am i doing washign wrong? i have a new washign machine

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i thought towels should be washed with other things

i have only towels left in the basket but now i am reading that towels should be washed on their own?
is that right?

Others will disagree not doubt, but I wash everything in the same load on the same (cheap) programme. Nothing gets separated, nothing gets a special programme or detergent. Everything gets hung outside. Not had any obvious problems from this.

I wash towels with tea towels and cloths.

That is just about a full load anyway. I might put them with jeans sometimes.

It might be to do with he balancing in the machine, towels hold more water and if there’s just one in there they can bang about a bit.
I do 2 types of washes - lights (including towels), and darks. Sometimes a 60c bedding wash to clean the machine a bit more (but usually also a 60c).

I don't think there is any hard and fast rule.

I wash towels together as they equate to a full load, I also do each persons laundry individually (waiting until there is a full load) so it's just easy to dry and put away without sorting it out into piles for each room.

Just do what works for you.

I wash towels separately. But only because they always get tumbled so if they go in with anything else I have to seperate it out.

I was towels seperate but only as I always have a full load.

*wash

I wash everything in one wash at 30 degrees

Do what suits you! I do towels together, usually on a hotter wash than other clothes. But mostly because they don’t go in the laundry baskets with clothes - a towel wash is retrieving them from various bathrooms and horrible teenage bedrooms.

I do both. Sometimes on their own and sometimes with other things.
It's to do with balancing the machine. See also washing heavy onesie's that don't let it spin properly so it needs another spin cycle.

I wash towels with other items. My system is darks, lights, and whites. I use a colour powder for the darks and colours and a white powder for the colours. Usually at 40c or 30c. I have started using a laundry cleanser as a fabric conditioner in the last few months and I do think things are cleaner for that.

I don’t wash the rats bedding with the tea towels, otherwise anything goes.

I wash towels separately from anything else as you are not meant to use fabric softener on them as it stops them absorbing water properly so they don't dry you as well.

Do whatever suits you. I chuck everything in together, and have never had problems in the many thousands of loads I've done. My machine is an unstoppable beast that just cracks on though - maybe some machines are more prone to refusal.

yes, it was the balance i was concerned about

Only time balance has been a problem is washing the bath mat which weighs about 10 tonnes wet.

I wash towels separately because (1) we don't use fabric softener on them, and (2) we don't like them tumble dried.

I wash darks and lights don’t separate anything g else. If I have bedding then I’ll wash towels with that on 60. If not they go in the next dark wash. I try and reduce wash loads to as few as possible.

I separate for colour but nothing else.

I wash towels separately to everything else because they're usually the only thing that goes in the dryer, so it saves me re-sorting clean washing.

The rest gets sorted into light/white/dark.

If I have a full load of towels, I wash them on 60. Usually, I do one or two towels at a time so just stick them in with everything else on a 40 degree quick wash. Same for clothes, I only separate colours if I have a big load, otherwise they all go in together. I do always do bedding separately on a 60 degree cottons cycle though.

I do towels, tea towels & cleaning cloths together - I don't use any fabric softener & wash them at 60c (our machine has an eco 60c cycle, takes ages but I use that for towels etc).
Clothes are done at 30c & I use an eco friendly fabric softener.

Only reason I separate out towels (and even then, not religiously) is they apparently are softer if you don't use fabric conditioner with them. So I put them in with other things that don't need conditioning, e.g. tea towels, cushion covers and certain blankets.

All in with everything else here.

Wash whatever you want with towels. If I'm just doing a towels load I will do them all together. If there are only hand towels or tea towels I will do a mixed load with other clothes