I have an Electrolux 7kg front loader. I normally stick my nappies in with DH's work uniform every night so they are done at 40 degrees which takes 2 hours. We haven't had any problems with cleanliness, in fact they are cleaner and smell better then my old clunker of a water wasting top loader
]Top loading Fisher and Paykell here about 7 years old now, but we have never hadany issues with nappies at all - even on the shortest cycle and one rinse
I swaer by my washer and having had a Simpson, an LG frontloader piece of crud, and two F&Ps the F&P wins hands down.
It is fairly large 8 kg from memory and cost about $500 (7 years ago). Love and hope it never dies lol
I have a bosch front loader and it's wonderful. Every month I do an intensive wash and I've never had to stripwash DD's nappies
Just checking though how do you wash them? Do you do a pre rinse at all? Do you use hot water? Maybe you just need to do a longer and more intensive cycle that drains and replaces the water rather than a higher water usage one. My intensive wash with pre rinse takes 3 hours!
we bought our bosch front loader about 8 months ago and haven't had any problems at all. washes the nappies great! for the really *intense* dirty nappies i throw the bulky stuff down the loo and throw it in the machine. depending on smelliness we either do it on the mixed load wash or on one of the hotter washes. (either 57 mins or 1h12mins). HTH! (this machine is really great on water usage too).
I'm another FP fan. I just use the regular cycle. Takes less than half an hour.
I always use cold and rarely prerinse - only if there's a really mank one
Wow, thanks everyone for your amazing feedback! Sounds like you're all in nappy heaven!
Raven here's what we're currently doing for every wash, which just gets the nappies clean - ie no smell:
Rinse each of the 3 year old's nappies by hand as we take them off her
We use paper liners in every nappy.
Dispose of poo in the loo & rinse off any eccess
Pre-rinse in the machine
Set the machine on heavy duty, 60degrees, high water level. Trick the machine into putting twice the water it intends too in. This cycle does it's own pre-rinse on top of the one mentioned above, and lasts about 2.5 hours.
Do an extra rinse at the end of the heavy duty cycle.
We sometimes also have to wash the pooey nappies entirely separately.
I think I'll definitely be getting a new machine!
Ali.
To get rid of the smell, add a few drops of tea tree or lavender to your wash AND rinse cycles. Also, use NO 'commercial' detergents at all. Get a hold of some Eco Store detergent, or the Eartch Choice works well also. Make sure you only use at most HALF the recommended dose per load.
The smell you are talking about more often comes form the build up of the detergents in the nappies.
Dry your nappies in the sun or at least on an airer as much as possible - not the dryer.
Also, this will allow you to do a single cycle wash - so no need for extra rinses at all - saving you time, money and most importantly, the environment! (No point having a front loader to save water if you use 3 rinse cycles anyway )
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