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Re: Looking at the ISE tumble dryer…
Good! A nice mid range one to match the ISE5 that wasn’t a condenser would be my personal choice. 🙂 A hot dry, a ‘warm’ one and a cold fluff program for softening line dried towels for a few minutes in th summer would be useful. I also like the idea of a cool finish: it helps to stop clothes left in the dryer after an over night tumble ( 😀 😀 ) to remain relatively crumple free. Please include the 23 hour delayed start that the washing machine has, as this is also a great feature.
I know – picky, fussy, demanding.. Gotta be Kate again! :rolls:
Re: Need to buy a new Washer-Dryer…Help I’m clueless!!!
My mum likes her Bosch one. It was the top of the range when she got it 5 years ago, and does very well. She too lacks the space for separate items, and is also an inveterate hanger out of clothes so they freeze stiff in the winter! 😀 She doesn’t use the dryer part all that often, but says it works well. The washer part is very good, she thinks. Having used it myself when staying with her, I think she’s right, but I also think I prefer my new ISE! 😉
Re: ISE5: IT’S HERE!
kwatt wrote:
It’s a trademark feature of my writing, almost right, but not quite. 😉So long as it all makes sense, makes it easy to operate and doesn’t confuse then job done.
Mine too, I’m afraid! How I managed to teach English for 20 years on and off , and sometimes up to A level (AND get an MA in modern lit!) as a dyslexic, will remain forever a mystery to one and all! It mainly attacks the spelling in my case. Thank the gods for spelling checkers! Now and again something odd gets through that, as they don’t read context. The results can range from the sublime to the illiterate! And it does all make sense, too. Infinitely better than a lot of the manuals you get, which read like they were translated from Japanese to Esperanto by an on-line translator, and THEN into English by a different one!
As or the slight smell, fret not! It wasn’t offensive: much better than some of the new machine/furniture/car pongs I’ve had in the past! Just a very faint whiff of rubber glove, and probably gone by now as I don’t remember it on taking the next load out. 🙂
Re: ISE5: IT’S HERE!
The manual is very logical, but the English teacher in me wants to take a red pen to it and correct the few punctuation and grammar errors! 😀 😳
The towels came out beautifully, and so has the synthetics load that followed it. I dropped the temperature on program 5 (resistant synthetics) to 40 degrees, as they really don’t need the higher temperature, and left the spin speed at 1200. Things seemed a little damper than with the old WP machine, but I always kept that at maximum for anything other than delicates or woolens or they came out soggy! Over night there’s another towel load in (only 5 more to go! :rolls: ), and I’ve set the delay to take advantage of the white meter. I love that feature! 😀
When I took the towel load out there was a faint smell of rubber gloves! I’m presuming that this is from the door seal and will fade. It hasn’t affected either the towels or the clothes that went in after them. I didn’t notice it when I put the second towel load in just now.
So far I’m a lot more impressed than I expected to be, and that’s even taking into account that a washing dolly and a coal fired copper would do better than the WP at the end! 😀 😀
Re: New ISE 5
WOO HOO!!
Machine to be delivered after 2:00pm tomorrow!
Thanks to one and all for advice and help. I’ll be sure to do a complete review of the machine over the next few days.
Re: XCans of worms disguised as boxes of washing powder…
Thank you. I shall look out for it when the currant vat of Persil runs low. Is it perfumed? I usually hate the perfumes… And does it only come as tabs? I prefer powder as it’s easier to adjust to a quarter dose to allow for the effects of the water softener.
Sorry I took so long to answer: I’ve not been too well – the fibro is being nasty at me!
Re: New ISE 5
Latest on delivery from the shop is ‘Towards the end of the month’… They are HOPING sooner, and seem to have quite a few folk awaiting these machines, but it looks like not next week.
This is a bit of a pain, as not only have I the washing of smaller items to organize, but piles of dirty towels and bedding and nowhere to store them, plus a need to get things scheduled so that I’m not trying to deal with a customer fitting when the machine is delivered, or trying to cut things out for customer projects while wading through piles of laundry… And making sure the parking is available and the way through cleared, the cats safely caged, the cutting table demounted…
I also need to have all the lad’s rugby/pe kit and uniform ready for the start of the new term, which isn’t going to happen if the machine isn’t delivered until after he goes back, which is what looks like happening.
When you work at home and have people coming in and out for fittings and consultations, there’s a lot more to organize than just getting the new machine in and fitted. I’m getting a bit anxious.
So long as I won’t shorten the life of the new machine by carrying on as before, it looks like that’s my best bet until someone brings out a scent free non bio eco-friendly powder that actually CLEANS clothes, I can get in the supermarket, and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. I don’t mind paying for quality, but not for rarity value on a washing powder!
I wasn’t seriously thinking of using Orvus myself as I had read the stuff about it being an irritant, ages ago when it was discussed on the quilt groups. I couldn’t see the point of swapping one irritant for another. And as I don’t have a top loader anyway…
Re: XCans of worms disguised as boxes of washing powder…
K, I read the first article very carefully before my original post. Unfortunately, after a series of hospital based tests many years ago, bio washing powder WAs one of the things I had a strong adverse reaction to… And certainly when I lived in Germany you could buy non-bio there in the local supermarkets. Mind you, that was in the seventies! 😆 And I have several multi-allergy pals across the world who bemoan the fact that they find non-bio powders so difficult to get, after undergoing a similar raft of tests to mine. Now the internet has given us a more global market, some of them are getting their non bio detergents from the UK. Many (especially in the USA, where top loading washers are the norm still) are still using things like Orvus rather than washing powders at all. It’s long been the detergent of choice for quilters… Also, my Persil is fine, but when I added some Vanish to it to help with stains on camping stuff, I got my classic reaction back. The Vanish is now restricted to non clothing items and anything washed with it is given an extra rinse cycle. I won’t be buying it again. I think I might save the rest of the tub for cleaning the floor.
I rarely have reactions to synthetic fibres themselves, though some chemical finishes can cause problems. These items are USUALLY OK after a few washes in Persil non bio.
Modern wicking fabrics used for hi-tec garments for extreme conditions (mountain equipment/clothing etc) expressly advise against the use of fabric conditioners as these block the micro pores that make the fabric work. For some fabrics and items (especially high loft items like sleeping bags, and Teflon coated Polartec and similar fabrics) I buy Nikwax washing products, none of which have bio enzymes in as they are deemed unnecessary and not good for the fabrics. They are also unperfumed. Because I’m allergic to wool, I love the hi-tec wicking poly fleeces and laminated fleeces. I’ve been using (sewing with them and wearing them) them for 20+ years.
What I REALLY want is a non-bio powder with no perfume! Ecover USED to be like that but was useless for cleaning. It got better, but then they perfumed it! Am I the only woman on the planet who loathes the stink of perfumed washing powders? I don’t even like the smell of Persil much, but at least I can use little enough of it that it very quickly fades and ceases to offend.
Now I’ve read you second article, I see my suspicions were correct: an unholy amalgam of snake oil and ad-speak! Thanks for the heads up!
Re: XCans of worms disguised as boxes of washing powder…
kwatt wrote:Kate have you ever thought about investing in an oxygen tent? 😆
Some days an oxygen tent sounds like a real option! Nah… 90{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of mine are straight forward skin reactions, so I just need to avoid physical contact with the offending substance.
kwatt wrote:TBH probably doing extra rinses wherever possible and programs with a higher water level will help. On the new ISE5 there’s a plus water function and you can always select to do an extra rinse cycle. However it is very unusual to come across anyone with such a severe reaction to, well, everything really.
I’m trying to avoid extra rinses, as I said in my original post, because of the cesspool drainage (and the sheer waste of treated water!). The vastly reduced detergent/soap/shampoo regime I follow because of the water softener certainly helps!
kwatt wrote:Whatever you do, especially with your own clothes, avoid rapid or quick washes as all of them have reduced rinsing.
I very rarely use them anyway… Maybe once or twice a year… Most of our stuff is too grubby for a quick wash! The only things that get that are sheets that have had a one-night guest, and the occasional needed-in-a-hurry swimsuit (and as I usually have between 4 and 6 of those at any one time, that’s not really an issue!).
kwatt wrote:If you use fabric softener I’d advise you to look at that as that often has more of an influence than the powder used when it comes to skin reaction. It is, quite literally, a one in a million chance that it’s the detergent that’s causing any reaction.
I never use fabric conditioner – see original post. And yes, I’m one of those one in a million! Bio powders eat my skin. I come out in a classic case of contact dermatitis after the initial nettle rash/flakes/dandruff routine… That sets off the excema, and then it takes MONTHS to clear up. Best not to let it start. My mum and brother are the same, and I have a cousin who’s another allergic to her own hair type! At least I’m not like my pal J, who is allergic to antihistamines!
Mostly, if I stick to the things I know, I get away with it. But I KNOW both fabric technology (I work with fabrics all the time, don’t forget!) and laundry technology have moved on since I bought the dead Whorlpoo, and I want to give my new machine the best chance to do its best for me.
Re: XCans of worms disguised as boxes of washing powder…
iadom wrote:We recommend THIS for our ISE machines, unlike Ecover it actually does what it says on the tin. 😉
Jim.
Yes, I used to find that Ecover didn’t wash as well as it might… Can I get a test sample of the non bio version to try? Or just a very little pack? I’d hate to shell out for something I found I couldn’t use..
And have you tested these things in ISE machines? http://www.lakeland.co.uk/product.aspx/ … shing!5718 I’m tempted but again reluctant to cough up for what may be little more than smoke and mirrors….
I’m trying hard to avoid the higher water programs and extra rinses because of the cesspool drainage issues…
