Shocking results from washing black fabric
10-14-2011, 06:49 PM
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Yeah I had a bad experience with a Belux (?) blanket last year when I found a garbage bag in the attic of bedding that the movers tossed up there. I decided to wash it and that was right after I spent 5K on the top of the line Kenmore frontloaders they had. You know the ones with the 5 way motion and all......
Anyway I tossed it in and washed it like I knew what I was doing and my wife screamed when she opened the washer to unload it to the drier. After the high pitched shrill in the laundry room I saw that someone had put a fishing net and a ton of spanish moss in my washer! That blanket fell all to pieces in there and it took me a good two hours to clean it all out. Rule #1 a mans place is not in front of a washer especially when you just bought the thing and your wife has yet to use it!
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Anyway I tossed it in and washed it like I knew what I was doing and my wife screamed when she opened the washer to unload it to the drier. After the high pitched shrill in the laundry room I saw that someone had put a fishing net and a ton of spanish moss in my washer! That blanket fell all to pieces in there and it took me a good two hours to clean it all out. Rule #1 a mans place is not in front of a washer especially when you just bought the thing and your wife has yet to use it!
Billy
10-15-2011, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Lostn51
Yeah I had a bad experience with a Belux (?) blanket last year when I found a garbage bag in the attic of bedding that the movers tossed up there. I decided to wash it and that was right after I spent 5K on the top of the line Kenmore frontloaders they had. You know the ones with the 5 way motion and all......
Anyway I tossed it in and washed it like I knew what I was doing and my wife screamed when she opened the washer to unload it to the drier. After the high pitched shrill in the laundry room I saw that someone had put a fishing net and a ton of spanish moss in my washer! That blanket fell all to pieces in there and it took me a good two hours to clean it all out. Rule #1 a mans place is not in front of a washer especially when you just bought the thing and your wife has yet to use it!
Billy
Anyway I tossed it in and washed it like I knew what I was doing and my wife screamed when she opened the washer to unload it to the drier. After the high pitched shrill in the laundry room I saw that someone had put a fishing net and a ton of spanish moss in my washer! That blanket fell all to pieces in there and it took me a good two hours to clean it all out. Rule #1 a mans place is not in front of a washer especially when you just bought the thing and your wife has yet to use it!
Billy
I can imagine the mess! Did it damage the washer?
10-16-2011, 01:26 PM
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I didn't read this whole thread, but I did see the suggestion that it might have been fiberglass. But the old insulation that the poster was talking about sounded like asbestos insulation. My husband and I used to own an insulation company and used fiberglass; asbestos was banned even then. I've never heard of fabric being made of fiberglass though.
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