White or coloured ?

Mr_love_monkey · 08-06-2005, 10:41

First up, no, it's not a race thread, it's something far more exciting.... it's about washing....

When you are sorting your washing, when does an item stop being white, and become coloured? - how much 'other' colour does a white item have to have to make it coloured - I find it very hard to decide, so information would be useful.....

Roy MM · 08-06-2005, 10:48

The wife says " only fully white items are classed has whites, anything with colours in could run".

danielf · 08-06-2005, 10:49

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Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

First up, no, it's not a race thread, it's something far more exciting.... it's about washing....

When you are sorting your washing, when does an item stop being white, and become coloured? <snip>

Usually after the first washing

My gf actually does the washing (I fold it), so I'm not bothered. When I used to do the washing, I had coloured and black washing. No white...

Mr_love_monkey · 08-06-2005, 10:52

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Originally Posted by Roy MM

The wife says " only fully white items are classed has whites, anything with colours in could run".

but what if you have a t-shirt that is white, with a black trim - surely if you wash that with the coloured items, they'll run into the white?

it's very confusing...

I think I might just start wearing plain white (or black) t-shirts from now on

**Chris** · 08-06-2005, 10:53

One of life's great mysteries, is this. Along with how the washing machine is actually made to operate, of course ...

dilligaf1701 · 08-06-2005, 10:54

You're supposed to SPLIT them

Chimaera · 08-06-2005, 10:58

Well I sometimes put very pale items in with the whites - but only if its on a cool wash. If it's a hotter one then it's whites only - anything else will run! You can try Colour Run Remover to repair the damage or Colour Run Preventer if you think there's going to be a problem.

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Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

but what if you have a t-shirt that is white, with a black trim - surely if you wash that with the coloured items, they'll run into the white?

it's very confusing...

I think I might just start wearing plain white (or black) t-shirts from now on

No need Mr l_m - the Colour Run Preventer should sort that. Or wash it on a cool temperature - that should prevent any accidents!

Halcyon · 08-06-2005, 11:00

Yeah I put pale items with whites too.
Anything slightly darker and it goes in the colours wash.

Mr_love_monkey · 08-06-2005, 11:04

well, the majority of clothing we own all seems to be 40 degress 'easy care' - so colour runs shouldn't happen too often.... it's just one of the many exciting things I've been wondering about just recently...

j52c · 08-06-2005, 11:23

Hi.
Well, here is one for you...........
If you don't mix whites with coloured's so that the colours don't run........

Then you shouldn't mix coloured's with coloured's in case they run...............

So, you must have to do 1 washing for whites, 1 for red, 1 for black and so on.

Does that make sense? I don't do the washing at our house.......

Dave Stones · 08-06-2005, 11:28

you are all paranoid, just like my housemates... if you don't know that your clothes are colourfast after several washes at 40C, you have problems... they practically have heart attacks when they see me throwing my white socks/t shirts etc in with my black towels, and so forth.... they don't seem to understand that coloursonly run for the first couple of washes, when there is still "spare dye"...

so in short, in my experience, wash your new clothes twice on their own at 40/50c to get rid of the spare colour, then they will be fine to throw in with everything

saves using 2 scoops of washing powder too

MetaWraith · 08-06-2005, 11:30

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Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

You're supposed to SPLIT them

and stitch them back together afterwards presumably.

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Originally Posted by Dave Stones

you are all paranoid, just like my housemates... if you don't know that your clothes are colourfast after several washes at 40C, you have problems... they practically have heart attacks when they see me throwing my white socks/t shirts etc in with my black towels, and so forth.... they don't seem to understand that coloursonly run for the first couple of washes, when there is still "spare dye"...

so in short, in my experience, wash your new clothes twice on their own at 40/50c to get rid of the spare colour, then they will be fine to throw in with everything

saves using 2 scoops of washing powder too

There speaks a true student

Dave Stones · 08-06-2005, 11:30

hey, cheek... washing powder is damn expensive!

BBKing · 08-06-2005, 12:04

I wash everything at 40 anyway, saves running and does a miniscule amount for the environment, so I can feel good when I get in my car and drive to the supermarket for vegetables flown in by air from Africa.

If they're a bit dirtier so what? I dress in black every day anyway and BBPrince gets yoghurt down anything clean within seconds anyway. So I just seperate light from dark - pale blue or yellow gets thrown in with whites.

What about black and white striped socks?

Chimaera · 08-06-2005, 12:09

Ah - now I thought I read somewhere that you should do a really hot wash every now and again - otherwise the pipes get clogged up with all the undissloved powder/liquid in the machine?
Where's our resident washing machine wizard iadom then?