ACE laundry bleach disaster!

batterseadog

Bleach is just that and it should never be put neat onto any fabric as it will burn the fibres. I doubt there is any dye or whitener that will help, your mum has scorched the fabric.
If working on a fruit stain again, wet the area and then apply the bleach with a toothbrush to work along the fibres. The minute it fades, dunk it in water and re-assess if that needs repeating.
Slowly and in small stages, its not the bleach fault, just a hard lesson learned. Poor mum!

Farway

Battersea, welcome to the forums, however your reply is five years late, original query was in 2013.

I suggest you check posting dates before replying because the problem may well have passed into history

Pollycat

batterseadog wrote: »

Bleach is just that and it should never be put neat onto any fabric as it will burn the fibres. I doubt there is any dye or whitener that will help, your mum has scorched the fabric.
If working on a fruit stain again, wet the area and then apply the bleach with a toothbrush to work along the fibres. The minute it fades, dunk it in water and re-assess if that needs repeating.
Slowly and in small stages, its not the bleach fault, just a hard lesson learned. Poor mum!

As this happened over 10 years ago, it's likely that 'poor mum' has forgotten about the tablecloth.