Miss Molly knows too much about washing machines
Today I learned that by wearing decontaminated new clothes, I got well enough that I could pinpoint the cause of the laundry contamination. It was from the controlled burn, and whatever it was, it was stuck to the screen outside the house pressurizer and all over the inside of the duct leading inside. And I couldn't detect it last week.
In extremely related news, it appears that you can probably wash this particular contaminant out using All Free Clear (an actual safer mainstream laundry liquid), but it might take a few repetitions, and then if you're me, you have to wash out the All Free Clear. So there's hope for the three quilts I contaminated and the four sets of sheets, plus the clothing I was preparing to give away to people who would tolerate it.
In other extremely related news, a joint decision last night to use a 'safe' washer for safe laundry and a 'not-so-safe' washer for evil laundry (plus All Free Clear) resulted in a trip to the storage place this morning to collect the emergency back-up, ten-year-old matching washer and dryer that first entered storage back in 2002. Despite being two-thirds of the way back, they weren't anywhere near as hard to extract as we had expected. Thus they are sitting in multiple pieces on the patio getting Bounce and Tide removed from their innards. Interestingly, the innards belonging to the washer appear identical to the ones in the older machine that we bought here, but younger and with more bells and whistles. So far the biggest difference between the two washers is that the newer one, used for four years, had less cumulative crud in it than the older machine, which we cleaned last week.
Also:
In extremely related news, it appears that you can probably wash this particular contaminant out using All Free Clear (an actual safer mainstream laundry liquid), but it might take a few repetitions, and then if you're me, you have to wash out the All Free Clear. So there's hope for the three quilts I contaminated and the four sets of sheets, plus the clothing I was preparing to give away to people who would tolerate it.
In other extremely related news, a joint decision last night to use a 'safe' washer for safe laundry and a 'not-so-safe' washer for evil laundry (plus All Free Clear) resulted in a trip to the storage place this morning to collect the emergency back-up, ten-year-old matching washer and dryer that first entered storage back in 2002. Despite being two-thirds of the way back, they weren't anywhere near as hard to extract as we had expected. Thus they are sitting in multiple pieces on the patio getting Bounce and Tide removed from their innards. Interestingly, the innards belonging to the washer appear identical to the ones in the older machine that we bought here, but younger and with more bells and whistles. So far the biggest difference between the two washers is that the newer one, used for four years, had less cumulative crud in it than the older machine, which we cleaned last week.
Also:
- My husband has postulated that the crud collects due to a lack of surfactants in ammonia, my laundry liquid of choice.
- Finding orangeish dog hair in the dryer makes six years feel like nothing.
posted by missmolly at 10:39 PM
2 Comments:
The crud could be from crazy hard water. We just found out that our water here is really hard, and when we were researching that, we found out that water in AZ can be even harder. And also that hard water leads to soap scum.
We do have crazy hard water, but also, a water softener. I think this is lint scum. ;)
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