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Thread Number: 76698
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
King sized bedding laundry chore |
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Post# 1005605 , Reply# 1 8/31/2018 at 13:59 (2,058 days old) by ea56  (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Good for you David! I too have been washing all of our king sized bedding at home for over 30 years, with regular machines, both TL and FL and never had a problem with getting them clean.
Fortunately, the current Maytag TL we have doesn’t require any hands on help for these large items, other than loading and unloading. True, some machines aren’t going to give vigorous turn over for some large items, like a down comforter or pillows. But really, how dirty are these things getting anyway? Just the saturation and soaking with hot or warm water and detergent, rinsing and a good spin out are all they need to freshen right up. Personally, I feel much more confident that they are getting clean in my own machines than some large commercial laundromat machine, that has been used before me with god know what going into it. The chances of coming home with some contamination using one of these machines is a risk I can do without. Just think about the person that has an infestation of lice, that takes everything they own to the laundromat, loads up one of these 40 pound machines, uses warm or cold water, no disinfectant and not enough detergent, leaving behind “crawly’s” that will latch onto the next users laundry, no thank you! Eddie | ||
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Post# 1005619 , Reply# 2 8/31/2018 at 16:44 (2,058 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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 David, congratulations. Glad the results were more than satisfactory. I was literally thinking about you yesterday wondering how y'all were doing and it approaching the end of the tourist season.
I love the My Pillows we have. I just follow the instructions. Wash every 3 months, warm water. Dry on high heat as directed for an hour. It's the only time I use timed dry lol.
And, happy birthday 2 weeks early. | ||
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Post# 1005742 , Reply# 3 9/1/2018 at 10:46 (2,057 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Happy Saturday David! It is good to see a posting from you. Does this mean that your season of directing and aiding tourists is slowing down? Best wishes to you both. Tom | ||
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Post# 1005761 , Reply# 4 9/1/2018 at 12:44 (2,057 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Sounds like a good day for laundry there, David. I usually do bedding on good-weather days so everything can be dried and fresh smelling without constant attention to baling and rolling in a dryer.
Your laundromat experience is odd, LCB smells should be gone relatively quickly but I had a similar experience with a Lysol disinfectant used in a triple-loader before me once as well. It took several washings to get the smell out of down filling. I have a king-size guest bed and when I was washing the hypo-allergenic comforter last fall, I tired it in my 2014 Whirlpool Duet which gave up and cried for help after only a few minutes. I pulled it out, dripping, and put it into my 1964 Montgomery Wards top-loader and it ran through the entire cycle without assistance or complaint. Sometimes, you need an vertical axis :-) ' | ||
| Post# 1005767 , Reply# 5 9/1/2018 at 14:02 (2,057 days old) by good-shepherd (New Jersey) | ||
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reeking of chlorine bleach Personally, I like the faint scent of chlorine bleach. Smells sanitized and makes me think I'm sitting poolside somewhere. | ||
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Post# 1018463 , Reply# 7 12/18/2018 at 23:30 (1,948 days old) by dylanmitchell (Southern California) |
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Laundromat takes me three loads for a comforter
Just did a King Comforter at the laundromat cost almost $20 and about 2 hours of time but I'm happy with the result. Put some vinegar in an old laundry bottle I'd rinsed out, took a couple peresil pods and some phosphate in a ziplock, and headed to the laundromat. The first load was just the vinegar on the hot setting, the second load was the soap, phosphate, and king comforter and the third and final was rinse only.
You wouldn't believe how much soap the vinegar only hot water cycle takes out of the machine, then the comforter got washed, and finally rinsed before going home to my dryer where I carefully ran it on low and rotated it a few times. The laundromat I got to has free inexpensive soap people use tons of so the machines and dispensers get crusted up with soap. I may be the only one that runs a pre-wash clean cycle but it's worth it to me. And the machines run so quickly through cycles I find a final rinse only cycle is worth it. All much easier to do when your lucky enough to have machines at home for regular laundry and only occasionally go to the laundromat. | ||
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Post# 1018529 , Reply# 8 12/19/2018 at 18:10 (1,947 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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Post# 1018549 , Reply# 10 12/19/2018 at 20:40 (1,947 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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