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How do you wash your bathroom rugs?

88 replies

Nenuco · 26/01/2019 05:59

Do you use your washing machine?

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BillywilliamV · 26/01/2019 06:08

Depends on type of rug, but ..Yes!

littlecabbage · 26/01/2019 06:11

Yes I do.

WanderingTrolley1 · 26/01/2019 06:12

Washing machine

JustGettingStarted · 26/01/2019 06:14

Of course

Monty27 · 26/01/2019 06:15

Yes washing machine too. Why?

Nenuco · 26/01/2019 06:17

I guess I'm kind of iffy about using my washing machine to wash bathroom rugs! I used to always go to the laundromat. :/

I guess I'll try it then.

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raspberryjo · 26/01/2019 06:18

Yes. With dettol laundry cleanser.

Sillybilly1234 · 26/01/2019 06:20

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BillywilliamV · 26/01/2019 06:24

Why is it that some people just can't resist being nasty, even about something like this?

Nenuco · 26/01/2019 06:33

Go back in time and use a twin tub washing machine. The type that was all the rage when people still had rugs in bathrooms.

Either you're being sarcastic or trying to be funny. Either way, I don't get it.

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BiscuitDrama · 26/01/2019 06:34

Do you mean a bath mat? I think people are being snippy because you said ‘rug’.

Chocolatecoffeeaddict · 26/01/2019 06:45

Sillybilly and Billywilliam are so obviously one and the same! So very strange.
I put my bath mat in the washing machine but on it's own as it can weigh the drum down.

Nenuco · 26/01/2019 07:23

I think people are being snippy because you said ‘rug’.

Why would people be snippy with "rug"?

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BiteyShark · 26/01/2019 07:24

In the washing machine.

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anniehm · 26/01/2019 07:27

In the U.K. it's bath mat, rugs are in the living room - that's all. We also say launderette not laundromat here.

In answer to your query, with towels in my washing machine, double rinse.

PrettySimple · 26/01/2019 07:32

I used to wash mine in the washing machine but ended up getting rid of it and opted for one of them wooden ones instead....purely because nobody in the house would straighten It out when the kicked it.. thibk about putting in the basket to be washed if it needed it let alone bloody wash it and I for sick of it haha now they all complain they don't like the wooden one but tough tit haha when they pull their weight they can buy a new one and ensure it washed untill then the wooden step type one stays

PeridotCricket · 26/01/2019 07:37

Washing machine with the towels or sheets usually.

BillywilliamV · 26/01/2019 07:37

I certainly AM NOT sillybilly,

I am a sensible Billy!

flatpackbox · 26/01/2019 07:43

I don’t have any! I bought two John Lewis ‘house’ (the cheap label) cork bath bats several years ago, £10 each, and they are like new. I might rinse them off in the shower now and then but that’s all.

Liz38 · 26/01/2019 07:43

In the washing machine. Last ones used to go in at 90 with the towels, current over can only do 30 so they go with the clothes. But I change them weekly, no shoes in the house and use white vanish and laundry dettol. I deliberately buy machine washable and two so that I can change them weekly.

MadauntofA · 26/01/2019 07:50

I think I'm being a bit thick, but how do the wooden/ cork mats work? Does the water just evaporate? Don't they discolour or go mouldy?

PrettySimple · 26/01/2019 07:57

MadauntofA mine is raised ever so slightly so I pop a small hand towel under there about 5.30 before dinner and then remove it and just it in the machine with whatever else when everyone is showered. It's not perfect but it absorbs the water and I don't have a folded over bath mat 24/7

Nenuco · 26/01/2019 07:57

Ok, my question stems from me thinking that rugs/mats used on the floor/feet are dirty. That's why I didn't put them on my washing machine.

Am I being silly?

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MargotLovedTom1 · 26/01/2019 08:01

Yes! Grin The whole point of a washing machine is to wash dirty things.