I rescued three shirts with underarm staining

[tomturbomatic]

I was going through the closet and pulling things to donate and found three short sleeve Land's End shirts. They are no-iron cotton/poly Oxford cloth in that light blue color. When I held them up to the light, I noticed some yellowing under the arms. Figuring I had nothing to lose, I smeared some of the Shout gel in the dark blue tube on the stained areas, waited a while then put them in the Miele W1986. I selected Cottons, 140F and extended wash. I used about 1.5 Tbs of powder Tide HE, more than 2 Tbs of STPP and about 1 Tbs of oxygen bleach. The WASH portion of the cycle lasted for over an hour before the rinsing sequence and when I took them out of the dryer, they looked like new.

These shirts are about 8 years old. I date them by the fact that I washed them in the WP Duet and one time when I took them out I found a rip in the front tail, down near the extra buttons, of one of them. I don't know what caused it. I stayed with the Duet the whole time so I would have noticed it if it were caught in the door. Anyway, it was still wearable and did not get any worse.

Hooray for Chemicals. Hooray for Miele. Hooray for me.

 

[aldspinboy]

That is fantastic Tom theres nothing like a Euro washer with graduated heating from cold to set temp.

No pictures lol.

Here are a pair off socks that I got nasty while doing the garden my sneakers got wet and and my socks got in the mud lol.

Washed in the Asko at 175f with other extra soiled whites.

Pre-washed...

with All HE liqued.

Second wash with 1/4th cup of Tide with bleach HE powder with Three large tablespoons of Borax.

At 175f .

Before ...

 

 

[aldspinboy]

After.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Darren k

 

[tomturbomatic]

Thank you Darren, but my washers do not start out with cold. They will blend cold water with the 140F hot fill unless I delberately fill them with the 80F minimum cold supplied to them and then set the dial for heating to a higher temp. I think part of the magic of the 220 volt European washers is being able to have a long heated wash with the proper chemicals.