To wash everything together at 30c?

[lisalisa]

It has honestly never occurred to me to do differently . I separate my wash into light colours, whites and darks and change all bedding weekly and towels often but never separate kitchen or bsthroom towels or even cloths that we've used to clean the floor from anything else and wash all at 30. Just reading other threads where people seem to wash at 90 and wondering . Disclaimer : we don't use flannels ! Also been doing it this way for 23 yes and no one ill or dead from it

you go to the loo, wipe and wash your hands in warm water and soap and think nothing more about it as you prepare food

Yeah, but isn't this one of those things where microbiologists issue a statement every year or so about how to properly wash your hands and it turns out no-one is doing it properly?

I think you almost have to do a surgical scrub up to get your hands properly clean and, even if you do, most non-medical peeps then screw it up by turning off the tap with their newly-washed hand.

We are probably all eating our own poo.

I've given up washing at 30 as it just isn't as effective. I put everyday stuff through on a 40, white school shirts on a fifty with a metric fuckton of vanish gold. I run a maintenance wash every other month at 90 with soda crystals.

Bedding and towels on 60. Everything else on 40 separated roughly into light and dark. I've recently given up on non bio because it's shite and I'm getting into oxy powder too. But then, I'm right in the teeth of a midlife crisis and perimenopausal so everything seems to smell 'funny' to me these days, especially me

I do..undies+socks..towels.. bedding.. clothing.. It all usually goes on a 40 unless really grotty and I very rarely seperate into lights/darks/colours to be fair though most of the clothes in our house fall under 'colours' the darks are mine and the baby has lights. I tend to wash hers on their own though, all in the one wash.

My washing routine is s long complicated process!
Light, whites and darks loads washed at 40 deg full wash-2hrs
Underwear-60 deg full wash then tumble dry
Towels every 2days at 90 degree full wash with extra bleach poured in the drum
Bedding 60degree full wash and tumble dried
DH hates trying to sort washing for the machine as he cant keep track of the "rules"
I'm paranoid about smelling so everything is washed with extra hygiene powder stuff.
Machine gets a maintenance wash every month.

Bedding and towels 60. Anything with poo (baby) 75. Hardwearing clothes, underwear and socks 40. Delicates on delicate at 30.

Once a month I run an empty maintenance wash through the machine at 95 degrees plus detergent. Failure to do that can really banjax the machine, as slime can build up in the pipes. And it keeps it really clean, too. A Miele engineer told us to do that.

Oh, and tea and hand towels get done after the maintenance wash when the machine is all sterile. (We have a lot of tea towels, plus a dishwasher!)

I chuck most stuff that isn't white in together (we do wear a lot of black/grey in this house ), sometimes 30, sometimes 40. DD's stuff goes separately, as do nappies.

Oh, and I use around half the "recommended" dose of powder/liquid to stop the machine getting clogged up, as discussed here: www.athriftymrs.com/2014/01/youre-using-too-much-washing-powder.html

I do a lights and darks wash at 30 degrees. Very occasionally I'll do a whites wash at 65.

I do my bedding regularly on 95 degrees because a skin condition means using greasy creams overnight.

I found that if it would come out clean at 30, it didn't really need washing at all. That was quite helpful as I cut down my laundry habit, but I went back to 40.

everything at 30 degrees quick wash - saves time and nothing is that dirty
except - dogs bed, his towels etc go in on their own at 60 full wash and no spin (they dry in about 2 days outside )

Those who do a maintenance wash with soda crystals, do you it them in the compartment of the main wash draw?

I do colours and darks separately, both at 40. Towels and bedding in at 60 and delicate stuff the hand washing I don't do at 30

I do everything at 40. Washes are separated into dds clothes, my light and dark clothes, towels (and cloths etc sometimes at 60 if stinky), and bedding.

I do a wash a day usually.

I do everything at thirty and add White vinegar to the prewash because we live in a hard water area. This also helps kill bacteria.
The detergent by its nature is also antibacterial.
If something is heavily soiled I will do it at 40.
But we change all our clothes every day so 30 on a fast wash is probably enough.

Towels, teatowels, dishclothes get a 90 degree wash. Bedding gets 60 degree. Everything else gets 40. It's just what I picked up from my Mum.

Maintenance was here is soda crystals in main drawer and white vinegar in fabric softer compartment.

Never use washing liquid either, powder only as liquid clogs more

I do the same as the OP.

Except I wash towels at 60.

Have never washed dog's bed though.

The Japanese wash everything in cold water, they seem to be ok

40 here. 30 didn't seem to do the job. 60 for bedding, 90 for towels. I don't excessively wash bedding and towels though, only when they need it.

It is worth washing clothes/bedding apart from towels so that you can wash the clothes with conditioner (to make them soft) but not put it in with the towel load (so they stay absorbent).

I find things don't wash properly at 30.

I put everything in together at 40 (white and dark loads), except for the cat's blankets/towels and bedding, and they go in at 60.

I do mine at 20°

I have never separated my washing and just bung it all in together on a standard setting. No one's died yet.