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My wife is writing her shopping list.
Fabric Softener
Laundry Cleanser
Soap powder...
Oxy powder.
And it occurred to me. We now buy extra stuff to make the wash smell nice. Extra stuff go make the wash clean. Extra stuff to make it even cleaner and anti whatever.
Just what's left? Why are we even bothering with soap powder? Seems to me it's now redundant.
Any thoughts? Is this all a testament to the power of marketing?
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Yes, that's exactly what it is. Our machine (a Bosch) gets clothes perfectly clean with just an ordinary Ariel squishy tablet per wash.
A bit like engine oil additives, which I've never used yet I used to drive 30,000 miles a year at one time with no problems, just regular servicing. And that was in seven successive Renaults.
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Yes, that's exactly what it is. Our machine (a Bosch) gets clothes perfectly clean with just an ordinary Ariel squishy tablet per wash.
Talking of marketing...a liquid tablet...or just but a bottle of liquid detergent :-)
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Yes, that's exactly what it is. Our machine (a Bosch) gets clothes perfectly clean with just an ordinary Ariel squishy tablet per wash.
So did ours, but we found they were the cause of smelly, black deposits in the machine, along with 30 degree programs. Reverting to powder and higher temperatures solved the problem.
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Yes, that's exactly what it is. Our machine (a Bosch) gets clothes perfectly clean with just an ordinary Ariel squishy tablet per wash.
So did ours, but we found they were the cause of smelly, black deposits in the machine, along with 30 degree programs. Reverting to powder and higher temperatures solved the problem.
We had the same and cured it the same way, but do a mix of both, personaly I prefer the old type 2 connection washing machines so you can fill with hot water rather than it being one cold feed heated electricaly
and so much for being bio degradeable, the soaps now clean the roads as we get a downpour, apparently the soap gets into the sea and evaporates with the water, and comes down with the rain, hence soapy frothy roads
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Ebac, British maker, sell hot fill washing machines!
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I found the problem with 'hot fill' machines is that modern machines use so much less water that by the time hot water has reached the machine the valve has turned off, unless the machine is very close to the source of hot water.
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This is slightly different, though related. As a window cleaner, i spend a lot of time in folks gardens and am often amazed at how overpoweringly strong the smell of (presumably) fabric conditioner is. I do use fabric conditioner myself, the recommended dose, and it never smells that strongly. So i wonder why some folks seem to feel the need to overdose on the stuff?.
Kinda like the teenage boy with his Lynx, i'm often tempted to say, "you know you don't need to use the full tin every time"!.
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Kinda like the teenage boy with his Lynx, i'm often tempted to say, "you know you don't need to use the full tin every time"!.
With teenage boy's scant regard to personal hygiene, they probably need more than one tin.
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Kinda like the teenage boy with his Lynx, i'm often tempted to say, "you know you don't need to use the full tin every time"!.
With teenage boy's scant regard to personal hygiene, they probably need more than one tin.
Hee hee. A bit like pubs then, when they banned cigarettes there was nothing to mask the other vile odours.
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I do use fabric conditioner myself, the recommended dose, and it never smells that strongly. So i wonder why some folks seem to feel the need to overdose on the stuff?.
Its called not reading the instructions, I don`t know many people that do read instructions and just prefer to put the amount in they think is needed, same with manuals, not many read a manual and wonder why some things do not work properly.
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Ebac, British maker, sell hot fill washing machines!
Thanks for that, never heard of them before but look good, will have to wait untill our Samsung wears out
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I really dislike the smell of these so called 'fabric fresheners'. Our fabrics are fresh enough after a wash thank you! It is of course marketing that fools the simple minded, who believe without question what the advertisement states. Our Bosch washer is used at least 5 times per week on a short programme and fairly low temperature. 5 years down the line, no problems from or with the machine or the washing. SWMBO uses a box standard liquid which she buys from whoever has it on offer when she needs it. QED.
In my previous house I had the dishwasher and washing machines connected to the hot supply, which was very close to them. They were cold fill but worked without problem. The machines own immersion and thermostat brought the temperature to the required level if the domestic hot water was not hot enough. Reckon I saved a fair bit heating the water via gas instead of relying on the electric immersions in the machines.
Cheers Concrete
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My water supply to a bathroom had an airlock - this resulted in a hot water supply everywhere, including toilets. This is most definitely not recommended (!) and I got rid of the air lock pronto.
I've not seen Ebac wahers - but I've had one of their dehumidifiers for around 30 years and it's probably my most reliable domestic appliance.
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My water supply to a bathroom had an airlock - this resulted in a hot water supply everywhere, including toilets.
Shouldn't there be some demarcation betwen hot and cold? I don't understand how this could happen.
I moved into a house that had a 'semi primatic' hot water and heating system. It meant the hot water in the central heating was shared with the hot water taps - quickly replaced.
My daughter has moved into a relatively modern town house that has a hot water cylinder on the 2nd floor. It takes ages to get cold water in the ground floor lavatory, because I assume the hot and cold pipes run adjacent to each other.
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During the heatwave, for watering hanging baskets etc. running the bathroom taps until the water was hot we collected the cold in a bucket and used that.
The pipe from the boiler to bath holds 3 litres, which seems quite a lot (but only a quarter as much from boiler to k****** tap).
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Can't quite see how an air lock causes hot water to come out of the cold taps. Cold taps are generally mains connected and under pressure, hot is usually static pressure (tank in loft). To rid an airpock the cold can be connected to hot to 'blow' out the air lock. Airlocks usually stop circulation rather than re-route it. A primatic cylinder is fine unless you have solid fuel. The water temperature needs to be below 100C, which will scald you, or it blows out the air bubble in the primatic which separates the water from the boiler from the water from the tank for your bath etc. A normal gas boiler will not get your water that hot unless the thermostat fails. A blown primatic is easily rectified by draining the hot water cylinder. Upon refilling the air bubble is reinstated. fabric softener will not help this situation!!!
cheers Concrete
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