Do You Wash Everything on the Same Setting?

Grenage

You guys make me feel like I'm washing wrong!

I wash a karate gi on cold, and everything else on a 30c cotton cycle. I do a 95c wash once a month empty.

theonlywayisup

We use a Miele which has everything from a 20 minute wash to short/long, dark/light cycles and all have individual settings to increase/decrease the temperature, time, stain removal/soiling degree and spin.

suki1964

I wash light colours on 40

Jeans etc at 60

Husbands work clothes on a pre wash as well as main at 60

Bedding, towels, tea towels at 60

Undies 40 short wash

Woollens at 30 short wash

getmore4less

I don't care how long a wash takes, load go away and do something else if I need it at a special time use the delay timer.

Can comfortably(if hanging around the house) do 3 full 8kg eco washes(3hr) and dried(2hr) in a day that's around 4 weeks clothes for one person.

Total time at machines 10-15 mins(if washing is presorted into bins)

Extra washes on the other weeks
Bed linen, towels, dirty work wear(garden/car) etc.

Get a 12kg machine and you need loads of stuff to do full loads(60 shirts)

worried_jim

theEnd wrote: »

Just a big button that says 'wash' would do.
Never worked out what all the settings are. Everything goes on the 40C, 1hr wash.

Brilliant! Being a single man I had no idea about wash programs and complained to a girlfriend about my whites not being very white and she told me to wash them on a hot cottons wash @ 90c and bingo!

I now use hot white with a scoop of vanish as pre-wash for towels and bedding.

If I am in I use the 30 min quick wash, and if I am going out I use the 40c AAA wash- but it takes 2 hours+ as I don't want to listen to it.

Who knew that these programs could make such a difference.

missbiggles1

theonlywayisup wrote: »

We use a Miele which has everything from a 20 minute wash to short/long, dark/light cycles and all have individual settings to increase/decrease the temperature, time, stain removal/soiling degree and spin.

But do you actually use most of them - that's the point of the question.

getmore4less

worried_jim wrote: »

Brilliant! Being a single man I had no idea about wash programs and complained to a girlfriend about my whites not being very white and she told me to wash them on a hot cottons wash @ 90c and bingo!

I now use hot white with a scoop of vanish as pre-wash for towels and bedding.

If I am in I use the 30 min quick wash, and if I am going out I use the 40c AAA wash- but it takes 2 hours+ as I don't want to listen to it.

Who knew that these programs could make such a difference.

You won't need the 90c for everything, if using bio the longer washes just give the enzines more time to do their work in the reduced water of modern machines.

Norman_Castle

I use either 40 or 60 depending on how dirty I guesstimate things are and occasionally use other programmes when needed. Thats what they are there for.
I've still got the manual for my machine which explains which programmes to use. Manufacturers design washing programmes to give the best results. Why ignore them?
I always use the longer programmes as they are designed to match shorter washes at lower temperatures. I don't care if they take hours I just carry on and do other things. I call it multitasking.

theEnd

Should I be washing bedding, towels, tea towels higher than 40C?
These are things I really should know!!

manda1205

theEnd wrote: »

Should I be washing bedding, towels, tea towels higher than 40C?
These are things I really should know!!

Yep. Well I do anyway. You won't kill bugs on a 40, so has to be higher. Considering the things you do with ^ items, I like to know I've got them as clean as I can.