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If you run your washing overnight...

108 replies

RequiresUpdating · 19/05/2023 16:12

.. do you:
A) put it on when you go to bed and leave it wet in the machine until morning?
B) load the machine and set the timer so it finishes at 6am?

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WeAreTheHeroes · 19/05/2023 18:19

Beautyhoard · 19/05/2023 17:57

I'd rather a house fire when I'm in bed than when I'm out of the house during the day - we have linked smoke alarms throughout the house so would wake up very quickly. I think driers are a bigger risk than washers anyway.

You don't run it when you're out either!

Washing machines are just as hazardous as driers.

What can I say - I always have done, for many years. No fires ever. And I even had one of death trap Hotpoint dryers at one stage, but have always emptied the lint trap...

Ollybob · 19/05/2023 18:25

C
Start it in the evening after work, stop it when I go to bed when it's on a rinse and finish it off in the morning.
Means I don't have to stay up late waiting for it to finish or be woken by it first thing 😁

IglesiasPiggl · 19/05/2023 18:33

WhatNoRaisins · 19/05/2023 18:06

B.

If I only ran my washing machine when I was in and awake I'd never have enough clean clothes. Decided it's worth the low risk of a house fire.

I agree with this. People always come on the overnight washing threads with the fire risk thing, but it's absolutely tiny and completely dwarfed by the convenience of overnight washing for me. I also run my dishwasher overnight, and sometimes my breadmaker. Been doing it for years. Why do these machines have such long delay timers if not to come on when you're asleep /out?

TheOrigRights · 19/05/2023 18:34

Ollybob · 19/05/2023 18:25

C
Start it in the evening after work, stop it when I go to bed when it's on a rinse and finish it off in the morning.
Means I don't have to stay up late waiting for it to finish or be woken by it first thing 😁

You are doing exactly NOT what the OP asked about!
I have been noting that all these people must either have very quiet machines or very large houses.
My machine isn't particularly noisy, but you know it's on and DS's bedroom is above. A spin would disturb him.

Careerdilemma · 19/05/2023 18:36

A good alternative to the timer if you don't have one is A, but put it on rinse hold and then manually spin it in the morning. It stops it creasing.

ElmTree22 · 19/05/2023 18:47

TheShellBeach · 19/05/2023 16:48

Oh dear. I do all my washing during the day.

<<<slinks away from thread in disgrace>>>

Me too 😵‍💫

dizzydizzydizzy · 19/05/2023 19:50

B. And it makes no difference if some of the washing is damp or sweaty.

BriarHare · 19/05/2023 19:52

We just put it on whenever. If it sits in the machine for a few hours before it goes in the dryer, it’s never smelly.

Okunevo · 19/05/2023 19:54

I don't run mine overnight but if I did it would be B. I've put it on half asleep at 5 something then gone back to bed.

RemainAtHome · 19/05/2023 20:43

A

It never crossed my mind to do B
Washing smelling nice in the am.

im sure many people have left their washing waiting fir a few hours during the day wo a second thought

RemainAtHome · 19/05/2023 20:45

TheOrigRights · 19/05/2023 18:34

You are doing exactly NOT what the OP asked about!
I have been noting that all these people must either have very quiet machines or very large houses.
My machine isn't particularly noisy, but you know it's on and DS's bedroom is above. A spin would disturb him.

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Or we are just used to it like you get used to road noise etc….

Machine is under our bedroom. Never been an issue.

WeAreTheHeroes · 19/05/2023 20:50

Ours is in the cellar under the kitchen so we don't hear it at all.

TheOrigRights · 19/05/2023 21:05

RemainAtHome · 19/05/2023 20:45

Or we are just used to it like you get used to road noise etc….

Machine is under our bedroom. Never been an issue.

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Yes, different strokes for different folks. We don't have any road noise here.

We moved from a town to a small village when I was 6. My Mum said she couldn't sleep for weeks because it was too quiet!

TheOrigRights · 19/05/2023 21:12

squidgybits · 19/05/2023 17:40

you are not supposed to run them at night or when you are out

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Don't most people if they know they have a load of washing make sure they put it on just before they go out so it's done when they get back?

JaninaDuszejko · 19/05/2023 21:34

I have 3DC and do a load of washing every day. I put it on before I go swimming in the morning (so it's on before 6am and I wake DH and the teenage DDs before I leave the house at 6.20am). Then DH hangs it out before he starts work (he WFH).

cushioncovers · 19/05/2023 21:46

A

EversoDisorganised · 19/05/2023 21:47

Small house but the WM is in the kitchen which is a single storey rear extension so you can't hear it from the living room or bedrooms. Our standard cycle is only an hour so its easy to do it all when we are at home and awake.

FiveShelties · 19/05/2023 21:50

Do your neighbours not complain or are you all in detached houses.

I have never run my machine overnight as I am a very light sleeper and it would waken me up.

Okunevo · 19/05/2023 21:55

FiveShelties · 19/05/2023 21:50

Do your neighbours not complain or are you all in detached houses.

I have never run my machine overnight as I am a very light sleeper and it would waken me up.

I run mine early morning but it is on the external wall. We rarely hear anything between properties, only running on stairs, banging on the wall, never washing machines, television, voices.

burnoutbabe · 19/05/2023 21:59

I am in a flat so it's b -in summer it starts 7.30 yo end 8.30 when cheap eiec ends.

Running the spin cycle during the night is unfair to neighbours. Doing it around 7.30 is reasonable (in week)

334bu · 19/05/2023 22:02

Have never run it overnight, since my neighbour lost her newly refurbished kitchen in a fire caused by the washing machine. Fortunately smoke alarm woke them up.

mondaytosunday · 19/05/2023 22:51

This is where a washer dryer comes into its own! Washes and dries overnight.

Bargellobitch · 19/05/2023 23:25

It won't go smelly in like 6 hours.

Also I've heard of various washing machine fires. I think the fire brigade do recommended you are awake and at home when using it. I always do this it's not worth the risk.

BertieBotts · 19/05/2023 23:36

A because I don't want it to wake me up and I don't want to press the button a million times to choose a time.

It doesn't smell if you take it out in the morning.

sendbackaletterfromamerica · 19/05/2023 23:38

Massive fire risk. Don't do this. You would sleep through any disaster.