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To rewash dd's clothes at 60?

227 replies

AntiHop · 22/04/2015 01:12

I have stayed up late to wait for the washing to finish which was all 7 month old DD's clothes. After it was finished I noticed that my DP had turned the washing machine down at 30. The wash included a very poo covered vest. I usually wash her clothes at 50. AIBU to rewash all the clothes at 50, particularly as there was a pooey vest in the wash? Very annoyed at DP for turning the washing machine down. So tired that I have lost all sense of perspective.

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SpiritOfTheRitz · 22/04/2015 07:21

Unless your DD is suffering from some sort of stomach/bowel complaint, I wouldn't even consider rewashing.

Just hang it in the sun, it will be fine.

Charis1 · 22/04/2015 07:25

iron the vest. Ironing kills far more bacteria than washing at any temperature.

BlackeyedSusan · 22/04/2015 07:31

do you wash you hands in a sixty degree wash after going to the loo? or changing that nappy?

HolgerDanske · 22/04/2015 07:32

Yes I'd wash it again. No, YANBU.

fiorentina · 22/04/2015 07:33

I like to think I'm clean and my kids seem to be healthy. I only wash towels, cleaning cloths and sheets at 60 degrees. Everything else is 40 or 30 degrees. They all seem to come out clean, smell fresh etc.

My clothes, underwear etc would be ruined if I washed them at 60 degrees constantly.

Poo covered vests I would give a quick wash or hand wash to and then wash with the next load.

I do periodically run the machine at 90 on empty to 'clean' it.

eurochick · 22/04/2015 07:35

I do the same fiorentina. Poo covered baby clothes get soaked in vanish or biotex and then washed at 30. We've made it through the past nine months unscathed!

noblegiraffe · 22/04/2015 07:35

I've never washed anything at 60 in my life and yet I and my family are remarkably healthy.

There was a study that showed that the dials on washing machines are inaccurate anyway and it's unlikely your 60 degree wash reaches 60 degrees.

NerrSnerr · 22/04/2015 07:37

I wouldn't re wash either. Surely the detergent kills bugs as pp said- we don't wash our hands at 60.

bruffin · 22/04/2015 07:39

Oxi Clean is good

Where can you get Oxiclean in the Uk now. Lakeland have stopped selling it and the P&P costs on ebay are more than the product

GobblersKnob · 22/04/2015 07:41

Mine both wore reusables and I never washed them hotter than 40....

Pants at 60? Socks?

Bloody hell.

Bio washing powder is more effective at lower temps anyway.

carabos · 22/04/2015 07:45

I'm amazed that anyone would risk washing anything other than cotton towels and sheets at 60 - doesn't everything else shrink to nothing?

ThinkIveBeenHacked · 22/04/2015 07:47

Does everyone wait up for their machine to finish its cycle?!

treaclesoda · 22/04/2015 07:49

Which say the detergent is the important thing.

The clothes are being agitated in the machine for hours - it might not kill things but the idea is that it sort of jiggles all the crap out and rinses it away. The germs might not be dead but they're still washed away. In theory anyway!

GiniCooper · 22/04/2015 08:01

I'm more concerned that people wait for the machine to finish.
Why?

BaronessEllaSaturday · 22/04/2015 08:04

I'm more concerned that people wait for the machine to finish.
Why?

Washing machines, dishwashers and tumble dryers are all known house fire risks so it isn't advised to put them on and leave them unattended.

Charis1 · 22/04/2015 08:05

I'm more concerned that people wait for the machine to finish.
Why?

because unsupervised washers and dryers are the biggest cause of house fires and related deaths.

Icimoi · 22/04/2015 08:07

Faulty appliances account for around 4000 household fires per year, with 15% of those being caused by washing machines. Maybe that's why OP was waiting for the machine to finish?

Charis1 · 22/04/2015 08:09

and washing machine fires cause proportionally far more deaths, because so many people go to sleep with them on.

ThinkIveBeenHacked · 22/04/2015 08:11

If I could only put a wash on when I was able to "supervise" my appliances Id never have any clean clothes!

No-one supervises their fridge or freezer.

NerrSnerr · 22/04/2015 08:13

This is a genuine question. When do people who work full time and have children etc do their washing?

I am clearly wrong, I wash everything at 30 and leave the machine unattended. I wonder if I need washing machine lessons?

Mintyy · 22/04/2015 08:17

Yuck yuck yuck yuck at putting a vest covered in poo in the washing machine anyway!

It should have been thoroughly soaked in a warm Napisan solution before it even got to that stage.

Of course it all needs to be re-washed.

FuckyNell · 22/04/2015 08:18

My fridge freezer supervises my washing machine

Charis1 · 22/04/2015 08:18

fridges and freezers don't cause anything like as many fires, ThinkIvebeenhacked.

When I'm at home, at the weekend, mostly, NerrSnerr. I never used to bother, but two of my friends had washing machine fires in quick succession a couple of years back, and both were awake and downstairs and aware of the smoke immediately, and able to get their familes out. In one case it was in the garage, which was also their main exit, so they had to climb out of a ground floor window. Their car was blazing before the smoke alarm went off! In the other case, much less damage, but still it would have been a lot worse is my friend had been asleep when it started.

Notso · 22/04/2015 08:19

I can't believe you would even consider this. You must be so tired. Sleep is way more important.

I used cloth nappies and some of them can't be washed higher than 40.

Maliceaforethought · 22/04/2015 08:21

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