To think DH shouldn’t have washed this?

[Power5]

We have garden furniture at the back of our garden with trees above , so over the winter it bears the brunt of the elements and is covered in bird crap etc.

DH has taken it off this morning and put it in the washing machine.

Is it me or is this really unhygienic given it’s covered in all sorts of crap?! He didn’t wash it down first .

No idea. I assume the Dplumber did that when we had the kitchen done last year.

Darling plumber? Are you the Ddog poster?

Seriously?!? My husband does most of the washing in our house and I'm raising two teen boys to know how the washer, dryer and washing lines work. The bulk of the washing is their dirty smelly sports kit and big jeans/hoodies anyway.

We ALL wear clothes in this house, so (as I say to them) unless they want to choose going naked, we ALL help with washing.

You've just set equality back about 50 years with that 'washing line'!

I like your style @Power5
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You could ask her, if you are worried?

Aa, the classic "husband didn't do a thing how I wanted" (despite no actual damage incurred and task completed successfully).

Later followed by, my husband doesn't do anything, why is it all on me?!

Who knows. Who knows.

Well obviously not because you hadn't thought of it. Apart from the ridiculousness of you even saying that.
Perhaps this year take the cover off before winter,that's the point of them.

Jesus. 1950 called.........

I'd put just his clothes in on the longest possible hottest wash before I used it for anyone else's clothes.

Why?

I'd probably have hosed it down to remove at least some of the visible crap before then putting it in machine once I'd wrung it out a bit.

I'd be more concerned it wasn't machine washable and might get deformed and not fit back on the furniture. Or it was so heavy it could damage drum of machine?

But if it's just cleanliness you're worried about just run a very hot wash empty with washing machine cleaner or just nothing.

Please tell me you're joking
don't perpetuate sexism

also don't make any more fuss over a bloody garden furniture cover get a life !

Tarpaulin/heavy duty covers in future. Only need to be hosed down. Well at least that's all I do with them!

Is it a man’s job 😂

As poo goes, bird guano is one of the least disgusting. I think people just think of it as worse because it comes from the sky and sometimes lands in people's hair. It's certainly far less gross than human poo in washable nappies, as PP said.

If you had to wash a muddy sports kit, that mud would have come from 'the outside' too. Dirty fabric is exactly what washing machines love!

But why didn’t you put some sort of protective cover on for the winter?

Presumably as some kind of passive aggressive revenge 🙄

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I'd have binned it tbh. Bird poo gives me the giant ick.

If you can use bleach in your machine, stick that in on a boil wash.

I think it’s fine as long as you put it on an empty hot wash afterwards. You could even chuck in some of that disinfectant washing liquid for clothes if it bothers you too much.

No, utter gross!!!! I couldn't even look at the washing machine in the same light again.

And this is the kind of thing my OH would do too - man logic I call it!

Grab a box of Dr Beckams deep clean washing machine cleaner. Pays to do this once in a while anyway

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😂rage bait, booooooring

I suppose he might have done a quick power wash to lift most of it off and then wash in the machine.
Do a 90 degree on empty and it will clear it out.