Clothes washed with cardboard, help please

jem1276

I have washed a dark load and accidentally picked up some cardboard at the same time. All the washing is covered in little fibres and my hubby's only 2 pair of work trousers seem ruined.

I have washed them 3 times, once on a long wash but they are still covered.

Does anyone have any advice to see if they can be rescued?

Thanks x

suzeesu2000

Try putting them, one pair at a time in the tumble dryer, you should find a lot of the "fluff" comes off into the filter.

Other idea might be like I do when kitty lays on hubby's T-shirt: get a rubber washing up glove and thoroughly wipe the fluffy bits off the clothing, works really well with animal hair & tissues so good luck with your cardboard.

Own_My_Own

suzeesu2000 wrote: »

Try putting them, one pair at a time in the tumble dryer, you should find a lot of the "fluff" comes off into the filter.

Other idea might be like I do when kitty lays on hubby's T-shirt: get a rubber washing up glove and thoroughly wipe the fluffy bits off the clothing, works really well with animal hair & tissues so good luck with your cardboard.

Was going to say tumble dryer. Sellotape will also get the fluff off.

*zippy*

I was going to say too keep washing, drying and giving a good shake outside, a bit more will come off each time. If you have one try a clothes brush too. Hope you can sort them.

Debran

I too would recommend the tumble drier method. I've used this idea when tissues have accidentally been washed with clothing.

Miss_Purple_Hat

My trousers and top recently got extremely covered in fluff. I bought a cheap lint roller from Tesco (about £1). It took a lot of rolling and lots of sticky sheets but I managed to get it all off and the lint roller is still good for quite a few more uses. Cost the equivalent of less than 20p.

savemoney

You can get roller things that have tape on and that may remove some of it they fairly cheap to get

oops cross post as above

blossomhill_2

I agree tumble drier but put a wettish piece of lint free material in too, it seems to help
If the trousers are a fabric that shouldn't be tumble dried or woudl shrink, take out while still quite damp
Good luck

Chris25

if you don't have a tumble dryer, you could try the clothes brush & follow up with cellotape - you use loads but it is good at getting tissue fibres off clothes.

jem1276

Thanks all :beer:Rescued with a combination of all the above :j