Washer Snagging Towels
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Comments (17)I just ran across this thread while looking on the internet for flooring to patch an old wood floor. Very interesting thread. Could someone tell me a good place on Garden Web to find a thread about removing sticks of the old floor and replacing. I found information on utube but not about how to figure how much flooring to purchase. Mine will need repair much like mrplows. I have one very bad area which will need thirty two 2 1/4 wide sticks. Each stick would only need to be 8 inches long which is because a wall was torn out and there was no hardwood under that wall. I will need to figure out how much wood to get to make the lengths varied. My other area needs fourteen of the 2 1/4 and each is 60 inches. I have a feeling I am going to need to purchase a lot of hardwood for the repairs. Thanks for any information....See MoreMusty Towels...left wet in the washer.
Comments (18)I've heard this scare before and did some research. I can find no reputable source which confirms that Tide has ever contained chlorine bleach. What got me to research this a bit is that it just doesn't make sense when you use some logic and common sense! Chlorine bleach kills enzymes which are a big part of the cleaning performance on most P&G laundry detergent products. Furthermore, if you read the labels on both bleach and laundry detergents, most recommend if you use chlorine bleach, you should add the chlorine bleach about 10 minutes (or so) into the cycle. This is consistent with the above since it gives the enzymes the chance to do their job and it doesn't matter if they get killed off. Then the bleach has the chance to do its job. I understand caution about mixing chemicals, but some people go overboard about it. Theory isn't fact. The major explosions that are a potential just haven't proven to be as dangerous as some suggest. I can't even find one documented explosion. Are there some safety concerns? Yes. Should we be running around like Chicken Little claiming the sky is falling? No. Good grief, some people would have Homeland Security at the checkouts to see if we're buying bleach and ammonia! Use common sense and be educated. That's the best recommendation I can give. After all, we're talking about washing clothes here fer cryin out loud! :) Back onto original topic: I like Borax and vinegar as the most common additives in laundry and especially for smells. I'd use the Borax first, then try the vinegar. If you have a chance to hang the items outside in bright sunshine it can do a marvelous job of deodorizing unless you're in a neighborhood with bad odors anyway! I would also run an empty load in the washer with bleach and maybe a Borax cycle too with hottest water to deodorize the machine itself. Occasionally I sense a sour smell in my machine if I haven't done many hot loads and will do this as a maintenance item. Worked well for me. And no explosions! ;) Happy laundering everyone....See MoreSpeed Queen snagging
Comments (3)Actually, using sand paper on stainless steel is a good idea. You're certainly not going to harm the SS. Nor will it hurt the plastic agitator. Sequentially finer grits until it passes the panty hose test....See MoreWho has towels that once washed don't have any thread pulls??
Comments (17)I was thinking it could something else you put in the washer with these towels; items with zippers or snaps. But you wrote above that you wash towels alone, so that's that. The quality of textiles in general has gone downhill in the last couple of decades and even moreso in the last 5+ years. The quality that used to be, is absent. However, I've had very good luck with towels from Costco. The Charisma brand. I have an overly exuberant Speed Queen toploader that chomps up lots of items, except for the towels I get at Costco. I have a couple of snags like you mention here and there, but I wash whites/lights together which is mostly towels, undershirts, socks. But sometimes I'll throw in something else that fits the color catagory and it might have buttons, snaps or a zipper. Likely the once in a great while loop snag is coming from that....See Morecryptandrus
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