How many days on average, do you leave wet washing in the machine?

[HisWife]

I leave it between 24-48 hours, If longer than that I usually run it again.

yes mamatomany i rewash if clothes have been rained on. oh my days 48 hours? i'd say 4-6 hours is the max amount of time that washing should be left as it will def smell

If I put a wash on at night before I go to bed, I take it out in the morning.

Overnight max

Overnight at most. I wouldn't do laundry if I knew I couldn't dry it soon after washing.

it ranges from straight away to whenever the fuck I remember.

Pag, I've been told that about various things... it might be true but it's subconscious - how can you make yourself care about something? And I have forgotten about the oven being on the smoke alarm alerted me!

On washing - I used to leave it but then got fed up with the musty smell. So now I try to take things out straight away. I also don't iron and I find if I leave stuff then it's really obvious it hasn't been ironed whereas things taken out and hung up straight away don't look so bad.

If I forget and leave stuff I don't re-wash it. It doesn't smell that bad and you might as well wear it before washing it again.

I take mine out ASAP after the machine stops. Usually within an hour or two.

Am also a bit at all the people who leave their machines running when they are out. After the experience I had a few years ago, I would never do that again.

I put a load of washing on, 40 degree cycle. Went upstairs to do something else for a while, and came down to find the kitchen full of steam. The machine was roasting hot, and the top of it and soap dispenser drawer had buckled in the heat. I switched it off straight away, and let it cool down, but if it had heated up much more, it could have caught fire. Apparently the thermostat had failed, so it just kept heating itself more and more.

I quite often put the machine on before I go to bed then hang it out in the morning which would be a max of 7 hours sitting in the machine, but I wouldn't leave it any longer than that as it would smell.

I only leave it overnight so that I can hang it outside before going to work to maximise drying time, if I had a better machine I would use a timer to delay the startt.

Leaving it for days is minging.

Takes 5-10 minutes? Am I really slow? It tends to take me 15 or 20. Not counting taking the dry things off the line first.

That worries me Norman :( my washing machine blocks the plug. I couldn't switch it off while it was on. The only way would be to trip the fuse.

Overnight if left a wash is put on last thing or during the day if the wash is put on in the morning before work.

One memorable time I put a wash of towels on, intending to hang them out on the clothes horse before leaving, but managed to forget. I (and everyone else) were heading out for a two week trip to my parents. Felt slightly panicky about my return and the smell!! But lovely MIL resuced them though

DH tends to take it out and leave in in the basket under the top items have dried. He doesn't learn that this is wrong. Grrrrr.

Bertie - it depends what's in the wash load. A few large items take less time to hang up than a lot of small items!

If your kitchen was full of steam, and your washing machine was extremely hot, I think you'd have to trip the fuse. But the experience has made me very unwilling to got out and leave the washing machine/dryer/dishwasher unattended.

I have mine on a timer so it finishes just before 9am - so it's not waiting around too long assuming I remember to do it (and also isn't running overnight while asleep - we're awake when it starts, just too lazy to put a load on at that time in the morning )

it ranges from straight away to whenever the fuck I remember.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! My kind of house work!

Max overnight - more than that it gets washed again because it does smell.

OTOH, if I didn't run the washing machine unattended, as it were, no-one in this household would ever have clean clothes

Hate fabric conditioner smell, love outdoor-dried clothes smell - it's one of my favourite things about this time of year (although I do usually put towels in the drier for 20mins when they come off the line to soften them)

Bertie - are you sure there's not an isolation switch somewhere above the counter? Ours blocks the plug but there's another switch at counter level which controls it.

If I am at home then I will take it out within 5-10 mins of the end of the cycle.

If I have put a load on before going to work or bed then I will take it out as soon as I get home or get up. So a maximum of about 10 hours.

48 hours?

removed within the hour .

no ne..straight out...hate musty washing...if i've evr forgotten i just wash it again straight away

Stealth, I'd rather we ran out of clean clothes than had a burnt down house! I never even thought about running the washing machine while out until it overheated, but the sight of the kitchen full of steam changed my mind......

I doubt it Rubberduck. The plumbing and electrics in this house are the bare minimum. They even used plastic pipes (meant for underground) rather than metal, presumably to save money.

I know what you mean though because my mum has them in her house.

Fabric conditioner is the devils semen

i love the smell of fabric conditioner..didnt realise it was organically supplied by the devil...but still love it