Cleaning grubby Lego - ideas please

jrrowleyws

hehe, looks like jos beat me to it!
Great minds think alike!

lil_me

Yeah if you pull the ends of the towel together to make a sack as such, and give it a good shake, gets some of the excess off.

mrsmortenharket

ahhh never thought of that lil_me!

Lisa x

allIcouldwishfor

When ours gets left out in the garden and needs a clean up I let the kids play with it while they are in the bath!

kethry

OH has a LOT of lego (his family decided to put together all his models (mostly star wars lego models) when he was a teenager and it took them two weeks of working :eek: (and most of it is still in the netherlands, i dread his mom and dad handing them over to us!) .. so i asked him.

he said best way is to put it in a pillow case in the washing machine, *not* on a hot wash, on a cool wash. delicates would be good as well. don't use a laundry bag because the holes are quite big and some of the lego pieces are very small. Be warned though - it makes a helluva racket.

HTH

keth
xx

kittiwoz

When my parents wanted to clean my old Sticklebricks before handing it doen to my cousin they put them in a big pan of boiling water for 10 mins. They weren't really grubby though. It was more that they needed sterilizing.

RoCas

Cover them with cream and let the cat at 'em :-)

Penelope_Penguin

carly wrote:

I have washed it in a pillow case in the washing machine. Just make sure you tie a tight knot at the open end. It comes out spotless.

We inherited DH's lego from the in-laws' loft. That was what we did too, and it really worked.

I then put it onto a towel and air dried it overnight.

Penny. x

liney

Personally i would use a Milton tablet if you will be soaking it in the bath just to be sure.

mamashaz

Morning and thanks for all the suggestions!

We did the large bases in the dishwasher last night and I am going to put some more in a pillow case in the washing machine in a few minutes. The bath method seems like a lot of hard work especially as I have a temperamental back which doesn't like bending over. I am sure the children would like the bath method best but I fear the house would be flooded! Now they are at school I can run the washing machine and only I will have to worry about the terrible noise it is bound to make!