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Thread Number: 83180
/ Tag: Detergents and Additives
Detergent dosing & Over Sudsing |
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Post# 1074967 , Reply# 1 5/30/2020 at 10:05 (1,426 days old) by DADoES  (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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 Towels can be more tricky to dose detergent than other fabrics, and more likely to cause sudsing and carry suds into the rinse periods. The thick, absorbent fabric tends to retain more residual detergent. I don't have that problem with my towels, TBH. My bath towels are smaller and less-plush fabric than the thick, beach-sized towels that are popular nowadays. RJ's dryer went down last week. He brought over a Bobload® of towels to finish. The load needed to be rewashed (for reasons). No suds-lock occurred but I noticed considerably more residual froth in the deep rinse than I've ever seen on any of my loads, which led me to run an additional rinse. | ||
| Post# 1074982 , Reply# 2 5/30/2020 at 11:35 (1,426 days old) by roscoe62 (Canada) | ||
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Additional rinse That being said,an additional rinse and moderate the detergent, the borax as a booster should be fine, if not time will tell. Thanks for your help. | ||
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Post# 1074987 , Reply# 3 5/30/2020 at 12:32 (1,426 days old) by mrboilwash (Munich,Germany) |
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Apart from being more absorbent than many other fabrics and thus carrying more detergent laden water into the next rinse after each spin a towel load often contains only a fraction of the body oils and soils of an average load of clothes that have been worn all day long. So less detergent may be needed than on other loads.
Waterlocks triggering a washer`s sudslock routine may happen on towel loads too due to their absorbency even if there isn`t excessive sudsing going on. | ||
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Post# 1075054 , Reply# 6 5/30/2020 at 19:45 (1,426 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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When possible like to do all towels/wash cloths in one load for several reasons.
One of course is that they often aren't badly stained (well hand/face towels can be.. boys will be boys and all that), but also can use very hot water to sanitize (140F or above). Older Miele was nearly useless for this because if too much water and froth came out at start of first (and only) long spin after several rinses, pump would choke and machine would slow spinning down. If spin cycle timed out before machine could get back up to speed, tant pis.... In fact owners manual for this Miele clearly states when doing "absorbent" loads it is best to only half load tub. Now more modern AEG Lavamat has no issues; since everything is computer controlled it will vary spin and pump action to suit water/froth conditions, and still give a good wash. Don't do heavy thick cotton blankets in either, they go into the Maytag wringer. The things simply hold too much water and become very heavy which often results in unbalanced spin cycles. | ||
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Post# 1075061 , Reply# 7 5/30/2020 at 20:55 (1,425 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1075115 , Reply# 8 5/31/2020 at 13:30 (1,425 days old) by SudsMaster (SF Bay Area, California) |
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