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How to clean cloths used to clean bathroom?

38 replies

FineCotton · 15/02/2024 02:06

When I put bathroom cleaning cloths into the new front loader washing machine I run them once on a full circle once with just water. Then I add a bit of a laundry detergent and do a second cycle to get the cloths properly clean, and its then that I end up with water and suds all over the floor from the machine leaking.

The machine does not leak when doing other laundry loads. Just the cleaning cloths.

I don’t know how to get the cloths clean enough without using some detergent. Traces of the cleaning products must still be present on the second cycle and when mixed with detergent it causes the overflow.

How do others clean their bathroom cleaning cloths?

TIA

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FiveShelties · 15/02/2024 09:23

Hiding the thread now. ?????

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 15/02/2024 11:36

I just use spray and loo roll to clean the loo and other clots just go on with normal wash. There's a lot of over thinking going on here!

Rosesanddaisies1 · 15/02/2024 11:40

I just chuck them in a normal wash?

Katypp · 15/02/2024 16:27

I don't understand the way some people treat cloths that have been used to clean the bathroom as if they are hazardous waste.
I don't even understand why people have colour-coded ones for bathroom and kitchen.
All are washed, all are clean, all is good

StephanieSuperpowers · 15/02/2024 16:37

Yep, for me they go into a towel wash. We dried our arses with those towels, the cleaning cloths aren't going to be any the worse for it.

viques · 15/02/2024 16:46

Katypp · 15/02/2024 16:27

I don't understand the way some people treat cloths that have been used to clean the bathroom as if they are hazardous waste.
I don't even understand why people have colour-coded ones for bathroom and kitchen.
All are washed, all are clean, all is good

You don’t do blue for the loo and pink for the sink? Shocked I am, shocked. Nurse, please fetch my little pills and the fainting couch.

betterangels · 15/02/2024 16:49

Soontobe60 · 15/02/2024 06:08

My god, what a faff!
I clean my bathroom using a bathroom spray, wipe over with a cloth, rinse the cloth in hot water then all the cloths go in the washer with tea towels, kitchen cloths and hand towels on a 60 degree wash.
Stop wasting water and energy folks!!!

This. I'm not about to make more work for myself than necessary.

uncomfortablydumb53 · 02/03/2024 16:24

I rinse them and throw them in with everything else
I spray toilet seat with cleaner and wipe round with toilet roll then flush

EchoChamber · 02/03/2024 16:30

BabySleep10Weeks · 15/02/2024 07:23

I just put them on a normal wash with everything else and I'm a self confessed germaphobe. The antibac/bleach sprays you use when cleaning will kill germs anyway

This.

Pigtailsandall · 02/03/2024 22:11

I do have colour-coded cloths for different areas, but I think it comes from working as a cleaner as a student - so I have pink (bathroom), blue (kitchen) and yellow (dusting and windows). But I just chuck them in with other household stuff like the bathmats etc. I have enough for about 3 weeks anyway.

Anything particularly gross like poo or blood, I just use a piece of kitchen roll.

EatSprayGlove · 02/03/2024 22:29

I just put them in with the appropriate load usually dark synthetics. Never have any issues. I also put the "disposable" ones if I ever end up with any in the wash in a bag and they last a good few weeks. I do use toilet roll to clean the toilet though and bin that but if I used a cloth I'd put it in a separate wash as with washable nappies.

Jonismorf · 02/03/2024 22:35

It's news to me that people wash cleaning cloths! I give them a quick rinse in the bathroom sink and leave them over the bath to dry a bit.

norasand · 02/03/2024 22:43

I wash all cloths at 90. The washing machine needs a proper hot wash regularly anyway to keep it from ponging.
Couldn't bring myself to wash them with clothes or towels because dirt/chemicals/random collection of colours - well except for the dog towels. I do have an embarrassing quantity of them though, so the load doesn't go on too empty -

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