white towels now grotty pink

[hatstand]

I've got some nice new white towels which someone put in the washing machine with RED pillow cases. (need a job doing properly ...and all that ). That dylon colour run stuff hasn't done the job - can I / should I bleach them?

(also - do you think we should have a "domestic" section??! What would it get called and wouldn't someone get offended...?

Are they 100% cotton, if so I would bleach them but only in a very dilute solution. Or you try bleach in the machine. Nothing to lose!

bleach, colour run remover is rubbish.

Bleach - and lots of it
should get your washing machine all clean too!

A domestic section? Yes, you could call it "Don't let your husband wash your new raw silk white blouse with all the other whites"
Not that I'm bitter...

tillykins!

yes, would do mild bleach and then if any sun, chuck them outside on the line for a bit (always seems to do the trick)

At least yours knows how to turn the washer on!!!!

you can also get a product by Dylon called Dygon - for this very purpose!

It will wash out gradually - I washed some assorted coloured towels with a dark green sheet recently and they all came out with a v greenish tinge, but it is going slowly, so don't worry too much, hatstand.

Wash them a lot at 90 degrees or whatever the label says.

If it doesn't come out you could dye them a darker colour, our white towels have strange rust marks on them but they are brown so not pleasant looking so I am considering dying them.

I would bleech them as well (worth a try)...

also be sure to wash using a powder for WHITES (ie not a 'colour' product or a non bio liquid, in order to have the bleeching agents in the detergent, and line dry to get the good old fashioned sun bleaching them as well!

Dying them sounds like a good option. Get a machine dye from Dylon -I've used them to dye all sorts ( including muslins which were a little stained and discoloured after DD -dyed them blue for DS and have had loads of comments of "ooh where did you get those...")

blimey - still going ay...what are those funny rust like spots you sometimes get on towels? have to say I'm not entirely sure who to blame - dh left a random / unsorted pile of washing on the kitchen floor, nanny put it in the washing machine. They have contrived between them to make it look like an accident with no perpetrator. grrrr. The silver lining is that having white towels has been driving me bonkers - they look dirty within a day. So have been hankering after some pale grey ones. perhaps I can justify it now...or maybe I should throw the dirty pink ones in the machine with dh's black socks...

I am attempting to see a similar lining in the fact a cheap dip-dyed Indian skirt has dyed a pair of cotton trousers that really do need a proper change of colour (suspect rust-coloured patches look horribly as if I've pooed in them, frankly, and now I have to do a proper machine-dye job) and a T-shirt which though charming was only a fiver from Primark.

Pah.

love the idea od a domestic section

bagsy moderator

perhaps we could call it domestic godessery

Or Domestic Hiss.

i want to call it cods clique

drudges united? (bound to get someone going

Scrubbers unite

hmmm. I'm pretending to be a domestic drudge wondering round the house, bleaching towels, sorting washing out, tapping away on mn, while dh entertains his cousin. Have run out of things to do. Best go and be sociable.