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Kern · **Posted:** Tue Dec 22, 2020 17:53

Mimi wrote:

Ah, which is similar to (but also opposite to) the problem with prewash cycles in washing machines if using pods/dosing balls. As you drop the detergent into the drum, it’s all used up in the prewash, so you have no detergent in the main wash.

I've been doing laundry wrong!

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 22495

Kern wrote:

Mimi wrote:

Ah, which is similar to (but also opposite to) the problem with prewash cycles in washing machines if using pods/dosing balls. As you drop the detergent into the drum, it’s all used up in the prewash, so you have no detergent in the main wash.

I've been doing laundry wrong!

‘Wait! Let me... just... haul this washing machine... onto... this table... to show you!’

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 2399

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Dec 22, 2020 18:45

Kern wrote:

Mimi wrote:

Ah, which is similar to (but also opposite to) the problem with prewash cycles in washing machines if using pods/dosing balls. As you drop the detergent into the drum, it’s all used up in the prewash, so you have no detergent in the main wash.

I've been doing laundry wrong!

If the clothes come out cleaner than when they went it it is successful jaunt.

CF. Children.

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 3817

Dishwashers aren't all that heavy really, but washing machines are really, really heavy.

Taking a broken washing machine apart (so I could get the drum out, and use it as a fire pit) was fun - there are big blocks of cement (or something else hard and heavy) in there to weigh the thing down and stop it bouncing around during a spin cycle.

Speaking of which, I used to quite enjoy videos of washing machines smashing themselves up when a brick is thrown into a fast spin cycle.... Off to you tube....

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 3817

Oh, here's one I haven't seen before

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 2399

Sir Taxalot wrote:

Dishwashers aren't all that heavy really, but washing machines are really, really heavy.

Taking a broken washing machine apart (so I could get the drum out, and use it as a fire pit) was fun - there are big blocks of cement (or something else hard and heavy) in there to weigh the thing down and stop it bouncing around during a spin cycle.

Speaking of which, I used to quite enjoy videos of washing machines smashing themselves up when a brick is thrown into a fast spin cycle.... Off to you tube....

Yes! Which means, if you have a cheap one where they've saved money by not having a full shell round the whole thing, you can see the cement block in the back. If I'd found the right tool, I probably could have just taken it off - would have made taking it to the tip much easier.