My Wife Put My MF Towels In The Dryer

custmsprty said:
All Fee & Clear works great and much less $$$ Been using it for years.
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Cool I just got some All Free & Clear 2 weeks ago & was hoping it would be good for the Microfiber towels I plan on purchasing today or tomorrow...

Glad to see someone else uses it...
 
07RS4 said:
They won't ruin them. Eventually they will become kind of water proof with extended use of dryer sheets. The Waffle Weave's will take the biggest hit when washed improperly that I've noticed. I got a 36 pack of Zwipes from Amazon that I use around the house, and those are the only ones I wash with other items...at this point they have a waterproof layer on them and tons of strings and debris in them from all the other items being washed with them ie. Clothes, bath towels that shed, etc.

Boiling will bring them back to life, you are correct. Add a cap full of vinegar, and your MF's will be back to new in no time. 1 or 2 minutes in a rolling boil.

OP. Re-Wash and keep separate from other items in the future for optimal performance of your towels. I color code the use of each, and wash them separately. Whichever route you take, good luck....and Happy Thanksgiving:xyxthumbs:
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+1 Boil and Vinegar and +1 on WW taking the biggest hit, this happened to me on 2 of my great whites. They are done, just push the water around.
 
Analguy said:
That's why I always use a coin laundry mat so I can keep an eye on it while I'm working on my laptop:xyxthumbs:
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Why can't you do the same thing at home?

On topic though, unless the towel feels stiffer and is Not as absorbent, I would continue using it. What did you use that towel for in the first place?
 
Meticulous-Detail said:
Not in this instance, boiled and vinegar and they are toast. Happened a couple of years ago before I knew better. The other towels came out good as new, but the WW didn't.
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Was this caused by dryer sheets or something like Downey in the soap?
 
Meticulous-Detail said:
+1 Boil and Vinegar and +1 on WW taking the biggest hit, this happened to me on 2 of my great whites. They are done, just push the water around.
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Good to know man, thanks. If mine ever get to that point I won't even attempt to boil them:xyxthumbs:
 
11PX1 said:
It's not a big leap. Howard Hughes started by writing a multi-page memo on a flaw in one of Jane Russell's blouses to watching movies 24/7 in the nude while subsisting on chocolate, chicken and milk (and relieving himself into the empty containers), moving into the Beverly Hills Hotel to the tune of $11 million per year in the late 1940s, to watching Ice Station Zebra 150 times, to picking up objects using tissues, to moving in to the Desert Inn in Vegas in 1967 and refusing to move out and buying the hotel, to hiring only Mormons as assistants to.... He was 6'1" and 90 lbs when he died.

I'm 6'3" and don't want to weigh 90 lbs when I die so I wash and dry my microfibers with my clothes. In laundry detergent. With or without fabric softeners.

It's not all relative. If a doctor can testify in court that you have debilitating OCD and his testimony could have you committed, it's objective.

I defy anyone to look at my car and tell me what brand of microfiber towel I use or how I wash. them. There's clean, swirl free and high gloss and then there's nuts. Some of the guys on this forum make Howard "get me 200 gallons of discontinued Baskin Robbins Butter Nut Ice Cream" Hughes look normal.

By they way, you forgot to mention after your uncle carefully removes all perfume and scents from his deer hunter clothing, he douses them with deer piss. I'd boil my washer and dryer after a load of deer piss and blood soaked hunting clothes.
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Talk about too much information :wow::laughing:
 
11PX1 said:
Oh my God! My wife dried my microfiber towels in a DRYER and used a dryer sheet!!!

So, what?

They're towels, not a designer suit. Do you normally dry clean your microfiber towels? What if they shrank 5% in the hot air?

Step away from the detailing supplies for at least one month. :props:
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Traditional cleaning cloth fibers are cylindrical and have a tendency to push dirt and moisture around leaving the surface unclean and wet. Blended microfiber is shaped like an asterisk (*). It has the ability to pick up and lock dirt, dust and moisture into the fibers actually cleaning and drying the surface. If the microfiber is not blended and split, it has a cylindrical shape and has the same problems associated with traditional cleaning towel fibers.

Microfiber is positively charged, which adds to its ability to attract dirt like a magnet (dirt is negatively charged). It is also lint free, leaving nothing behind when cleaning or drying. The fibers are so small they are able to penetrate cracks and crevices that cotton fibers are unable to clean, along with cleaning the microscopic surface pores of most materials. Due to the increased surface area of the fibers and their asterisk shape they are able to hold 7-8 times their weight in liquid, making them excellent drying towels.
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The Microfiber Manifesto: Everything You Need To Know About Microfiber Towels

When you wash microfiber with oily detergents, fabric softener (distilled white vinegar is the exception) and use too high of a temperature the fibers become clogged and/or deformed. The whole point of microfiber is to have a superior and grabby fiber until like cylindrical fibers (like cotton), so when they are improperly cared for they lose their advantages and you waste your money. :xyxthumbs:
 
Scott@IncrediblyDetailed said:
The whole point of microfiber is to have a superior and grabby fiber until like cylindrical fibers (like cotton), so when they are improperly cared for they lose their advantages and you waste your money. :xyxthumbs:
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:iagree: That is why I'm not happy. I paid good money for them and if I wanted to treat them like any other towel, I would use my bath towels to dry my truck.

It seems like boiling the towels would melt the fibers like we all (or some of us) are trying to avoid. I'm going to try the vinegar in the washing machine first and use the boiling as a last resort.
 
WEll like I mentioned on your 3rd post, b4 all this ridiculousness, just rewash win normal det. Adding the vinigar to that will work also, or using something like GG MF wash, which still tells you to add in with your normal det. low to med heat in the dryer, or if your really paranoid, get a fold out hanging thingy to lay them out over to air dry 20 bucks amazon
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Indoor/outdoor Folding - Collapsible Laundry Clothes Drying Rack comes in assorted colors - Amazon.com...
 
No problem here. Just another day at the laundry mat.
 
07RS4 said:
Re-Wash like others have said...they are definately not "ruined" lol. Just tell the boss to use the lowest heat setting or tumble air dry in the future.

All F&C or a designated MF detergent are excellent choices. A little tip, maybe just my OCD (who doesn't have that on here)...a quick IPA wipedown of the dryer drum before you dry your towels also helps. You may find them to be soft"er" now...but they may be waterproof :)
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Say whaaaaaaaaaa....... :buffing: :laughing:

11PX1 said:
I'm not wiping down my dryer drum with alcohol. There's OCD and then there's bat-crap crazy Howard Hughes OCD.

What's next? Only buying detailing supplies from Mormons? Buying a Las Vegas Hotel and throwing out all the guests just so you'll have the entire parking structure available for detailing?
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Me thinks most of our neighbors think we are ALL "bat-crap crazy" already! :laughing:

Along the lines of wiping down the dryer. My wife has this 'thing' in the dryer that is attached to the drum and has a snap in, snap out, insert of a fabric softener. Sort of like a large honking solid bar of soap type thing.

Personally, I'd rather just use the dryer sheets as I KNOW when they are in and when they are not. As in..... once upon a time I may or may not have done a whole load of towels and popped them in the dryer, NOT KNOWING about the solid hunk of slowly melting plastic/bar/hunk/mass of whatever the heck that stuff is. :rolleyes: At least I *NOW* know I can remove that sucker before I dry towels.

But you wanna' know the funny part? My wife not only doesn't wash my MF towels, she CAN'T STAND to touch them! She's an office manager, handles tons of files and car titles daily and her fingers catch on them! She came home that day and said, (as soon as she saw all the towels sitting on the table in the kitchen), "Did you remove the fabric softener bar from inside the dryer before you put you towel in there?" I kid you not! SHE KNEW not to do it, (dry with it in there) and what made it worse..... was that she KNEW I DIDN'T (know to take it out).:doh:
 
cardaddy said:
Say whaaaaaaaaaa....... :buffing: :laughing:



Me thinks most of our neighbors think we are ALL "bat-crap crazy" already! :laughing:

Along the lines of wiping down the dryer. My wife has this 'thing' in the dryer that is attached to the drum and has a snap in, snap out, insert of a fabric softener. Sort of like a large honking solid bar of soap type thing.

Personally, I'd rather just use the dryer sheets as I KNOW when they are in and when they are not. As in..... once upon a time I may or may not have done a whole load of towels and popped them in the dryer, NOT KNOWING about the solid hunk of slowly melting plastic/bar/hunk/mass of whatever the heck that stuff is. :rolleyes: At least I *NOW* know I can remove that sucker before I dry towels.

But you wanna' know the funny part? My wife not only doesn't wash my MF towels, she CAN'T STAND to touch them! She's an office manager, handles tons of files and car titles daily and her fingers catch on them! She came home that day and said, (as soon as she saw all the towels sitting on the table in the kitchen), "Did you remove the fabric softener bar from inside the dryer before you put you towel in there?" I kid you not! SHE KNEW not to do it, (dry with it in there) and what made it worse..... was that she KNEW I DIDN'T (know to take it out).:doh:
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Haha, I do the IPA wipedown for the little extra piece of mind. As much as I paid for my MF collection...the last thing I want is them to become waterproof and useless.

My wife was going to buy one of those Fabric Softener bars when they first came out, but she knew better, lol.
 
Now, we have a microfiber collector!

"911, what's your emergency?"

"My home was burglarized!"

"What was taken?"

"62 8" X "12" microfiber towels and a bottle of IPA to wipe down my clothes dryer drum."

CLICK.
 
11PX1 said:
Now, we have a microfiber collector!

"911, what's your emergency?"

"My home was burglarized!"

"What was taken?"

"62 8" X "12" microfiber towels and a bottle of IPA to wipe down my clothes dryer drum."

CLICK.
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:rolleyes:

Bob
 
07RS4 said:
Haha, I do the IPA wipedown for the little extra piece of mind. As much as I paid for my MF collection...the last thing I want is them to become waterproof and useless.

My wife was going to buy one of those Fabric Softener bars when they first came out, but she knew better, lol.
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Yeah well.... mine will buy anything she see's on a shopping channel! :rolleyes:

Heck, our washer and dryer actually communicate with each other via a serial cable. (So the dryer knows what's coming next.)
I set up different 'programs' for various car washing materials/towels/microfiber and then she goes and messes with the 'flow' by sticking that hunk-o-jabbawabba inside the dryer like that! :awman:
 
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