Help - my beautiful cloth nappies smell and I can't fix it

[ahedgehogisdueinMarch]

Title says it all really - I have a range of nappies and both DH and my CM have commented on the fact that they smell

My stash includes
Tots Bots
Motherease one size
Sandys
Bumgenius V2
Modern Baby pop ins

I thought that I had stripped them in that I washed them normally and then spent a day in the house rinsing them every time it finished, but it doesn't appear to have worked, prob about 8-10 times

I currently wash them on 60 as I thought that maybe at 40 they weren't getting clean enough and use 1 tesco bio tablet (although that will change shortly)

I dry pail and wash every other day

The last lot I washed I did prewash and DH has says that they don't smell as bad - I am drying them on an airer inside at the moment.

DH says that the only option left is to start wet pailing and soaking which I really don't want to do as I am 35 weeks pg with DC2 and don't want to be hauling buckets of water and nappies all over the place.

The only thing I can think to do is change my liners as I am using fleece but DS's poo's at the moment are very runny and cannot easily be flushed as they cover all the nappy not just the liner.

If you need anymore info let me know

Thanks for reading

its a build up of powder and the lack of rinse thats causing the problem.

use a powder not a tablet in the wash, using bio is fine i personally find it works better
a dash of vinegar in the wash can help in the softner drawer. (i take it u know not to use normal softner )

always do a cold rinse first, as otherwise the heat of the wash can set the smell in the nappies.

you need to strip them fully, someone else will come on with more experiance most likely, i think you have to do a full powder wash at 60, then now powder full wash at 40, then rinse until suds have gone.. but i could be wrong, ive not yet had to strip any of my new nappies, tho i have had a preowned one that i had to soak in vinegar for three days

Shameless BUMP as I really need to stop them smelling

get them outside on washing line
wash in vinegar..
Sure there are more, can't remember just now!

not sure if this helps at all?
I did a google search for stripping nappies and found a ton of other stuff?
Seems to be a good tip to clean out the washing machine first, hottest wash you have with vinegar in the draw, also take the draw right out and give it a good wash, will help with all your washing!

already do use vinegar so will up the quantity

Am washing line less at the moment so will put the airer on the patio

Any tips on how many times I should be rinsing to strip them?

sorry, am no expert, but apparently the vinegar will neutralise the ammonia-urine smells, so i guess i would wash on 60 degrees with a lot of vinegar with a prewash and extra rinse. then take them out and dry them and see how they are then.
Sorry can't be more helpful!!

sorry forgot to add, did you run your washing machine empty on hot wash to rinse out all the pipes etc? It might be that if it is gunked up inside, the rinse is less effective than it could be!

soak cloth nappies in a bucket of rain water. (you'll see the detergent residue cloud the water) spin dry.