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The Complete Laundry and Clothes Collection

Alisonpennypincher
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This post is going to be a complete collection of ALL Laundry and Clothes threads here on Old Style.
Please do not add any posts or questions into this Index Thread, but do your best to choose from the many threads below, one which is most closely related to your query and by all means join that one.
Please do not add any posts or questions into this Index Thread, but do your best to choose from the many threads below, one which is most closely related to your query and by all means join that one.
- Work in progress, but there may be a link here to help you, if not check back soon :wave:
Clothes:
- Alien Gloop
- Apple juice
- Baby Stains
- Biro from cotton
- Black grease/grime on white skirt
- Blackberry stain!
- Bleach - how to get it out?
- Blood on white shirt
- Candle grease and candle wax
- Cat sick on striped shirt
- Chewing gum on jeans
- Cigarette smell after washing
- Coat - Leather coat smells of the pub
- Coat - Leather coat with sheepskin collar
- Coat - Musty smell
- Collar and Cuff Dirt
- Cotton top - Rust stains
- Cuprinol
- Decking oil on cream trousers
- Denim in with whites, help!
- Deodarant/sweat stain removal from clothes
- Dress shirt - best way to clean?
- Dry cleaning - can I launder?
- Dye - colour run disaster
- Dye run - bleach?
- Dye run - green
- Dye run on whites - now pink
- Fajita sauce on white top
- Fake tan on top
- Felt tip pen
- Fleece Washing
- Fluff removal
- Fluffy Jumper washing
- Glue on clothes
- Greasy marks on clothes?
- Grease on white t-shirt
- Ink - black ink on whites
- Jeans - new ones dyed everything else
- New jeans stained
- Jumper - How to get biro off a jumper?
- Jumper advice after shrinking
- Laundry - hints and tips
- Mud out of a football/sports kit?
- Nail varnish on trousers
- Net curtains white the OS way?
- Oil/fat stain on garment
- Oil - motor oil
- Olive oil
- Paint - White gloss paint
- Paint from kids clothes
- Permanent marker
- Perspiration
- Perspiration marks
- Pollen
- Red wine stain on white top
- Rust stains
- Silk - dryclean only silk skirt and top?
- Skirt - Candle wax
- Skirt - Coffee
- Stain removal naturally (sunlight)
- Sun tan oil on trousers
- Suncream stain polyester shirt
- Super Glue
- Tea stains
- Ties
- T-shirt, damp, smelly and stained
- Tomato sauce on t-shirt
- Top - mould stains
- Trousers - pritt stick glue
- Urine stains
- Wax on towel
- Wedding dress handwashing advice needed
- Whites - bright whites?
- Whitening old style
- Whites dyed grey - help!
- White shorts fiasco
- White spot on dry clean only suit
- Wool - Remove body odour smell from wool?
- Apple juice
- Baby Stains
- Biro from cotton
- Black grease/grime on white skirt
- Blackberry stain!
- Bleach - how to get it out?
- Blood on white shirt
- Candle grease and candle wax
- Cat sick on striped shirt
- Chewing gum on jeans
- Cigarette smell after washing
- Coat - Leather coat smells of the pub
- Coat - Leather coat with sheepskin collar
- Coat - Musty smell
- Collar and Cuff Dirt
- Cotton top - Rust stains
- Cuprinol
- Decking oil on cream trousers
- Denim in with whites, help!
- Deodarant/sweat stain removal from clothes
- Dress shirt - best way to clean?
- Dry cleaning - can I launder?
- Dye - colour run disaster
- Dye run - bleach?
- Dye run - green
- Dye run on whites - now pink
- Fajita sauce on white top
- Fake tan on top
- Felt tip pen
- Fleece Washing
- Fluff removal
- Fluffy Jumper washing
- Glue on clothes
- Greasy marks on clothes?
- Grease on white t-shirt
- Ink - black ink on whites
- Jeans - new ones dyed everything else
- New jeans stained
- Jumper - How to get biro off a jumper?
- Jumper advice after shrinking
- Laundry - hints and tips
- Mud out of a football/sports kit?
- Nail varnish on trousers
- Net curtains white the OS way?
- Oil/fat stain on garment
- Oil - motor oil
- Olive oil
- Paint - White gloss paint
- Paint from kids clothes
- Permanent marker
- Perspiration
- Perspiration marks
- Pollen
- Red wine stain on white top
- Rust stains
- Silk - dryclean only silk skirt and top?
- Skirt - Candle wax
- Skirt - Coffee
- Stain removal naturally (sunlight)
- Sun tan oil on trousers
- Suncream stain polyester shirt
- Super Glue
- Tea stains
- Ties
- T-shirt, damp, smelly and stained
- Tomato sauce on t-shirt
- Top - mould stains
- Trousers - pritt stick glue
- Urine stains
- Wax on towel
- Wedding dress handwashing advice needed
- Whites - bright whites?
- Whitening old style
- Whites dyed grey - help!
- White shorts fiasco
- White spot on dry clean only suit
- Wool - Remove body odour smell from wool?
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Laundry:
- Advice on washing machine temperatures- Be Canny With Fabric Softener- Drying jumpers flat (and indoor drying)
- Blood stain removal
- Calgon Limescale and Landfill
- Chintz Curtain Cleaning
- Cold washing your laundry
- Colour run cloths - cheaper alternative?
- Colouring velvet?
- Colour running from clothes - how to stop it
- Collar and Cuff Grime - The Final Solution
- Crusty jeans
- Curry stain
- Curtains washing dry clean only
- Drying washing indoors- Duvet - Washing and drying a duvet- Oil of eucalyptus - for stain removal
- Dye bleeding - tip to monitor
- Eco Balls (wash balls) (laundry balls)
- Fabric Conditioner - home made?
- Fabric Freshener - Any Ideas on a cheap version?
- Fabric softener warning
- Folding clothes before hanging out to dry
- General stains out of clothes
- Hard water?
- Hardened washing powder
- Home made laundry stain remover
- How much vinegar and soda crystals to use?
- If only they knew
- Ironing Soleplate - cleaning stubborn sticky deposits
- Ironing Day (tips)
- Ironing emergency!!!!!
- Ironing - descaling irons
- Ironing - sheets
- Ironing - Silver marks on black trousers!
- Ironing - Sweet smelling clothes
- Ironing - Very Creased Curtain fabric
- Keeping whites white and blacks black
- Linen trousers - dry clean or wash?
- Making towels soft
[post=385151]- Mould/Mildew removal[/post]
- Mildew - tried everything!
- Nappy stains
- Net curtains white the OS way
- Net laundry bags for delicates
- Net Curtains - removal of mould
- Oil/fat stain on garment- Pegging out sheets
- Quick washing by machine
- Rose water
- Silk tie ruined
- Smell after being trapped in Washing Machine
- Smelly washing
- Soda Crystals
- Soften very stiff fabric?
- Softening material?
- Spin and spin again
- Static in laundry removing
- Sweet smelling laundry? (machine)
- T-shirts shrinking!
- Tea towels - keeping them white?
- Trainers in the washing machine
- Vinegar as fabric conditioner
- Vinegar used as Conditioner (again)
- Does using Vinegar affect absorbency
- Vinegar = acetic acid? (non brewed condiment)
- Washing machine- Cleaning inside
- Washing line or rotary
- Washing powder - explained
- Washing powder versus liquid
- Washing powder - Is twin tub powder different to regular?.0 -
Websites and useful links:
Allergy sensitive cleaning tipshttp://www.tipking.co.uk (Lots of general tips and hints on here)
http://www.surf.co.uk/loving_your_la...ur_symbols.htm
http://www.inspection1.com/buyer/stain.htm
http://www.dylon.co.uk/main.htm (dyes, stain removal and whitening)
Laundry labels - what they mean
The World's Longest List of Uses for Vinegar
http://www.wen.org.uk/health/Report...g_factsheet.pdf (OS cleaning factsheet)
http://www.tefal.co.uk/tefal/product...oval/index.asp
http://www.soda-crystals.co.uk/0
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