rinsing and washing itti bittis
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Topic: rinsing and washing itti bittis
Posted By: Bexee
Subject: rinsing and washing itti bittis
Date Posted: 08 July 2011 at 2:19pm
| Our washing machine's rinse cycle is 38 minutes long and I'm wondering, do I have to do a washing machine rinse cycle with my itti bitti's, or is rinsing them out by hand before washing okay? DS is pretty predictable with his poos so most of the time the nappies will only be used for wees, and given I only use part time, it seems a bit of a waste to do a huge long rinse cycle for two nappies! |
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Posted By: Nothing
Date Posted: 08 July 2011 at 7:00pm
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Well the rinse is there to get rid of the washing powder so its quite important. Can you shorten it somehow? ------------- 
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Posted By: Bexee
Date Posted: 08 July 2011 at 8:13pm
| I was wondering about the rinse before the main wash/rinse/spin cycle. |
Posted By: Nothing
Date Posted: 08 July 2011 at 8:44pm
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Can you not select it to not do it? My front loader does a quick wash of 28 minutes and I add another rinse and it goes up to 35 mins so your's must do an really long wash. Im sure if its the one before the main wash it will be fine if you dont do it -------------
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Posted By: Jaune
Date Posted: 08 July 2011 at 8:49pm
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I guess you can - my rinse cycle is only about 3mins so it's perfect.
Could you let the machine fill up, swoosh them around a bit then let the water out before putting on the normal washing cycle? Would be a little bit more labour intensive, but perhaps not as much as doing it by hand? I think (don't really know) that the pre-rinse is just as important for wees as when it sits for a while the ammonia concentration develops...I wonder how clean the nappies would get with all that ammonia in the water? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bexee
Date Posted: 08 July 2011 at 9:04pm
| Ah thanks for the advice. Found a nappy rinse cycle on the machine so will use that then a normal wash! |
Posted By: amalyse
Date Posted: 11 July 2011 at 1:40am
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Hmmmmm...
I'm thinking I do a prewash, normal wash (cotton cold??) with extra rinse for my nappies.... will take 2 hours or so.... friggen frontloaders! I don't mind, I can just pop it on at night and program for the morning. Hoping this should get most of the powder out. We'll see! ------------- 
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Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 11 July 2011 at 9:49am
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With my front loader, I run a rinse cycle without the spin which is about 9 mins down from 18 & then I do cotton wash which is a really long one, plus an extra rinse at the end. I am now washing my covers in with my normal load of clothing & inserts are washed by themselves. ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: MamaT
Date Posted: 11 July 2011 at 2:40pm
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I wash using laundry balls so don't need to use a rinse cycle to get rid of washing powder, so, I do a pre-wash rinse and then manually bypass the rinse at the end of the load. I can hear when the machine changes to a rinse cycle so just pop into the laundry and skip to a spin cycle.
One day we'll get a new washer and I'll be able to set it automatically  -------------  
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Posted By: CrazyCass
Date Posted: 19 July 2011 at 8:22am
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Ha SNAP _ I just got some of the Laundry Balls MamaT - with the intention of using them with cloth nappies at the end of the year!
Only used them for a few washes so far, but no complaints! But yes bring on a new machine where we dont have to bypass the rinse cycle! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: MamaT
Date Posted: 19 July 2011 at 9:21am
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I love my laundry balls, I've been using them for almost a year now. It's great being able to bypass the laundry aisle in the supermarket and it doesn't aggrevate DS skin or cause his eczema to flare up. -------------
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Posted By: CrazyCass
Date Posted: 19 July 2011 at 9:40am
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I couldn't get over how much cheaper they work out to be!
I had looked at soap nuts, but you have to remember how many washes you've done with them, store the bulk packs etc etc. Laundry Balls are WAY easier, I'll just replenish every 8months or so cause we do so much washing  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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