About to pre-wash my MCN... HELP!!!

[Pretty Butterfly]

Thankyou!!!

Ill throw the liners in, and hang the covers over the clothes horse!!

[Pretty Butterfly]

Okay, while I'm here, what about when they are dirty??

I'll be washing off the "dirties" and dry pailing, as all my nappies say to.

Should I use warm or hot water then?
Rinse twice??
Put them on the long soak cycle?

They will be line dried whenever possible...

[Sair]

I use a 60 wash usually and once a month or so a 90 wash when dirty. Definitly rince twice and only use 1/4 detergent. I don't use the cold wash on dirty nappies because I just don't think they would get clean enough.

[*Efjay*]

I don't have hot water at my machine so its always a cold wash, I don't rinse twice either as I am on tank water. I do the longest cycle on my machine though.

[Karina]

I also dont have hot water for my machine, so its always a cold wash. I also just use about half the amount powder for the nappies. I wash all the nappies together. i dont bother with seperate loads for differnt types of nappies. I've never had a problem with them not coming out clean after a cold wash (except for my bumgenius... dont know why but its just harder to get clean than the others). I dont usualy rinse twice. Only if theyre super dirty, but I always found newborn poo was pretty easy to get off and never needed a second rinse.

When theyre dirty I roll the dirtiness into the loo and dry pail it. Drying in the sun is really good for them as it bleaches them and they look cleaner. I try to line dry them but sometimes its just not possible and I have to put them in the dryer on the warm cycle (not the hot - it wrecks the pul.. still trying to get DH to understand this concept.)

[Pretty Butterfly]

You seriously wouldn't read about it.....


I'd put on an empty cycle, to clean the machine in case it done something to my new nappies... and it conked out!!!

The darn thing wont drain....
Adam has been outside, in the rain, trying to fix it.

He just called me out, and he'd found 1 sock and 5 bra underwires clogged in the draining pipe!!!!

So he's putting it back together for me now.... poor Ad....

[ll80]

so it's true, Washing Machines DO eat socks!!