Red wine stain help!

pixie1

Gigervamp wrote: »

I think you might have set the stain by washing them on a hot wash.

I think youre right Ive tried loads of diff stain products and it still wont come out. I really thought i was doing the right thing by putting them in a hot wash

Thanks

Pix

esmf73

Dye them - dye them black then although the stain will still be there it will be the same colour and not so noticeable.

If you're going to do this you could try bleaching them first to ensure that the colour of the stain comes out.

Hope this helps

davetaylor

Help!

My flatmate kicked over a full glass of wine last night all over a new laminate floor. Without really thinking I ran to the kitchen and grabbed to towels out of laundry basket and used them to mop up the wine.

The towels were lovely, huge white bath towels.

I have boil washed them twice now and even added some vanish and you can still see wine stains. Any advice as to how to get them back to lovely and white again. I was thinking about washing them again but adding some bleach to the washing machine. Would that do the trick or do you have any other ideas?

purpleivy

davetaylor wrote: »

Help!

My flatmate kicked over a full glass of wine last night all over a new laminate floor. Without really thinking I ran to the kitchen and grabbed to towels out of laundry basket and used them to mop up the wine.

The towels were lovely, huge white bath towels.

I have boil washed them twice now and even added some vanish and you can still see wine stains. Any advice as to how to get them back to lovely and white again. I was thinking about washing them again but adding some bleach to the washing machine. Would that do the trick or do you have any other ideas?

I would try COlour run. IT's a dylon product I believe.

frankie1star

try soaking in oxyclean, and agitate well, whilst its soaking, then put some in the wash too.

davetaylor

Hi, ok, I will try and get some oxyclean later. Going to have to do it in the bath as the towels are too big for a bucket! So is bleach in the washing machine a bad idea then?

floyd

Bleach causes rubber to perish and become brittle so the seals on your machine could get damaged, also its hard to make sure all traces of bleach have been removed from the drum

charlies-aunt

Try soaking them in diluted Milton Fluid [or supermarket own brand equivilent] - it brings white cotton fabrics really well and has a bleach-like action on stains.

cranbornekat

You could also try soaking the stain with lemon juice and then rubbing in salt and wash as normal. Works well if the stain is relatively new.

davetaylor

Still not got this sorted yet as the oxyclean was a bit expensive. The milton fluid seemed more reasonable though. Has anyone else tried this on dark stains?

Dave