[Ryannnn]

Re: Is this mould problem beyond repair?

See this is what I dislike about landlords.
Particularly ones for Student houses, they believe just because we are students occupying the house that we won’t care.
Or they are just genuinely that naive they never think to check they’re appliances each year before new occupants come in.

[Ryannnn]

Re: Opinions on Fabric softener?

kwatt wrote:You are correct Ryannn, fabric softener is not especially a good thing.

To be blunt, as one chemist that works on them told me, it’s basically a big bottle of grease with a nice smell.

That means it repels moisture so, absolutely no use and in fact detrimental on both towelling and bedding therefore should be used on neither at the very least.

There is also comment from within the fabric industry that it does shorten the life of garments and damages the fibres, which would give you colour loss.

But, people do spend a lot of money on the stuff. 😉

Great to hear someone agrees,
yes I hear a bunch of stylists say how it makes clothing look dull and isn’t really worth it for the benefits you get of using it.
To be honest unless your drying your clothes/towels on really high in a tumble dryer they shouldn’t feel like cardboard.
But I do actually prefer that rough feeling with a towel.
It gets
Heat will not fade colour so long as it is within the range the garment can take, usually determined by the care label (if it’s right) or the fabric type along with whether it is rated as being colourfast or not. Outside of those constraints there should be no issue.

K.

It’s Great to hear that someone agrees.
I hear from a bunch of stylists it does deteriorate your clothes which I can fully believe in.

But even if you were to go over the temperature I can’t really see how heat alone would fade the colour of a garment?

I don’t see how unless your drying your clothes/towels on a very high heat in the tumble dryer that they would come out feeling like cardboard.
Though I have to admit I do actually prefer my towels feeling quite cripsy as it helps to get you fully dry.
A bit like hotel towels.
Saves a lot of time too. And then there is no need to use any baby powder.

So you might think a nicer smelling towel works better when in actuality its inability to dry you as well has quite the opposite effect.

[Ryannnn]

Re: Opinions on Fabric softener?

It’s funny you would put that up because even they agree you shouldn’t use fabric softener on towels.
Should probably read your resources more thoroughly before insinuating I am an idiot lol

[Ryannnn]

Re: Opinions on Fabric softener?

Well I suppose the type of powder used can affect fading also but what about heat?
I know too high of a temperature is going to shrink fabrics but does that contribute to colours fading?

As for the cardboard feeling, I wouldn’t say its quite that bad, but then I don’t have a tumble dryer so I have to line dry or use a clotheshorse in the winter to dry all of my items.

I’ve even heard some say that fabric softener was a big cause of broken machines.

[Ryannnn]

Re: Miele Novotronic W864- 5kg load really?

https://www.dazwhite.co.uk/dosing.php
The Daz site shows that its based on the machine not the load

[Ryannnn]

Re: Miele Novotronic W864- 5kg load really?

i know the soiling level and water hardness factor in, however even though this is a hard water area i find usually using what is suggested for soft water sud’s up enough and stops it from getting to soapy.

By load size do you mean the weight of it or by how much volume is takes up?

Detergent producers say on the boxes how much to put in for an amount like 4kg-6kg and so on but are they referring to the washing machine size or the load size?

[Ryannnn]

Re: Miele Novotronic W864- 5kg load really?

So the only real use of knowing the weight of your load would be for dosing the correct amount of powder/liquid

[Ryannnn]

Re: Miele Novotronic W864- 5kg load really?

But then why do they bother stating weights? isn’t it pointless?

[Ryannnn]

Re: Miele Novotronic W864- 5kg load really?

kwatt wrote:Weight is irrelevant in large part. The weight is the absolute maximum permissible weight only, not volume.

Volume is far more important.

Explained more in depth here: http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/fix- … chine.html

K.

So you are saying I should just leave a 10 cm gap at the top?
you could still technically overfill a machine in doing that.
It depends if you have really squashed down your clothing.

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