soaking vs dry pailing

[sweetas]

pros and cons?

Further to my earlier post, have been doing this a couple of weeks now and won't go back, loads easier dry paling, mostly because I don't have to haul heavy bucket to toilet to empty off the water.

Yep, except I'm not even doing the tea tree. Bucket has a lid

tbh would have been a prob with ds but dd (touch wood) does lovely neat ones that fit on the liner and flush away.

Being a lazy thing, at the moment I just bung the dirty nappies straight into the bin, no teatree, no rinse, no trying to get rid of poo, then bung straight into washing machine when the bin gets full. Either a prewash or just a normal 40 degree wash depending on grottiness.

Question is though, does it ever harm the washing machine to have to deal with so much poo?

good to hear I'm not the only one to rinse pooey nappies under the tap! the whole 'just sluice them out in the toilet' thing just doesn't work for ds's, er, sticky poos!! I am also a soaker but reading these posts has convinced me to give dry-pailing a shot

i dry pail, but rinse them out in the sink first. if V pooey, sluice them in the toilet before that. have to be careful tho as flushed a fleece liner the other week

Ive done both and deffo for me dry pailing so long as you have a net in the bucket.

I dry pail. I have a wash net in the bucket, and put some white vinegar in the bottom to neutralise smells. Wet nappied go straight in and dirty nappies get rinsed under the tap then a quick spray of Vanish.

At wash time I just lift the net out and bung it in the washing machine.

I couldn't even begin to think about dealing with soaking and poo water

dry pail every time!

Dry pailing is the way to go! I started off using nappy soak with DD but quickly gave up cos of the sewage soup!

With the DTs I haven't bothered with it, just chuck them in the pail, then in the washing machine with some fabric bleach, washing powder and tea tree. Also put tea tree in the bottom of the pails before I wash them out and air them (occasionally!). Also occasionally use some borax in the wash. Nappies sometimes had the odd stain from bfing poo and now if I've left poo in a nappy by accident!. Usually put outside if that happens so the wind can blow the washed lentils off the nappies! TMI??

Ooh, forgot to say, don't use a net because I used to find they would come out in a big lump and not always washed in the middle. I do a big load at a time though - 2 buckets at once, so that's maybe why.

devondoris, I found my napies were still quite wet in the middle so I tighten the net but don't fasten it. The nappies work their way out of the net but atleast next time you handle them, they're clean!

i tip all lumpy poo down loo(we use fleece liners),and dry pail,in nappy mesh,when ive not found better use for it.i dont prewash either.i have muslin square soak in tea tree stuck to lid of ucket so only smeel in bucket is that.

Wrigglejiggle- the only thing I've found with washing pooey nappies is that i have to clean the fluff filter slightly more often to remove the various bits of carrot, peas lentils etc. they are all clean though so thats not too hard a task! DD also has very sticky poo and simply rinsing or flushing (does anyone actually find that works?!?) is never enough to remove any poo thats found its way onto the cloth so i usually dont bother, just flush the liner and throw the nappy into the bucket. I dry pail and dont actually find the poo smell escapes, although sometimes dd's wee really stinks and the smell of that manages to escape the bucket!

AG- for some reason my washing machine didn't get all the nappies out of the bag even if I had the top open. It also always turns duvet covers inside out and deposits a sock or pair of knickers in the furthest corner away from the opening. Just me??

right well have jusr started, so am on my first bucket! And it's soaking....
Reason being is that oodles of pooh came out of my boy last night (honestly quite spectacular and bad leakeage which is a whole other thread). I just thought if I left it it would never come off. V runny and yellow (tmi!) becasue he's breasfed only...... It has stained baby grows so any top tips re staining or do i just accept nappies are going to be stained?

before I started using cloth I asked on MN whether to soak or not and the general consensus was not to. My aunt says she used to soak her nappies, change the soaking solution once a day and wash once a week!

Hettie- sunlight for poo stains. It works!

agree with claireybee! Sunlight rocks!

drypail everytime. never used a prewash/stain remover and don't usually go above 60' (mostly 40') wash. do use disposable liners though (although some always manages to escape). nappies aren't stained - agree wholeheartedly with sunshine being good for stains - i love this weather...