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AIBU?

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Original poster

To think this is a bit disgusting

61 replies

Leontine · 27/01/2015 16:38

Yesterday morning we had a bit of a disaster when one of the radiators in the lounge burst. We used Tupperware boxes to catch the water.
After everything was all sorted someone in my household put the said boxes in the dishwasher along with all the plates, cutlery etc. Now this may be the germaphobe in my talking but I thought that was a bit 'yuck'.

AIBU?

OP posts:
Sparklingbrook · 27/01/2015 16:53

Sorry Leontine. Blush

InanimateCarbonRod · 27/01/2015 16:53

YABU dishwashers are like big steralising units. We put the cat bowls in.

spanky2 · 27/01/2015 16:57

Get your system flushed. If black water was coming out I would bin the containers! Now op seems quite moderate!

Sparklingbrook · 27/01/2015 16:57

System flush is £££££££s isn't it?

JKSLtd · 27/01/2015 17:10

System flush is costly. And my plumber says it's pointless. Once you have some sludge forming in the system it will just build up again. Mir will gather at the lowest point in the system - ours was the radiator in the front room. Until that rad stops heating up because it's full of sludge.

Honestly Google magnaclean. Not expensive but does need emptying a few times at the beginning then once a year when you get the boiler serviced.

JKSLtd · 27/01/2015 17:13

Read this www.dripfix.co.uk/helpmagnetite.aspx

lemisscared · 27/01/2015 17:16

do you suffer from anxiety

Original poster
Leontine · 27/01/2015 17:23

The plumber didn't seem bothered by the black water and flushing wasn't mentioned. The radiator was removed and is going to be replaced with a new one.
This is actually the third radiator in the house that this has happened to and each time the water was black but again, flushing the system has never been mentioned.

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NetballHoop · 27/01/2015 17:36

A friend of mine (though I won't be eating at her house) confessed to putting the loo seat in the dishwasher once every six months to give it a "PROPER" clean.

Hatespiders · 27/01/2015 17:59

Water in radiators is anaerobic, so no bacteria can grow at all. The black colour is metal sediment and Fernox which is there to protect the metal inside of the rad from coating up with scale and interfering with the flow of water.
I'd have rinsed the plastic containers out first, then popped them through on a hot cycle of dishwasher. We did exactly that when we replaced one rad in our kitchen and the plumber drained it into a plastic pot like yours. The water was black, but he said it was fine, all rads have blackish water due to Fernox.

We had our system flushed out in our last house and it cost about £800.
The inside of all the rads had deteriorated and eroded and the pump was kaput with all the sediment and needed replacing. It's a heck of a business.

We've just discovered Finish Dishwasher Cleaner. I expect everyone else knows about this, but we're a bit slow to catch on! It really gives the machine a good clean out and freshens it up.

Stratter5 · 27/01/2015 18:06

Dog bowls
Cat bowl
Ferret bowls
Various small ting bowls
Stirrups
Bits

All go in the dishwasher, and we are all still alive.

gobbynorthernbird · 27/01/2015 18:10

Stirrups? Are you a rider or a gynae?

wyamc · 27/01/2015 18:12

We lost our hamster and found her sitting in a lunch box in the kitchen cupboard. I've always been a bit wary of that lunch box ever since, it's never been the same. Even though it's been through the dishwasher numerous times now.

BlessedAndGr8fulNoInLaws4Xmas · 27/01/2015 18:13

I put my kitchen bin in the dishwasher (& I'm a nurse) Blush

FightOrFlight · 27/01/2015 18:21

YABU unless you shit in your radiators.

It's just dirty water. Rinse them thoroughly and bung them in the dishwasher.

Runningupthathill82 · 27/01/2015 18:23

Eh? YABU and a bit bonkers.

Salmotrutta · 27/01/2015 18:26

I put my riding stirrups in the dishwasher.

Brings them up a treat.

not really

GoofyIsACow · 27/01/2015 18:26

There was once a dishwasher thread on here where someone admitted to chucking dogshit covered wellies in her dw! Shock

Radiator water catchers... Fine

Hatespiders · 27/01/2015 19:15

I'm having a giggle at 'rider or gynae'. I can see where stirrups come in, but what does one do with 'bits'? Grin

Aridane · 27/01/2015 19:18

Yabu

NotLoveActually · 27/01/2015 19:23

YABU, my mother also cracks up when the men cleaning the carpets ask to put the dirty water down the toilet Grin I think she is very unreasonable Grin

WhereIsMyFurryHat · 27/01/2015 19:31

How do you fit your bin in the dishwasher. I'd love to put mine in there.

I have out duplo through the dishwasher which is as exciting as it gets for my machine.

TitchyThings · 27/01/2015 19:32

I have a glass that my daughter won't drink from, I found out recently that she saw me catch a spider in it 15 years ago.

Original poster
Leontine · 27/01/2015 19:34

@TitchyThings seems perfectly reasonable to me. Grin

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FightOrFlight · 27/01/2015 19:42

To be fair I think the hamster/lunchbox situation is even more weird.

What sort of dreadful, communicable diseases do you think hamsters can pass on via a well cleaned lunchbox Hmm Did you stop your children from touching the hamster?