To rewash dd's clothes at 60?

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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.

Bruffen, you can get Oxiclean on Amazon £4.82 a tub and free delivery.There are various other similar products.

Some of these posts appal me . No thought for the planet your children will inherit .
Napisan was great(couldn't remember the name of it last night ) Much better /gentler than Oxi clean. I do run towels and sheets through a 60 degree wash occasionally , more to 'clean out' the machine. And as someone else said, I might put stained tea towels, hankies etc through on a 90 degree But the Which article cited makes it very clear what 'works'
Our terries went through 2 children and were passed on to a friend after Good as new (Harington squares-only the best for my PFB) They were usually line -dried so testimony to the bleaching power of the sun
Both DDs were very healthy as babies and toddlers and DD1 never had a day off school ,til second year sixth when she had flu.Both still very robust . Maybe their systems developed a healthy immunity?
(once had a H and S talk at work from a fireman who said he'd once had to call out the brigade to a washing machine fire in his own home . V embarasing. It is very common apparently . Made me quite wary!)
I used to do a wash either last ot first thing (still do) and hang out if weather looked OK. If it got rained on it got rained I'd just rinse and hang in our covered entry way/ use the drier if I realy needed to . I use tumbler drier mostly for towels and to finish of stuff . I believe that heat kills most things

Ozymandiusking

No thats not Oxiclean, its oxyplus and not the same thing. I have some and it is nowhere near as good. Vanish oxi action is better but still not as good as Oxiclean.
is 21.12 a tub and £62 delivery

Sorry meant to say thank you to Ozymandius and Clauida

They got rid of hot fill washers and made us have cold fills as they are greener

Hot fills were made locally in the UK, most cold fills are imported from China

Hot fills lasted well over 10 years, cold fills on average last for 7 years due to the cold water and gunk

Hot fills would work of the combi boiler

We were one of the only countries with hot fill washers

A new green hot fill washer has been 'invented' but costs over a grand

Madness, bring back hot fill washers

Regardless of whether the detergent or water temperature is responsible for killingnbacteria, surely it is only an issue if your dd spends much time licking her clothes or you were planning to put them on top of open wounds? Skin as a general rule is pretty good at keeping everyday bacteria out of the body.

Postchildrenpregranny Yes appalling posts, all this washing at 60 and 90, oopps sorry, you do it too

Everything is washed at 30 here. We are all clean with guys of steel.

What the hell has hot fill washers got to do with whether to re-wash clothes that have been pooed on?

I would soak the stained clothes in a bowl of soapy water first, then wash again at 40. Any higher temp might shrink the clothes.

ouryve

nothing but it is to do with the green argument. What's greener, a hotfill made in the UK that lasts longer or a cold fill mass produced and shipped from China that breaks quicker so need replaced more often

30 is not cold. I would hang the clothes out in the sun. They have been washed and won't kill anyone.

These threads always leave me wondering if I'm weird or if mumsnet is weird.

Pooed-on vests got a soak in the sink to remove the solid stuff, then in a 30 or 40 wash with everything else. If staining didn't come out first time they with went back in wash basket for another go or were relegated to night-time wear until the stains came out - not had any which didn't clean up eventually.

All our washing gets chucked in together at 30 or 40 - towels, pants whatever. Occasional hot wash for the machine when I remember.

I wash towels at 90° every week.

Did somebody just faint?

Nothing to do with re-washing but I'm with Singing on cold fill washers and dishwashers. I hate them. It was purely a way for manufacturers to reduce manufacturing costs.
The argument for cold fill is that modern washing machines use so little water that by the time the water was coming through hot it had finished filling...especially for lower temp washes.
(I disagree about combi boilers though - I think the evidence for this was from Combi boilers - rather than well insulated pipe from a well insulated tank - used to love combis now loathe them -they waste so much water)
Especially for a very hot wash I used to get the water running hot before turning the washing machine on (using the water for washing up/cleaning down/soaking etc)....now you have to wait for an electric heater to heat water from mains cold to 90 deg...washes take longer and sure use a lot more energy.

I have been looking at Solar thermal (solar panels that heat your hot water) -obviously if you have those a hot fill would be much more environmentally friendly/energy efficient - probably why the only ones you can get now cost £1k -someone cashing in!

I wash all cotton clothes at 60

And bedding at 90

Ever since the hideous bedbug incident of winter 2014/15

OMG - the preciousness of "save the planet, wash at 30" - I suppose you don't have a shower every day then, is that right? Or possibly 2 or 3 times a day as seems to be quite a common occurrence amongst MNers?

Anyway.

I washed one of DS1's fabric toys at 30 deg once, to try and be gentle with it - it came out the same colour it went in. Washed it at 40 - clean as a whistle. 30 deg washes don't happen in this house now.

OMG - the preciousness of "save the planet, wash at 30" yes terribly precious not to want to waste finite resources. And for the record, I shower every other day and I don't smell!

I do, however, use a "green" washing powder.

Oh dear, GADinah - wait for the comments about how you think you don't smell but actually you are a minger of the first order from the 2-3x a day showerers!

I wait with bated breath ThumbWitches

I don't get the sneering at people recommending stuff that uses less energy. Just because you can't use no energy doesn't mean it isn't a good idea to use less.

I'm not exactly sneering at the recommendation to use less energy, Archery - more commenting on the probably hypocrisy as many of those who gasp in horror at using hotter washes than 30 degrees probably also have showers (oddly enough, also using precious resources) more than once a day.

Anyway. I don't really care - I do what works for us (and poo stains rarely come out under the sun, I find, even Aussie sun! ) and that doesn't include 30 degree washes. I mostly use 40. Or 50.

Just occsasionally Roses
but no I dont shower or change towels ,sheets every day , as some MNs do

Wow this is an eye opener.

I wash everything in cold water. Everyone I know does. Hot water makes colour run, clothes shrink and is environmentally unfriendly/expensive. I don't need to separate colours. But apparently Aussie washing smells lol.

The sunshine or the dryer kills germs. We do have hotter sunshine though.

I leave washing on overnight. That's what smoke alarms are for. Although I suspect as I haven't heard of fire risk here, it's probably more likely with hot water connected.

Anything that is pooey gets soaked in napisan first or rinsed out.