How Clean Is You House ... What Was It?

Contains_Mild_Peril

Lemon juice is surely a bit extravagant to use in biggish quantities though?

vivw_2

apparently recommending using one jif lemon only

Seakay

Would this work as well if you had something that needed washing in the machine at the same time as the soda/vinegar? It goes against the grain to do 2 hot washes with an empty machine (what with fuel bills, water shortages etc)

patchwork_cat

Why do people always use white vinegar in w. machines and dishwasher it is much more expensive than value malt?Is there something that I am missing - surely vinegar is vinegar. I know why for cleaning you would use clear.

jcr16

i am going to do this. i always used to wash bedding on a boil once a week. but now everything is done on a 40 i have noticed sometimes the machine does smell. i mentioned it to hubby and he thinks it is a fab idea. i hate the thought of washing clothes in a dirty machine.

sam_i_am

MissScarlett wrote:

Yep definitely soda crystals! Mind you I dont think I could run my machine twice at 95 degrees with nothing in it:eek:

I know, I'd be thinking .... aaargggghhh! Waste of money!

sam_i_am

Well thank you every one!

I'm so pleased there are lots of like minded people who think this kind of thing is important!!

Many thanks to all of you who told me what it was, and to others who suggested other ideas!

Ta muchly

Sam.

sam_i_am

laughing_cow wrote:

That's so funny :rotfl: I watched this the other night and also didn't hear the *something*! I've got Sky Plus so I rewound it twice and still couldn't work out what she was saying so I gave up. I'm not sure whether it was bad sound or that her accent was particularly strong when she said it. I think it might be soda crystals as others have mentioned as her mumbling was about 4 syllables

Glad it's not just me then!

SusanG_3

Hi,

It was washing soda that she used to clean out the washing machine first of all. Then she used white vinegar for the second cycle - both on the hottest wash. Only trouble is, can't remember the quantities used - but I reckon if you look on the back of a box of washing soda, it will probably give you an indication of how much to use for various purposes.

Sue

tawnyowls

Seakay wrote:

Would this work as well if you had something that needed washing in the machine at the same time as the soda/vinegar? It goes against the grain to do 2 hot washes with an empty machine (what with fuel bills, water shortages etc)

I don't see why not - if you're doing teatowels/cloths as in another thread, then you're going to need to do it at 95 deg, so you might as well use the soda crystals and vinegar to wash them at the same time. Can't really see that a half-load of washing is going to make much difference to the cleaning if you've got the cleaning materials in there.

BTW, despite Aggie's pronouncements, it's often not the actual inside of the washing machine that smells - it's the rubber seal and the powder dispenser. The rubber seal needs cleaning regularly with a cloth, and around the edge of the WM window. This programme was a graphic demonstration of just how gross and disgusting the powder dispenser gets. Granted, that woman was a total slattern, but even normal people often forget about that dispenser drawer, and it's all the horrible c**p that builds up behind it that often isn't noticed. I abandoned that years ago in favour of washing balls (which you can usually get for free from the manufacturers), and my WM never seems to smell.