To bother you to ask how hotels keep laundry so clean?

[strawberriesplease]

Even my best duvets from The White Company don't keep white and spotless.

How do Hotels do it? Boiling, steaming? Anyone know?

Heavy duty detergent with bleach - industrial version stronger than normal persil or household detergent.

using a very hot/boil long wash

Similar to hospital I think

Most use a laundry service so industrial washers

Yes, I thought it must be a combination of bleach and boiling then putting them through an ironing machine thing

I'd love to see the whole process

It takes heat to shift grease.

My aunt and uncle run a hotel. They do their laundry in house - very high temperature, bleach and quality control, anything with even a minor blemish is weeded out. Our entire family has bedding for life lol

It gets sent out to an industrial laundry service. They use all sorts of chemicals to keep linens white & crisp. I've unpacked a lot of linen orders & I can still smell it now when I think about it.

Use persil bio powder. Wash at 60.
We have all white king of cotton or white company sheets. 400-600 to. Use in holiday rental ( so washed often, especially in summer).
Sheets are 3-4 years old now. All white white still. We use same sheets in own bedrooms.

We also use persil bio powder,60 wash on washable nappies. 2 years use, literally been pooped in daily, all white white, as new.

That whiteness won't be doing the planet any favours 🙁

Spect that hotel linens have their life shortened by such harsh laundering
although I’m sure that they have a higher rate of them being burnt or damaged or stained indelibly?

** I expect

Large hotel chains rent their linen, the rental companies use industrial laundries

Temporary job
Hours hanging hospital sheets onto a huge machine
The chemicals took the skin off my fingers

High temperatures and lots of chemicals. Nightmare for my allergies and I have to take antihistamines almost every time I stay away from home!

Line dry when you can as sun bleaches out stains

We bought some lovely white bedding a couple of years ago seeking out the relaxed hotel room vibes for our bedroom.
What a stupid fucking expensive mistake that was 😂

I have lovely white bedding. I always wash it at 60° and hang it outside if possible. It's 20 or 25 years old and still as white as new. I'm just starting to have to replace the odd pillow case which has worn through.

I use non-bio powder for whites as the enzymes in bio powders work best at 40° and aren't much use at 60.

Industrial laundries usually do them. Same for NHS and restaurants. Tbh I don't know what they used to wash them with. I used to work for one and we'd visit the sites every so often.

Personally I line dry all year round and it keeps things bright.

@KnickerlessParsons

no one wants to sleep in dingy yellowing sheets when they go to a hotel and though do they

Spect that hotel linens have their life shortened by such harsh laundering.

True. We inherited some lovely linen from dh’s mother which was 50 or 60 years old and in perfect condition.
We use a local laundry and the linen sheets have worn thin and some have holes (which I patch with bits from a ripped sheet).

And yea we hang outside to dry in sun where possible. Helps keep everything bright

Anything above 40c will destroy the enzymes in biological powder. You're better off using non bio for higher temperatures.

I'm sure there's more vids too!

@BamBamBilla - non bio is only sold in uk. So the rest of the world are washing in bio only basically. So unless we import, or buy somewhere bespoke, non bio isn’t possible where we live. And we have haven’t every had a problem with whites not being white, so it must work

Yeah hot temp and icy bleach. Pure cotton too so can stick it.

There used to be a place sold off the marked stuff but they closed years ago. I have flat sheets and duvet covers from them and they are still going strong.

I do my own laundry for my holiday cottages.

I use Vanish Oxy Action White in a 40 degree wash along with eco laundry stuff. It gets whites very white, you don't need a hot wash.