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Post# 555297 , Reply# 1 11/9/2011 at 03:11 (4,414 days old) by tolivac  (greenville nc) |
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should the man trying to wash one bathmat in his GE washer-instead to try do two mats of the same size?Maybe that would fix his balance problem.Blame the user more than the machine. | ||
| Post# 555298 , Reply# 2 11/9/2011 at 03:20 (4,414 days old) by qualin (Canada) | ||
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To Tolivac Perhaps, putting in two bathmats may have helped. In this case, the GE washer didn't have a functioning out of balance switch so it just kept banging away. Bad engineering or bad design I guess, plus user error. | ||
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Post# 555300 , Reply# 3 11/9/2011 at 03:23 (4,414 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc) |
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That is a good point he is making that his GE washer doesn't shut off and alarm when it goes Out of balance.Not a good thing on GE's part-or does the machine have such a thing but it isn't working?In that case GE should fix it under warratee. | ||
| Post# 555307 , Reply# 6 11/9/2011 at 05:28 (4,414 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
What? | ||
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Post# 555310 , Reply# 7 11/9/2011 at 05:38 (4,414 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Bath Mats With Towels?
Oh God no! That would be like washing a mop and your bath linens in the same wash load, IMHO. *LOL*
Unless changed and laundered quite often bath mats become quite filty not just from persons stepping out of the tub, but those using the "powder room" with their dirty shoes. There are several types of mats, but ones that cause most trouble in laundering are those with rubber backing. Have seen signs a public laundromats forbidding them to be washed in their machines as well. Apparently there is something about the backing that may flake off or something. Then there is the tendency for such things to ball up and when the washer goes into spin (especially front loaders) you have a big *bang* and or a load so unbalanced as to damage. Wherein lies the rub for washing bathmats in a front loader. You certianly need other things in that washer to make a balanced load, but what does one want to mix with *that* mat? Oh yes, IIRC the rubber backing can be attacked by LCB so getting around the *ick* factor bunging a cup or two of that substance into the wash often isn't on. | ||
| Post# 555312 , Reply# 8 11/9/2011 at 05:45 (4,414 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada) | ||
bath mats can not take hot water wash (but this depends on t | ||
| Post# 555318 , Reply# 9 11/9/2011 at 06:09 (4,414 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA) | ||
BathMats | ||
| Post# 555322 , Reply# 10 11/9/2011 at 06:40 (4,414 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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| Post# 555328 , Reply# 11 11/9/2011 at 07:13 (4,414 days old) by georgect (Fairfield, CT) | ||
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Post# 555343 , Reply# 12 11/9/2011 at 09:13 (4,414 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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 I have some bath mats I got a Target and at Sams. They are both sourced from the same mfg. they're all cotton and extremely heavy without rubber backing (I purposely chose these so I could wash them). There are two large size and two smaller size in the 4 of them total. I put the two large and one small one in a load in the Fridgemore. I may have washed them more than once, but no more than 3 times at the absolute most. They were so heavy when saturated I thought the tub was going to come totally unhitched from the struts. And I was using the handwash cycle so very little tumbling. Even with the tub quite full with those three mats, it still had some difficulty in balancing. They did cause one of the struts to come undone most likely. Garment care instructions say to wash them in cold water--they're made in India. I really don't have any extra towels I could have thrown in there to help balance. That was the last time I washed them in the machine. If needbe, I just wash them in the tub by hand. Pretty mad at myself for kinda messing up my machine. | ||
| Post# 555389 , Reply# 14 11/9/2011 at 12:25 (4,414 days old) by Iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas) | ||
 I wash mine in the FL'er. I wash on cold, gentle cycle (slow tumble/medium final spin) and hang them to dry. When washing just two, one large, one small, there was a balancing issue. So now I wash four, two large, two small and no problems. There is a little fuzzing when they are dried that is taken care of quickly with the hose end of the vacuum.
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| Post# 555395 , Reply# 15 11/9/2011 at 13:25 (4,414 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD) | ||
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in the neptune 3000 i wash mine in mah 3000 neptune-no problems at all. | ||
| Post# 555416 , Reply# 19 11/9/2011 at 14:47 (4,414 days old) by ptcruiser51 (Boynton Beach, FL) | ||
Definition please?
Everyone I know refers to a bathmat as the rubber thing with (usually) suction cups that goes INSIDE the tub to prevent slippage. What you stand on when you exit the tub is a drip mat. Then there's regular bathroom throw rugs and toilet lid covers. I don't use a bathmat, but if I did I think I'd just leave it in the tub when I wash it out once a week with some LCB. As for dripmats and throw rugs, the drip mat gets hung over the side of the tub to dry, then washed with the throw rugs that get washed once every two weeks in the commercial Maytag TL's we have here, and dried on a rack. Commercial dryers are murder on rubberized backing. When I replace them, I try to look for ones without that. Bed, Bath and Beyond usually carries them.
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| Post# 555418 , Reply# 20 11/9/2011 at 14:54 (4,414 days old) by dyson2drums (United Kingdom) | ||
Bath mats
I always wash bath mats on cottons 60oc with steam wash and 1400rpm spin. They're just standard white cotton but are quite heavy and the other set are white too but rubber backed. We've never had any problems, my old machine (dyson) used to lower the spin to 1100 or 800 in unbalanced conditions but the LG seems to go all the way to 1400 and balances really well!
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| Post# 555419 , Reply# 21 11/9/2011 at 14:58 (4,414 days old) by Iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas) | ||
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"Everyone I know refers to a bathmat as the rubber thing with (usually) suction cups that goes INSIDE the tub to prevent slippage."
That one stays in the tub and is soaked in bleach water. Then hosed down with the sprayer. I pull it up so the suction cups get a rest and a cleaning during this process and then it is hung on the back of the tub to dry until next usage. For those afraid of chlorine, I guess you can just hose them off with a milder cleaner. I don't believe in taking germ prisoners, My Dad used to fight athlete's foot all the time. I don't worry about it--Chlorine is your friend.
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Post# 555473 , Reply# 23 11/9/2011 at 19:58 (4,414 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan) |
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Tub mat: rubber suction cups
Bath mat: thick terry cloth Bath rug: bound synthetic potentially with rubber backing Bath carpet: unbound synthetic potentially with rubber backing, cut-to-fit I can see that a tub mat would not necessarily be good in a FL...bath mats would need to be done 2 at a time...rugs/carpets as they fit | ||
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Post# 555515 , Reply# 24 11/9/2011 at 20:50 (4,413 days old) by logixx (Germany) |
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Washing bath mats is not a problem in my Whirlpool. I did once wash a large door mat in it, though. While it went pretty okay and it did spin eventually, I don't think I'll do it again. The final spin was rather violent compared to a usual spin cycle. :) Watch:
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| Post# 555617 , Reply# 26 11/10/2011 at 08:14 (4,413 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA) | ||
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Confusing | ||
| Post# 555857 , Reply# 30 11/11/2011 at 04:47 (4,412 days old) by qualin (Canada) | ||
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Response to Malcolm Yeah, the mat I was referring to was the rubber backed kind with a rug ontop that you put outside of the bathtub. :) | ||
| Post# 555959 , Reply# 32 11/11/2011 at 15:39 (4,412 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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Qualin... Oh, have no fear, Australia is not that much different from North America when it comes to historical washer choice. 90% of us grew up with a top-load machine in the laundry. However, times change and people who purchase a machine different to what they are historically used to, do so in the knowledge that it will be different to use.
Least, they SHOULD think like that.
My mother went from a top-load Simpson fluid drive to a front-load ASEA nearly 23 years ago. It took her basically a a couple of weeks to feel right about what to do and how to do it. That is, to put everything she would normally put through (and more - there used to be a HUGE amount of hand washing in our house) and see it came out clean. Initially there were concerns about capacity and we did have one pretty indepth discussion about how full to fill it so she tried filling it to the top with the dirtiest clothes in the house - my fathers brick-laying work clothes and his gardening clothes. Warm cotton short wash and they were clean provided her with sufficient evidence that this small machine could clean better than her former (speed queen based) Simpson. All I did was repeat what the sales person told me - fill it up until the drum moves back and forth and then take one medium sized item out. Or, as has been described on here, 'until you can JUST get your hand on-top of the load' or 'to the top edge of the drum opening'.
I don't know about over there, but here, owners manuals seem to always advise 'comfortably full' or something similar. To me, and I'm sure many others, that means 'FULL', but not stuffed...but doesn't mean half full or 3/4 full.
Finally, people who purchase something different to what they are used to should be prepared to complete the cycle of change and learn how something different works, including, in the case of a washing machine, how to load it appropriately, type of detergent to use etc. It does get a little tiring hearing about how people are used to type 'X' and now don't like type 'Y' because it's different in some particular way. | ||
| Post# 556047 , Reply# 33 11/11/2011 at 23:35 (4,411 days old) by qualin (Canada) | ||
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Thanks Ronhic. Well, I learned something interesting! I thought that Australia laundered the European way due to 50 hz / 220 volt power. Thanks for the information. To PassatDoc: I think I'll consider purchasing non-rubber backed mats from now on due to their short longevity. | ||
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Post# 556060 , Reply# 34 11/12/2011 at 01:17 (4,411 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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I never had problems with washing my rubber backed bath rugs. Not even when I am washing only one. I have an Ikea bath rug with rubber back, my AEG takes well care of it. AEG, being fussy with spinning, never has a problem to balance one bath rug.
Ofcourse I never put a rubber backed bath rug in the dryer. That ends their life much sooner. | ||
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Post# 556110 , Reply# 36 11/12/2011 at 12:40 (4,411 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California) |
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I've been washing a variety of rubber backed bath (drip) mats and rugs for a decade now in the Neptune 7500 with no major problems.
I take care to use only a very gentle liquid laundry detergent, never a powder. Powdered detergents are much more alkaline and can attack the rubber. I also use the warm (105F) temperature setting. The wash cycle (regular or gentle) doesn't seem to make much difference, nor does the spin speed. I try to line dry the rugs as much as possible, weather permitting, but mechanical drying works fine, although I use a lower temperature setting and normal dry moisture setting (as opposed to "more dry" or "very dry". For natural fiber (cotton or bamboo) I'll often run a line-dried mat through a no-heat fluff cycle in the dryer. I have noticed that some rubber backings deteriorate much faster than others. Some deteriorate just lying of the floor with no washing. I avoid those. The best mats I have run across are a bamboo fiber based bath mat with a very minimal rubber coating on the underside. It gives them just enough grip but doesn't flake off that I can see. | ||
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