Do you wash your washing again if rained on?

Barneysmom

Bring it in and load up the clothes horse.
My neighbour left hers out all week, the fabric must be rotting

jcr16

if i have got it in very quickly and it is hasn't got very much rain on then i will bring it in and dry it. but if got too wet then i will wash it again, as rain down here always seem it be gritty and grimy. only have to see how mucky ya windows get after it has rained.

Torry_Quine

If I'm at home at home I'll dash out and get it and may pop it in the dryer for a few minutes to finish off. If it has got soaked then it will be spun first. Have never thought of rewashing it!

Rarely happens though as I watch the forecast and they tend to be fairly accurate.

morganlefay

Unless it's very sunny and clearly not going to rain, or wonderfully windy I do my drying on heated rack now for pennies - and much less than dryer. Not as nice as fresh-air dried, but if you have to go out and don't want the washing rained on it's a complete wonder ! (And OH hates the sight of washing drying - can't think why, he has more shirts in the wash than anything else)

zippychick

Hi Moneysavinguser

I was always brought up to rewash it ! :eek: Ill link you to a previous thread discussing the same thing, and merge this later once you get more input

Do you wash your washing again if rained on?

thanks
Zip

notjustlaura

To my shame, it's over a year since I hung washing on the line to dry. I live on a steep hill and, before I lost weight, it was just too hard to do. I realise, reading the OS boards that it's time to start doing it again which will be lovely - line-dried bed-sheets and scrummy and it'll be so nice not to have washing drying in the living room (I've been too mean to use the TD much).

CCP

For me it depends on how close to dry the washing was - if it's just come out of the machine I tend to leave it, but if it's nearly dry I'll run out and fetch it.

I never bother re-washing if it gets wet, either - I've never noticed any difference when it's been rained on, so I can't see the point. (Yes, I'm a lazy so-and-so! )

Confuzzled

CCP wrote: »

I never bother re-washing if it gets wet, either - I've never noticed any difference when it's been rained on, so I can't see the point. (Yes, I'm a lazy so-and-so! )

i don't think you're lazy, i think you're practical. if you've never seen anything that makes you feel it needs rewashing then why bother?

i don't rewash mine, mind you if they were out for several days in the rain (don't know why i'd let that happen but if i did) i'd probably wash them then but here it's just reasonably clean water!

i'll grab what's mostly dry if i catch it, if not, well it will get dry eventually outside... my airer is broken so all it would do in the house is moulder!

btw anyone got the link for the really good heated airer? i'm considering getting one for this winter as i have to replace mine anyway

blueberrypie

Depends on how much rain I expect and how dry the washing is. If it's only just onto the line and it doesn't look like a downpour, I'd probably leave it. On the other hand if it's nearly dry, I'll bring it in.

I wouldn't re-wash laundry that had got wet on the line either - it's only an extra rinse!

johnjay_3

I usually run out and bring mine in. My neighbour leaves hers out, when we've had a lovely day, her washing will be dry (as mines is) she leaves it overnight, it gets rained on so she leaves it out.....for days.