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Washing machine settings

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  • Patchwork_Quilt
    Patchwork_Quilt Posts: 1,839 Forumite
    Thank you very much for that. We have a Bosch Maxx, which I have been very pleased with. I thought I would die of boredom waiting for the standard programme to finish so I always used the quick wash button but the usual temperatures - 40 for most clothes and 60 for bedding and towels - until I started reading MSE. Now, I do everything at 30, usually with Persil non-Bio and vinegar as a softener. Very occasionally, I have to throw a school shirt back in the wash but towels are changed twice a week and sheets once so we don't seem to have any problems there.
  • oldMcDonald
    oldMcDonald Posts: 1,945 Forumite
    basmic wrote: »
    Did an experiment last night - I did a wash with no temperature, then at 30c.

    Both washes contained exactly the same load, and exactly the same wash settings, other than temperatures. I just started the 30c program, once the one with no temperature had finished.

    According to my plug-in meter, the wash with no temperature consumed the following:
    0.124kwh
    0.91p

    The 30c, consumed the following:
    0.505kwh
    3.73p

    So assuming the average household might do one load per day, using exactly the same settings and wash load I have used, they potentially stand to make the following savings every year:
    139.065 Kw/year
    1029.3p or £10.29

    The above costings were based on my secondary tarriff, including VAT - which is actually 7.38465p/Kw, but I have rounded it up to 7.39p for my plugin meter.

    For the sake of £10/year savings, I think I will persist with washing at 30c - but washing my bedding/undies/towels at 60c.

    Those interested, I used a Bosch Logixx 8 WAS32466GB, with the Easy Care wash cycle and Aqua Plus enabled.
    Thanks for the above:)

    I easily get through 3 loads of washing minimum daily ( 7 in the family, one of our children is profoundly disabled and goes though several changes of clothes a day), so the above figures have made interesting reading.:T
  • hi, im after advise on what to wash on 95 degree wash. ive been told that washing cotton on a 95 degree wash is fab for keeping them white and removing common stains that washing at 30 or 40 degree wudnt shift. ive got a small pile of knickered socks and 100% cotton items to wash but im at bit afraid to...does it matter what colour they are, do they have to b compelety white? i normally do everything (except mattress protectors have a plastic backing) on a 60, and my mattress protectors on a 30 as not to melt the plastic backing. does anyone have any advise on this please.
    Thank u all in advance...
  • joedenise
    joedenise Posts: 17,876 Forumite
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    Sorry can't help - haven't done a 95 degree wash since the kids were babies in cloth nappies! I usually wash everything at 40. If you've got stained stuff worth soaking overnight with some biological washing powder and then doing a normal wash.

    Denise
  • Fruball
    Fruball Posts: 5,741 Forumite
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    I've never done a 95d wash in my life!!! LOL

    I wash everything on quick cycle at 30 - I chuck a spoonful of Napisan in if its whites that need a little extra help :)
  • PZH
    PZH Posts: 1,599 Forumite
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    Frugal wrote: »
    I've never done a 95d wash in my life!!! LOL

    I do a 90d wash once in a while - I read somewhere that it cleans the washer and kills germs that 30 - 40 degree washes no longer kill ( and causes unpleasant smells )

    PS: usually with tea towels
    “That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”
  • I have never used the 90 wash on my washer, i used some "glo white" powder from the 99p shop and brings the whites up great on either 30 or 40 short eco wash!
  • redlady_1
    redlady_1 Posts: 1,601 Forumite
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    I have washed my lovely white bedding on 95 after a rogue sock turned everything a funny grey colour. It didnt do it any harm and they are now nice and white again. I did throw in some of that ace bleach too.

    I wash all my dishcloths and teatowels on 95 too.
  • Lovely fluffy white bathtowels ....
    A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.
  • Bronnie
    Bronnie Posts: 4,169 Forumite
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    edited 15 September 2010 at 2:55PM
    Be aware, depending on what you're washing and whether it matters, you could get shrinkage at this temp!
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