Clothes with cement dust on them ok in the washing machine?

[Calluna]

Is it ok or will it ruin my machine?

Df has been cementing all day and is insistant that it will be fine but Im not so sure.

Help?

[AnyDream]

I dunno. I guess you could give them a quick rinse in a bucket of water first?

[Calluna]

Thats what I was thinking too. I just dont trust it to not clog my machine....

[~Hestia~]

Just asked my DH, he suggested shaking as much off as you can first. Or hose them off if you have one.

[Calluna]

Ooh hose could work well...

[Amy_jellybean]

We are in the middle of a full house Reno and our clothes regularly go in the machine with cement dust on them, no problems with the machine here

[Cally]

Is it cement dust or concrete dust?

Cement - a component of concrete that when added to gravel and water will react and turn into concrete.

If it's just dust from sawing through a concrete slab, then it would be fine in the machine. If it's cement dust because he's been working at a cement factory all day, then yes, I'd shake it out, give it a rinse before putting them through the machine.

[Calluna]

Hes leveling the floors in the bedrooms so mixing it and crawling around leveling it.

[Cally]

I'd pre rinse then to be on the super safe side, but, the amount of water in the washing machine would be far more than needed to actually have cement react with it and have cement set through your machine so it shouldn't be a problem.

[Calluna]

Great. Thank you