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Help with white sheets
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mardatha
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I have 2 lovely thick white flannelette sheets that have gone a wee bit dingy. Not grey, but just not brilliant white any more. It says wash at 40 so I can't boil them -- any ideas on what to do? I cannot stand dingy sheets 
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I boil all mine. Flannelette is cotton isn't it?0
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I wash mine at 60 degrees with a scoop of soda crystals in with the washing powder.0
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Bleach?...0
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Boil - they're cotton so can stand it... Lob some soda crystals in as well and that should help.
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Soak them in Napisan - it always made nappies white again and you can still buy it.0
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mar you will turn your sheets into cardboard if you boil them. What about dying them. Tie dye would be fun too. You can do it in the machine on a 40c programme0
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It really annoys me when washing instructions on cotton items say '40 degrees'.
Wash them at 60 regularly.Member #14 of SKI-ers club
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LOL kittie I did that once long ago with sheets- and dyed everything else in the house because I kept forgetting they were dyed and putting other stuff in with them!
I'll try a 60 wash and chuck in some soda crystals - thanks everybody!0 -
Put them out overnight (sopping wet) when a vicious cold frost is due and leave them out there for 24 hours. Should bleach them nicely.
Can't for the life of me work out why pure cotton can't be washed higher than 40, tho.Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
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napisan or curtain whitener will help.
Personally, I'd dye them!LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14Hope to be debt free until the day I dieMortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)0
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