Laundry Q - What is a 'darks' wash?

barrmill

Pigpen, glad I'm not the only OCD one about sorting the colours! As for your blacks fading every few weeks I do the black jeans and t shirts with some of the dylon black wash in dye - its really easy and I do a second black wash rather than running the machine empty.

Jedilibrarian

Hi Lauren
For a 'darks' wash I'd normally put Black, Brown and Dark Grey together. I tend to do a Blue wash with jeans, blues and I'd throw greens and pale grays in with these too. Then a 'whites', and a 'lights' with light blue, yellow, cream, etc and a 'brights' with reds, orange, pinks together.
Anything new I'd wash separately the first time incase of runs. I shove all my towels in together regardless of colour once I'm sure they don't run.
Hope this helps!
JL

ecsb

ok, a bit off track but do you put light underwear- knickers etc in with light flannels, teatowels etc?

nearlyrich

I do a dark underwear and a light underwear wash, a white wash then all the strong colours together then all the lights then towels and bedding separately. Sometimes the underwear goes in with the corresponding clothes wash depending on how much there is. I use Arial because my son is allergic to everything else and they do a colour version which I use for most of the wash. I put Oxy stuff (from Aldi) in with the whites and lights.

nesssie1702

I do a dark wash for all black, grey and navy clothes; a white wash for white and pale clothes; an inbetween wash for everything else. Saying that though, my towels get washed separately, as I don't use fabric conditioner with them (love rough towels in this house!). Bedding also gets done as a separate wash and is done at 60 ºC.

I'll lob the underwear into the appropriate dark or white or inbetween wash, depending on the colour!

Jedilibrarian

ecsb wrote: »

ok, a bit off track but do you put light underwear- knickers etc in with light flannels, teatowels etc?

I suppose you could unless they are very delicate? I normally just put them in with the corresponding colour wash.

Wonder_Girl

This thread is great! Finally somewhere I can talk about how to sort laundry, and other people will actually listen! :rotfl:



I do a;

White wash - undies, shirts, socks, tea towels
Red wash – Red, pink, purple's
Blue wash – Blue, Green, grey's
Black wash – Trousers, shirts, undies, socks etc
Denim wash
Bed linen and towels get done separately on the hottest wash, everything else at 30.

Now if somebody could teach this to my husband……:rolleyes:

tsstss7

I'm not obsessive about it or anything but I try and do

Blacks wash - with colour care detergent or soap nuts.
darks wash - older blacks, dark blues, browns, - with colour care or soap nuts.
darker/more vibrant colours - ditto colour care etc
lighter colours/white mixes. - normal powder
whites 60/90 degree wash 9helps to clean the machine too.

I mix reds in with darks/ darker colours unless I have enough to do a wash and then do reds and pinks together.

Sometimes I mix and chuck in a colour care sheet but I'm not convinced the colour care sheet makes much difference as I've had a white sock in the wash by accident when I used one and it still came out a bit coloured )

SunnyGirl

I do a lights wash at 60 degrees which is everything white or pale coloured, including tea towels & flannels, and a darks wash at 40 degrees which is anything darker than whats gone into the lights IYSWIM?

Towels & bedding tend to get done together in a couple of loads at 60 degrees.

Underwear gets put in the corresponding colour pile.

My DH gets very confused that I'll put a pale grey t shirt thats been washed many times in a lights wash & he'll always put it in darks :rotfl:I suppose its just a case of what you know will or won't run, how old the item is & how many times its been washed before.

Chopsie&Chelvis

Wow, Thank you everyone - I think I get it now! I don't have anywhere near as much washing as some ladies as it's just me and hubby, so can't organise by as many colours, but I'll start doing darks and lights washes rather than 'everything', and probably a red too (it's my fav colour, so loads of red clothes).

I nominate this advice for post of the month :rotfl:Just tickled me, that's my sort of advice!

newlywed wrote: »

For stuff that is striped or multi coloured - squint - if it looks the same tone as the rest of your washing pile chuck it in

Thank you so much everyone :T!