Separate Wash Glass Towels

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Do you wash your glass towels separately

I've been just hand washing them in the laundry sink for like forever....
Everything else does get tossed in the washing machine

I recently wiped a lower portion close to the gasket and picked up a smidge of dirt.
Dirt that handwashing wasn't really making it disappear. Maybe it was just rubber gasket rash on the towel.

Anyhow, I washed them in a load of -clean- auto towel cleaning *1 drying towel, 2 wash mitts, and a few MF's*
And as expected, the black rubber rash in my glass towel is mainly gone.
I suppose agitation via machine helps...

I'm still sticking with hand washing glass towels separate just to minimize contamination.
Does anyone else adhere to this or you just wash them in a clean load of towel wash (aka, no sealant sprays, etc)
 
Since we're on topic.....stuff like sealant buff off towels, topper, etc.

Anyone doing a pre-rinse.
I always do a pre-rinse if it's a LSP product of any kind - pre-wash-rinse in the laundry sink.
Then off it goes into the washer with the rest of the stuff. In my mind...with the pre-rinse, same POV. Mitigating contamination of product into towels
 
Mitts/drying towels/ microfibers with sealant or wax or drying aids/microfibers used for rinseless all go in together.
If i have some towels that were used to clean something extra dirty ill soak them in a bucket with simple green in it prior to washing but even those go in the same load afterwards.
Also if i use microfibers with sealants or wax right after using i place them in the washing machine tub that already has some clean water in it and then wait till everything i want to wash is in the machine before i start it. I do this as to not allow the towels to dry with those chemicals on them.
I add a cup of vinegar to the extra rinse cycle.
IMO no need to overthink it.
 
Bunky said:
I wash my glass and drying towels separately from the rest.
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Together or separate? Maybe I'm the outlier here, I have 4 buckets to collect MF for washing...wait--5.

1. Wash media--because I generally use ones that have sponges in them
2. Drying towels
3. Glass Towels
4. Waterless wash towels--because these generally are used on bird poop
5. Polish/sealant/interior/everything else

I used to launder the wash media with other towels but it was hard to get a "sudsless" rinse because of the internal sponges.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Together or separate? Maybe I'm the outlier here, I have 4 buckets to collect MF for washing...wait--5.

1. Wash media--because I generally use ones that have sponges in them
2. Drying towels
3. Glass Towels
4. Waterless wash towels--because these generally are used on bird poop
5. Polish/sealant/interior/everything else

I used to launder the wash media with other towels but it was hard to get a "sudsless" rinse because of the internal sponges.
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Are you saying you wash the above items in 5 separate loads?
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Yes, but I accumulate a lot of towels before I wash a load, it's not like I'm doing 5 detailing wash loads every time I wash a car or every week.
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Got it.
You are not concerned about the chemicals drying on the towels?

Don't get why one would feel the need to wash their glass towels separately. They are microfiber just like the other towels.
I use cleaning vinegar with my glass towels so I figure the glass towels that are saturated with the cleaning vinegar could only help with laundering the rest of the load.
 
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BLM said:
You are not concerned about the chemicals drying on the towels?
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Yes...but my concern meter is pretty full...so I live with that one.


BLM said:
Don't get why one would feel the need to wash their glass towels separately. They are microfiber just like the other towels.
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I don't know, I've been doing it forever, just don't want to wind up with some streaky residue or worse, some microfiber lint from some other towel on the inside of the windshield. Nothing worse than getting microfiber lint on the inside of the windshield.
 
How Many days or weeks does it take for each bin to get to a point where it hit's the washer...

As a weekly routine, once the daily wash is done, everything is pretty much washed,dryer and ready for the next time.

The only deviation is for the one off bird bomb towels, where if I end up using a MF, I will wash, dump it on a fence or pot to air dry and then put it aside to go into the next car washing machine load.'
 
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I have tons of towels, so I have plenty for "next time" without having to wash every week. Plus I really do so much less detailing than I used to, mostly because I have all the cars inside now, but also due to my advanced age, procrastination, other hobbies, other responsibilities, life, etc.
 
just having 5 bins , waiting to be filled up for a wash load.....to me takes up space and I could see how it may take a month or so before a bin is filled up for a wash load ...being it's all separated.

For the wet stuff like towels and mitts, do they just go into the bin wet....and wait until it get's washed.
It's just another item to maintain if one needs to air-dry them before going into a bin , waiting to get washed.

I get the whole POV of operation:no contamination.....just seems like alot of work to maintain the 5 bin ....especially the wet materials
 
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I wash the items that I used to do a wash/ detail/ wax at the end of each job. Many times I try to wash my truck and my wife's suv one after the other. That is partially due to wanting to only do one load. Usually the only time I do more than one load is when I polish. I wash the towels I use to polish separately as the polish has abrasives in it which I assume is transferred to the towels.
 
chefwong said:
just having 5 bins , waiting to be filled up for a wash load.....to me takes up space and I could see how it may take a month or so before a bin is filled up for a wash load ...being it's all separated.

For the wet stuff like towels and mitts, do they just go into the bin wet....and wait until it get's washed.
It's just another item to maintain if one needs to air-dry them before going into a bin , waiting to get washed.

I get the whole POV of operation:no contamination.....just seems like alot of work to maintain the 5 bin ....especially the wet materials
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I leave my wash sponges to dry on the grit guard before throwing them in the wash bin...actually I have a laundry basket that I would use for both the (MF) wash sponges and the drying towels (towels getting draped over it until dry), but recently I got a couple of buckets for them, so now the basket is just for cotton towels (so I guess that makes 6). I have the room for it, otherwise I wouldn't do it. I'm sorry I just can't get as excited about this stuff as I could 20 years ago.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
I'm sorry I just can't get as excited about this stuff as I could 20 years ago.
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We all have out own ways of doing it and why. Just for me...managing wet media to dry and then to sort to be dealt with another day ....is extra steps I avoid. Those PFM towels take forever to dry but yes, surprisingly, when I've saved a bucket and mitt to wash another car the following day, those sponge mitts with the split MF fivers dry pretty dang quick

But the only towels I mainly care about re: contamination is glass...as it turns out, my hand washing does sux compared to machine agitation.
 
chefwong said:
We all have out own ways of doing it and why. Just for me...managing wet media to dry and then to sort to be dealt with another day ....is extra steps I avoid.
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But if I'm doing a rinseless wash on a small car, I wind up with one piece of wash media, one drying towel, and perhaps one "lower grade" drying towel that I've used for the jambs, etc. That's a really small wash load.
 
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