Cleaning Lego

warmhands.coldheart

pinkteapot wrote: »

Mesh bags for putting delicate items (eg tights) in the washing machine are commonplace....

+1.
I have two of them of differing sizes. Great for doing delicates like Tights, Bras, kids Ballet stuff etc that needs a bit of protection.

I've used both a mesh bag as above and a pillow case (for little tiny bits) before with lego on a cool delicates wash.... (I can set my washing machine down to 20 Deg C) and it worked OK. Not 100% on all bits but on most it was spot on..

iammumtoone

I have purchased lots of second hand lego for my son. My cleaning method is to chuck it all in the bath with hot water and some biological washing liquid leave it to soak giving it a mix round every now and again.

Rinse well and drain water and try to get as much water off the lego as you can whilst still in the bath. Use a sieve to take out and put onto a large towel and dry as much as possible then put onto a fresh towel spread out and leave to air dry.

When my son was young and I was buying second hand dulplo I would repeat the above with soaking in Milton.

The sorting of it is the boring bit, I don't know an easy way to do this but I found it isn't too bad if done in the evening whilst watching a fav tv program.

Good luck it really is worth the effort when you think how much lego is to buy new,

SanguineSteve

Why would want to 'sort' Lego? Surely rummaging through a big box of it for that one piece you want is half the game?

As above, let it soak in the bath for a few hours, rinse clean, dry. Bish bash bosh.

System

Put it in the washing machine inside a tied up pilllow case on a cold wash! Thank me later

Someone already said it, i should read all replies before i post lol

iammumtoone

SanguineSteve wrote: »

Why would want to 'sort' Lego? Surely rummaging through a big box of it for that one piece you want is half the game?

Because in a bundle of second hand lego, it will not all be lego!! It really does need to be sorted through to make sure it is safe as depending on the age of the child there could be something you may not want them to be playing with.