Miele honeycomb drum: does it damage cotton clothes?

Re: Miele honeycomb drum: does it damage cotton clothes?

Hi

Most likely to be The detergent rather than the machine. General rule of thumb is liquid detergent for coloureds and biological powders for white cottons only. If you tend to use powders on coloured items they tend to fade due to the bleach contained in biological powders.
HTH.

Del

Re: Miele honeycomb drum: does it damage cotton clothes?

Hi,

What Del says, but he forgot something. 😉

If you don’t follow the care labels for wash agitation then cotton fibres will become damaged, hence look old. This is made considerably worse on the likes of, for example, printed cotton t-shirts with a logo on it etc. as the fibres will split and “poke through” the print making it look faded prematurely.

The main EU wash symbols, kinda de-crypticised are available from this link

The worst of it is, if they’ve not been washed in accordance with the instructions (and we’d know as would the manufacturers and detergent whizz kids ;)) then there’s no possible claim you can make for the ruined clothing either.

As for the honeycomb drum, I don’t have enough data on those machines to pass any sort of comment or judgement although I’d be surprised, a lot, if Miele put a machine out that was below par.

Hope that helps.

K.

Re: Miele honeycomb drum: does it damage cotton clothes?

Press release from Miele. I don’t believe any other manufacturer’s claims until the product is proven and I won’t apologise for not believing Miele either without proof. 😉

Sadly, all too often the claims made, shall we say, are a tad optimistic at best. So I rely on field feedback and/or proof/data from actual users as well as any lab data I can glean. Without evidence, it is a claim, not a fact.

We’ve seen them all, you know the type of thing… like silver nitrates can sterilise your clothes, you can wash without detergent, you can use this little ball and, honest it’s magic… really, it works…

Uh huh, much of the claims are nothing but a modern day equivalent of an old thing commonly known as Snake Oil, or “SCAM” for short.

K.

Re: Miele honeycomb drum: does it damage cotton clothes?

Del wrote:If you tend to use powders on coloured items they tend to fade due to the bleach contained in biological powders.

For coloureds it’s best to use powder (or liquid if you prefer) marked ‘Colour’ (usually in purple packaging) which doesn’t contain bleach yet has enzymes for that essential ‘biological’ stain removing action. 😉

Edit: Just realised you are located in Italy so maybe detergent packaging is different there? 😕

Re: Miele honeycomb drum: does it damage cotton clothes?

That is interesting, as the brochure I looked at stated something like ‘Miele performs the silk-stocking test…’ This is apparently, a check to ensure that the drums cannot snag delicate fabrics.

I don’t like to say this, but by the looks of Miele’s newest range of machines (more plasticky), there may be an increase in faults reported.

Re: Miele honeycomb drum: does it damage cotton clothes?

Perhaps there were a batch of poorly manufactured drums, that found their way onto the Italian market. Certainly seems odd, as Miele machines are usually beyond reproach.