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water temp for laundry

Pooky1 — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 11:00:53 GMT

when you do laundry do you guys use hot warm or cold water. just curious what other people use.

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gidgetgh — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 11:15:18 GMT

For white clothes (underwear, socks, etc) and also sheets and towels, I use hot water/cold rinse.

For colored clothes I use warm water/warm rinse and sometimes warm water/cold rinse.

Delicate items I use cold water/cold rinse.

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Pook — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 11:19:32 GMT

@Pooky1Mostly cold water for regular clothing. Towels and sheets hot water as well as whites - especially socks (unless washing instructions say otherewise). Pet bedding usually hot also.

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Eileen in Virginia — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 12:04:33 GMT

Usually warm wash with cold rinse. We almost never use hot water and I’ll use cold water for very delicate lingerie.

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OKPrincess — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 12:19:43 GMT

Cold wash/cold rinse for most clothes

warm wash/warm rinse for towels, sheets, My Pillows

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Mominohio — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 12:33:25 GMT

We have very few 'fancy' clothes, so most of my loads are hot water wash (and I have a full fill washer). I don't have the option of anything but a cold rinse, but I can manually run another wash cycle in hot or warm for the rinse if I need to for some reason.

I'm old fashioned and not going to change. I like most of our clothing and linens washed in hot. And I've not damaged things by doing so.

I do have a few nicer things that I'm more careful with, and use a warm cycle, which comes out closer to cold, then line dry.

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JeanLouiseFinch — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 12:48:57 GMT

@gidgetgh wrote:
For white clothes (underwear, socks, etc) and also sheets and towels, I use hot water/cold rinse.

For colored clothes I use warm water/warm rinse and sometimes warm water/cold rinse.

Delicate items I use cold water/cold rinse.

Generally speaking, this is pretty much me, too, for the most part, but I do distinguish between light and dark colored clothing -

lights get washed in warm, darks in cold

Everything gets rinsed in cold.

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Big Joanie — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 12:54:08 GMT

Warm for sure ....

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SahmIam — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 12:54:54 GMT

Bathroom, bed and kitchen items are hot wash, hot rinse.

Clothing is cold wash, cold rinse first, then a second wash with warm wash, warm rinse. I do this because of stains with the kids; especially socks.

Delicates (cashmere) cold and cold.

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Rockycoast — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 12:55:38 GMT

For towels, underwear, white sport socks I use hot water wash and rinse. Gotta kill those nasties in there! For sheets, tablecloths and jeans, warm water and for all other clothes, cold water wash.

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AuntG — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 14:08:56 GMT

Usually warm.

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151949 — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 14:21:14 GMT

My bras and other delicates - delicate cycle - cold/cold

dark clothes cold/cold heavy cycle

all else hot /cold permanant press cycle.

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Carmie — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 14:47:33 GMT

My washer has a special temp that is between cold and warm. I use that for almost everything including towels and sheets. Rinse is same temp.

Most dark clothing gets washed in cold water, cold rinse.

It’s just the two of us and our clothing is never really dirty. I get oil stains from cooking, so I pretreat them before dropping them into the washer. I use a heavy duty commercial grade Whirlpool washer and dryer that must be around 20 yeats old. It works great. I hope I never have to buy and use a newer washer that only uses a thimble full of water.

Once in a while, I will use hot water wash and cold rinse, but it is usually for something like a dog towel or doggie bed cover.

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sunshine45 — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 14:58:01 GMT

hot for items going in with bleach.

warm for all other items.

i never use cold.

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CelticCrafter — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 15:00:05 GMT

Hot for bleachables and sheets, warm for everything else.

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AngelPuppy1 — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 15:00:28 GMT

I mostly use hot. Unless it is something I feel will fade a lot. Or something that might shrink. Also, if there are stains and I have pre-soaked or treated, then I use cold.

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wagirl — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 15:05:58 GMT

I use mostly cool---hot for towels and undies, warm for work clothes. I have cycles for each those categories. No fancy stuff, but do use laundry bags for bras and things I don't want to be snagged.

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kaydee50 — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 15:38:08 GMT

Cold wash/rinse for everything. I'm not sure "hot" water is hot enough to kill germs and from what I've read (except for here!!!) cold water is fine for the laundry.

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GCR18 — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 16:08:41 GMT

Cold unless using bleach.

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RetRN — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 17:49:35 GMT

Cold for dark colors.

Warm for light colors.

Hot for sheets and towels.