Your washload in pics!

[newwave1]

Hey guys,
I thought this could be a kool idea for a thread, how about everybody post a pic of your machine, in action! and maybe write a piece about the load and your particular habbits? I.e detergent, any particular wash features!!? Like i said could be a cool thread or could just flop! lol just an idea

I'll start things off.

Heres a picture of my latest machine washing towels, i always wash towels on 60degree cotton cycle, with maximum number of rinses and the highest spin. I alternate using liquid and powder detergent!

Also, I would like to ask, how fussy are you at loading? I would like some of your input on what sort of colours you allow to wash together, for example my darks loads, i was blacks, browns, dark blues & greens. Are many of you particular about your load or you just throw it in?!

I hope this thread can go somewhere

Darren

 

[samsungfl]

Hiya

I'll second you this should be a good thread!!! I tend to wash coloured towels on a Colourfast Cottons 60*c wash sometimes with the Time Saver Option and with powder detergent With the lighter coloured towels, I try to give them a boilwash every now and them to keep them bright

However for towels, I think I'll start using the Sensitive Care option on the Hoover! I used it the other day on some coloured washing and it seems to work a treat!! Saturates the load as usual, then once it is satisfied the load is fully soaked, it then tops the water level up do it spreads across the door rubber! Then, a further 5 very high level rinses ( all with intermittent spins) rinse the load very well! A bit excessive for normal washing i.e T-shirts and things, but will be very beneficial when it comes to washing towels I'd imagine

Richard

 

[samsungfl]

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Washing - Colourfast 60c

 

[funguy10]

Newwave1, could you post more pics of your washer. It looks interesting.

 

[dj-gabriele]

Wow, nice pictures!

Now here I with mine:
here you can admire the beauty of my dirty clothes (half of them still smelling good from the gym).

That's my averange load and yes, I'm picky about colours and materials. Everything is very dark and everything is cotton. The flash makes appear the t-shirt lighter than they really are.

 

[dj-gabriele]

Here is the loaded washing machine. There won't be any running pictures because there is a double glass and the outer one is dark, you can barely see what's inside.

I'm using a 30°C cotton wash (5 rinses each with spin) with Dixan Tabs (Italian Persil) and OminoBianco igenizzante (Hygenizing powder) plus Vernel classic scent softner.

The machine isn't always that dirty but my flatmate washed a carpet and din't care to dust off the machine so everything is disgusting. Hopefully I use the other (much cleaner) bathroom.

 

[dj-gabriele]

Oh Darren, I love that Hotpoint Ultima!!! It just bothers me that the Ariston name is going to be phased out in favour of it!!

Also your Hoover looks great Richard, it's a nice machine, it looked nice in the shop when I saw it!

 

[newwave1]

Awesome! What a great start! Thanks for contributing guys!

Funguy, i will hopefully take more pictures today as its my laundry day and i'm off work!

Djgabrielle, im really envious of your philco! It reminds me alot of my grandmothers old bendix! I loved that machine!

Hers looked like this one but it had a 2nd row of 3 buttons underneath! & was 1000rpm! Man i loved that machine!

Darren

 

[dj-gabriele]

The Philco is a fine machine, washes well and rinses better, the only pain is the spinning, only 600 rpm!!!
If you like we can swap I get the Ultima and you the Philco LOL
It came with the flat, it was the only appliance not being brand new, I guess mine is from 1993, isn't it?

 

[newwave1]

dj-gabriele-Its a nice looking machine! so even with flash on a camara we couldn't see an action shot? I'll keep the hotpoint

Are the rinses really high? Ahhh yes the low spin, our edesa machine in spain spins at 800rpm like most automatics did here in the 80s and the aspes machine we had before was only 600rpm! Its funny the washing comes out warm with the cold water not being particularly cold!

Guys please contribute to this thread! It could be really good!!!!

Thankyoooou

Darren

 

[vivalalavatrice]

GABRI!

Un bucato meravigliosamente colorato...ma quanti chili porta la tua Philco da rimanere ancora spazio?

It's really a big load in my habits, honestly I can fit such many garments at once...at least there won't be any space left in the drum!

BENE! I'll soon post mine as soon it'll stop raining...this weekend? I hope!!
Diomede

 

[dubstar85]

Great idea!

I just put on my red bedding just a min ago and took a couple of photos. I always am wary of colours and seperate them into darks, lights and whites. I pretty much wash every day becasue Charles' has only got three shirts for his work and I only have two pairs of trousers. The shirts are light blue and the trousers are dark blue. I end up doing lights twice a week, darks three times a week and towels another day and bedding the day i'm not doing anything else. The cat sleeps on the bed so it gets washed alot more than it should! Recently we got new bedding. We got into Nip/Tuck and Christian's bed is red and Charles thought "What a great idea!" so off to tescos we went and got some. When i washed it for the first time i done it on 60 degrees and it dyed the washing machine red :-( So now i stick it on 60* with the eco button and intensive rinse because i always put a bit extra powder in with the reduced temperature. Heres the machine and what i use for everything cept hand washables...

 

[dubstar85]

and heres the wash load five minutes into the cycle

 

[newwave1]

Thanks for contributing dubstar! How pleased are you with that whirlpool?!

Heres some pictures of my hotpoint doing aload of colours with a trade box of ariel i've just bought and lenor on cotton 40!

Darren

 

[newwave1]

Tumbling away!

 

[newwave1]

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[newwave1]

Close up 2

 

[dubstar85]

Glad to see you like the same fabric softner lol! The whirlpools okay I guess. The machine was a noisy beast till I sat there one day and leveled it and its pretty smooth and stable. I never much cared for the noise of the motor though, its very whiney! The rinsing is alot better than the Indesit we had in our old flat. The whirlpool saturates the clothes then fills up with a bit more, the baffles are every effective at getting the water around! The indesit never used that much water and if you were washing more than a half load it would sudslock with most loads :-/

Your Ultima looks very handsome in the kitchen!

David

 

[lavamat78800]

My foto lovestory...LOL

Hey,

Today I had a load of whites:
Towels, kitchen towels, underwear and other stuff.