Is this an ok plan for washing my nappies?

[soon2befamilyof4]

We are in the process of (hopefully) going back to washables. I can't afford the out lay all at once so am going to have to combine with disposables for a while and put the money we save from not buying as many disposables, towards getting some new nappies each month.

ANYWAY. Because we don't have many, I don't have enough for a full load.

I want to get the balance right between a)being environmentally friendly (and keeping costs down and b) being hygienic!

I was thinking about, each day, putting any used nappies through a "rinse and spin" cycle and then adding the rest of my washing to that after and doing on a normal cycle? Although not too sure about the washing powder side as isn't it better to use half the amount of washing powder for nappies?

Really hate the idea of washing half loads all the time though!

I just bung them in every day, make up the load with whatever needs doing, & use half as much powder as you're 'supposed' to.

If I can, it's a 60 wash with towels & bedding, otherwise it's a 30 wash with dark coloured clothes.

Either way it all seems to come out fine!

The only time it's a problem is heavily soiled light coloured clothes - they do seem to need more powder/heat, so I either don't mix them with nappies or (if cheap kids' clothes) throw caution to the winds & bung them on at 6o with nappies.

Thanks for that. In a couple of months I should have 2 in washables so I would think we would have enough for a full wash of nappies everyday? So its only a tempory thing really.

DS doesn't poo every day, so if it's a 'non poo' nappy bucket, I just stick it in with some normal washing to make it up to a full load (no pre-rinsing ), but if there's a pooey one I either do a rinse cycle before putting the rest of the wash in, or do a half load for that wash.

If you have a new fancy washing machine it will have a weighing facility and will use less water for smaller loads (my mother's does this ), but my washing machine is from the dark ages and not very clever. It actually has a page in the instruction manual reassuring people that 'an automatic washing machine is capable of washing your clothes as well as a manual one'

I rinse nappies at the end of every day (no spin, straight into a bucket afterwards), and then do a hot wash every 2 or 3 days. If I need to wash earlier I make up the load with towels, bedding, muslins and microfibre floorcloths.

I have 2 in cloth and yep you will definately soon have enough for a load a day
Up until then i cant see any problem with washing with other clothes if the nappies hsve been rinsed first

afterglow, the only reason why the "spin" is because that is the only rinse setting on my machine!

It is only a couple of years old, but was the cheapy one so quite basic.

I have no only rinse setting either - v. cheap machine. So I put them a pre-wash with the mini load button pressed instead, prior to washing them with towels.