How do you wash your bathroom rugs?

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Do you use your washing machine?

I've broken two washing machines by washing bath mats in them so be careful.

Rags also go in the washing machine and come out clean

fiddie how on earth did your bath mats break your machine? Are they wooden ones?

Too heavy apparently

My bath mats are just like thick towels so wouldn't break a washing machine.

I wash cleaning cloths and mop heads (they are more like pads) in the washing machine. They are washed on a separate hot wash with a scoop of napisan for hygiene. Bath mats are washed with towels.

justasking, a rug made of carpet or a bathroom appropriate rug?

What makes you think launderette machines haven't had utterly minging things in them? And why is a bath mat yuckier than worn underwear? I find this thread odd. Dirty things go in the machine and come out clean.

This is the weirdest thread.

What do you do with a teenager's rugby kit caked in mud? A toddler's clothes when they've face planted in a puddle? Your door mats? Your kitchen cloths?

What makes you think launderette machines haven't had utterly minging things in them?

That's why I don't wash our clothes in them, just the bath mats, rugs, cleaning clothes, kitchen rugs, etc.

And why is a bath mat yuckier than worn underwear?

Because it stays on the floor for days? And becomes wet several times a day?

What do you do with a teenager's rugby kit caked in mud? A toddler's clothes when they've face planted in a puddle?

No idea. I don't have children.

Your door mats? Your kitchen cloths?

Launderette.

This is the weirdest thread.

I agree. But I genuinely would like to know if I am being silly making the special trip to the launderette to wash these items.

basically washing machines are designed to wash dirty things....

This is basically it OP. I can’t get my head around not using your washing machine for dirty things.

I used cloth nappies and have washable sanitary towels so my washing machines have seen lots of things.

Just wash them!

^Yeah I guess I'm being silly. Just that all I wash in my washing machine are clothes of two relatively clean adults!

But I genuinely would like to know if I am being silly making the special trip to the launderette to wash these items.

Yes.
You are being completely bonkers.

Washing machines are designed to make things that are dirty, clean. That is exactly their job.

clothes of two relatively clean adults!

Even relatively clean adults shed skin cells and secrete bodily fluids OP. Your bath mats are probably cleaner than your underwear, fact.

Because it stays on the floor for days? And becomes wet several times a day?

Why on earth do you leave it on the floor? I hang mine over the shower rail to dry out between uses. It never gets very dirty because it only gets used when a clean person steps out of the shower or bath to stand on it.

I mean this kindly, but you are a tiny bit bonkers

It's fine to put them in the machine. They shouldn't be that dirty anyway if you wash it about once a week.

I use half a cap of zoflora In with the normal detergent on a 60degree 1hr cycle.

It's fine.

Are you the girl I went to uni with who kept buying tea towels cause she didn't want to wash them with her other towels cause they would get food germs on them.
I didn't get the logic then and I don't get it now.
Your underwear is probably dirtier. Generally you stand on a bath mat just after you have cleaned yourself. It gets wet etc but it's not getting covered in dirt, sweat, shit etc.

My OH is a farmer...some of the stuff that goes in my machine is rank...way dirtier than my bath mats & floor cloths!! Think animal faces/Blood/afterbirth etc it still all comes out clean...thats the point of a washimg machine surely ??

I wash everything in my machine except things which have done truly dirty jobs - like wiping my windowsills (because I don't clean them very often) - for those I use rags cut up from old t-shirts which I then throw away after one use.
If you think something is exceptionally dirty, put it through on a good hot wash - it's what it's for.

But I genuinely would like to know if I am being silly making the special trip to the launderette to wash these items.

Yes, sorry, but you are. Washing machines are designed to wash even things that are pretty dirty. Detergent and hot water are pretty effective. You must have realised that even if your two adults' clothes are somehow always relatively clean, other people have jobs which involve getting dirty, or have kids who get muddy, or occasionally actually spill stuff etc.

Besides which, I still don't see what in particular is going to make a bath mat sooo horrendously toxic that it can't be treated like normal washing!

OP, this is the sort of hygiene logic my mum used to use. She is both obsessive compulsive and phobic. Life hasn't been much fun for her. Believe me, what you're saying makes no sense.

Just wash everything in your washing machine unless the label states otherwise. Once a month clean the machine with a 90 degree wash. And don't spend any more time worrying. Three of your recent posts are about washing. Do you have OCD or emetephobia or other contamination worries? If you do please get some help to reduce your anxiety. It's not something most people give much or any thought.

I agree with a PP - OP you're a little bonkers in a lovely way 😬
I wash my bath mat (you say rug) maybe once or twice a week. If it's been stood on and is wet then I drape it over the side of the bath or shower door to dry. If not it would be damp for ages and be grubby and a bit smelly.

Kitchen cloths also get washed normally unless really grotty in which case I'd wash separately. No need for extra launderette trips!

Because we also use it to wipe the floor? I dunno, because it gets wet, and then it stays wet for a few hours, then gets wet over and over again...I guess in my mind, they become really dirty.

Well anyway, I'll start washing them on the machine.

And hang it up to dry between uses