would say humans have annoying moments. For example: "That thoughtless human made me take a bath, just because I had fun playing in mud puddles all afternoon!" Or: "That human makes me eat this icky dog food stuff, instead of the GOOD thing HE'S having!"
 
Texas is very bad when it comes to fleas. If you use a good flea preventative and vacuum your home regularly you can keep the fleas away.
I am very allergic to fleas. If I get bit the area swells up a lot. We just switched to Advantage for fleas as Front Line doesn't work anymore. It seems the fleas have adapted.
This entire year I haven't seen a flea on any of our 4 dogs.
 
Borax is a natural killer of fleas and ants. Just sprinkle some onto your carpets and walk around in it to make it go deep into the pile wait for an hour than vaccuum. kills fleas and their eggs. have been doing this for years and no fleas and no collars or drugs on the dogs.
Jon
 
Drugs on Dogs

I am not a big fan of that flea repellant that you apply to the back of the dog's neck. I tried it one time with my dog and it really seemed to irritate him to no end. He stood there looking at me with his head cocked to one side and one of his eyes twitched uncontrollably. I bathed him several times till I thought it was mostly gone. Now I use the medication that you put in his food.

Anyway, the BORAX does work. We used it religously growing up in South Florida. Love that it drove the palmetto bugs away.

Malcolm
 
I can tell you 1950's Bendix front loaders

do clean! I use a warm soak cycle before wash and that seems to take care of most things.
In testing my new detergent "Splash" last month, I set the table with Mom's white linen tablecloth, sure enough a guest spilled a whole ladle of pasta sauce onto it. I let it sit two whole days before attempting a wash in Splash, I used two doses, one for the warm soak cycle and one for the hot wash. It came out brilliant white, partly because of the formulation and partly because of the Bendix front loader with its 20 minute wash cycle. No bleach was used BTW!

So front loaders do clean I feel they do it better than top loaders.
Now as far as rinseing goes with the new HE machines well thats another topic for another thread.
 
Back To The Borax For A Second...

OK, so if Borax is put on the carpet and then vacuumed up with dead fleas, if there are live fleas in the bag, will it still kill the fleas in there? Will there be any need to change to a new bag?

Just curious.
 
no everything should be dead in the bag not only from the borax but nothing can live in a vaccuum i believe. not because of the vaccuum machine itself but the term vaccuum. i think it is impossible for anything to breath in a "vaccuum"
jon
 
Oh I Don't Know About That

Was watching a news show several weeks ago and they covered that "famous" exterminator who is now on cable televison.

A reporter followed said exterminator around on a call to a local home *INFESTED* with roaches. I mean they were under the fridge, behind the fridge, behind painting/photographs hung on the walls, behind cabinets, in cabinets and so forth. Anyway, as part of his arsenal to deal with bugs,the man sprays some sort of attractant then scoops up the roaches as they come out with a vacuum cleaner (carried on his back via a strap). Reporter asked what happens then (with the bugs in the sack), and exterminator replies "you don't want to know", so one assumes the things aren't all dead in that vacuum bag.
 
@whirlcool

My late, beloved Ridgeback (named Korky; passed away Feb 2010 at fourteen years of age) once vomited on the bed's fitted bottom sheet. Soaked through the sheet, the mattress topper, and moistened the mattress pad (did not soak through to mattress. In addition, comforter and cover were soiled, by direct contact with ground zero.

In two loads, I had everything washed and dried and back on the bed. I did have to take the fitten bottom sheet outside and shake off the debris before washing. Of course, this was live as it happened, not a forgotten item in a closet, but I didn't have to go to a laudromat and I did it all at home (in the middle of the night, as this happened about midnight).

The one caveat is that it was summer and I was using a lightweight IKEA synthetic comforter that was only full/queen size. Not warm enough for winter but just right for summer. Had I been using one of the thicker winter-weight king size comforters, I'd have had to go to the laundromat, it won't fit in my 3.5 cu ft Frigidaire (I have a lightweight king size that WILL fit, but not the heavier winter-weight model).

Someday my spider will break and I'll need to go shopping. Most likely one of the 4.0+ cu ft models will accomodate everything that I wash, including king size comforters. However, I'm not the type to throw something out that works. So the current washer---which was mid-size when it was purchased, with 3.7 cu ft WP's being the largest on the market in early 2006---will be the daily driver until such time as the spider fails.
 
Commercial FL Washers

I don't recall ever having poor results from a commercial FL washer. Of course, if you are using a poor detergent or not enough, no machine can make up for that.

Bendix - would like to see a video of the Splash test...

Malcolm
 

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