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Re: Fairy Active Bursts
Sensibly Fairy recommends that you use rinse aid with Active Bursts but there are ingredients in there that means it isn’t strictly speaking needed. They just work better with it.
K.
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kwatt wrote:Sensibly Fairy recommends that you use rinse aid with Active Bursts but there are ingredients in there that means it isn’t strictly speaking needed. They just work better with it.
K.
Had to wait until today, not owning a dishwasher. Had a good look at a packet of Active Bursts in Iceland. There is no mention anywhere on the packet recommending usage of rinse aid. In fact quite the opposite. It says your dishwasher will work fine even if the rinse aid and salt lights are showing. It also says you do not need to use salt in 95{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of cases, unless your water hardness is above 26°e.
Slightly OT, but the new packaging and advertising for Ariel washing tablets is now covered in, TURN IT DOWN TO 30°. A cheap and easy way to espouse green credentials. If people do that it this very soft water area it will play havoc with the alloy drum supports. Again there is no mention anywhere on the new packaging to advise customers to do maintenance wash.
Jim.
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Yeah I know Jim, but none of the packs give very good advice .
Lower temp wash, well that’ll be competative advantage I guess. Let’s just hope it doesn’t backfire like Unilever’s Power Wash thing.
K.
Re: Fairy Active Bursts
So I take it that Fairy do recommend rinse aid on one hand but don’t on the other. 😕 :rolls: 🙂
Jim.
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iadom wrote
“Had to wait until today, not owning a dishwasher. Had a good look at a packet of Active Bursts in Iceland.”
Bloody long way to go to prove a point!! 😆
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I went to a Neff S5443X1GB/29 integrated dishwasher yesterday. The customer has never used salt in her machine throughout its short life (just 4 years old) but always used 3 in 1 tablets. And in the last 6 months has been using Fairy Active Bursts. Machine located in Basingstoke that has the hardest of hard water in the entire UK (but still under 26 d- e) and this machine was testiment to that sure enough.
The spray arms, dispenser lid and cutlery basket covered in white limescale deposits. The heater no doubt choked with limescale, but the killer stroke was when the motor seized and the coil caved in rendering the whole thing beyond economic repair!
OK so she didn’t read the small print on the packet, but why oh why do detergent manufacturers mislead consumers in this way? Proof if proof were needed that, unlike Ronseal, it don’t do what it says on the tin! :rolls:
Fairy Active Bursts wrote:….salt action is effective in soft, medium and hard water up to 26 (degree clarkes English) i.e 95{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of households.
COBBLERS….!!!!!!!!! :tdown:
It may wash the dishes mate but does bug all good to the machine unless salt is religiously added regularly in the salt container! 👿
I’m just wildly guessing here Martin, but I’d bet that there’s no way that the build up was caused in a mere six months to the extent you describe.
And, I very much doubt that Active Bursts could reverse the build up that was already there.
Also, did you test the water?
K.
kwatt wrote:I’m just wildly guessing here Martin, but I’d bet that there’s no way that the build up was caused in a mere six months to the extent you describe.
4 years the machine has been in daily use without salt Ken. And reinforces my point that detergent manufacturers mislead users over salt in their product as no substitute to using the integral softening system. :rolls:
kwatt wrote:Also, did you test the water?
Darn no….I forgot to take my devining rod…. :martin:
You don’t need a devining rod, just a water hardness test strip which you can get a pack of 100 or summat at a fish tackle shop for a couple of quid.
4 years if the dose was wrong or the water was over 26 Clarke is gonnna add up to a lotta damage. But I’d check the facts before making assumptions. 😉
K.
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In my new Fairy Active Bursts Dishwashing Guide it shows that each pouch contains similar active ingredients as washing machines. Namely oxygen bleach, surfactants, builders, enzymes, polymers and perfume. Also a photo showing and Active Burst pouch dropped into a large water filled container, dissolving quickly. The liquid in the pouch is a grease cleaning agent and the powder tackles the baked on deposits. All slushed around in the main wash no doubt?
The guide also emphasises the need for rinse aid and salt, the latter required for improved cleaning especially in very hard water areas.
All good stuff. 😉
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I went to a customer with a Bosch diswasher today. Their complaint was that the machine was not dissolving the tablets, most of which just lay in the bottom at the end of a cycle?
I thought it was the usual case of insufficient water circulation (i.e. blocked spray arms, low water level etc) only to find the machine operating perfectly? 😕
When I asked to see the tablets they were using??? : –
….these Waitrose branded lemon 5 in 1 tablets just didn’t dissolve even in boiling water 😯
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