cleaning rugs...washing machines....do you?

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amandaco2

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do you know how you 'dont put rugs in the washing machine' to clean them
well how would you put them in if you did?just stick them in or tie up the metal parts of the straps?heated water?soap powder?
how broken would it make the machine-considering i have about 10 rugs to wash!
 
depends if they would physically fit. I have been known to put my stable rug in when OH isn't looking but that only just fits and none of my other rugs would come close.

I'm tempted to try the launderette next time and hope they don't notice
 
i wash and reproof my ponies rugs in my machine, they are only 5ft 6
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I bought a larger capacity washing machine especially so that I can wash rugs! tbh I just chuck them in. I have to say that larger sizes are a bit of a squash but I haven't killed the machine yet.

I have a new master plan - don't buy heavy rugs, buy lightweight ones and layer them - that way they fit in the machine.
 
I go to the local unmanned laundrette which has 4 of those very very industrial machines and I kid you not but I managed to wash a lightweight stable rug, meduim TO, light TO, hood, travel boots and fly rug all in one wash! (All 6ft rugs) And it came out immaculate!
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It was a massive machine tho not like one i've seen before, proper commercial/industrial one
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I think it was a 20kg one
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Thin rugs like a fleece, thin under rug, quilted 'waistcoat type under rug, will all fit in a domestic washing machine without too much problem although it's good to wrap the bucklet & clips in an old sock otherwise the clanging around as it washes it unbearable. We do this regularly without any problem.

Regarding your thicker rugs, they are really too large to fit & will be too heavy for the normal machine to do.... a late night/ early morning to a laundrette is needed for that
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I can't fit our rugs in except cooler rugs they're all six foot.

I take them to the laundrette who have industrial washing machines and the lady does me a service wash without powder on turnout rugs and with powder on stable rugs she dries them as well. She does say though that rugs with loads of hairs must be brushed off. Ours have quilted insides except one so no problem. They do one of the riding schools numnahs every week on a service wash as well.
 
I do the ones that fit, wash and reproof, fleeces go in a wash bag because the hair blocks the machine. When it breaks we will get one that will take a larger load. I also tumble dry everything. Although OH once commented that the two balls I had bought put dents in the drum - I had to admit it was all the buckles on girths and rugs
 
i put all lw in when oh isnt looking! put them inside an old quilt cover and that seems to stop all teh hair and mud cloggin the machine - i run an empty wash after tho!
 
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When we replaced our machine last year, I specifically got one with a large drum to take rugs (old machine still managed to do LW, MW and stable rugs, fleeces etc). I can get most rugs in it except the super heavy winter turnouts but have done everything else. My lad takes eitehr 6ft or 6ft 3" rugs.

I put them in on a 30 degree wash and reproof every but I try to only do turnouts at the end of the season only before they get packed away in the loft. He has a few (cough
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) so I can rotate them through the season so they don't end up just too minging.
 
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When we replaced our machine last year, I specifically got one with a large drum to take rugs (old machine still managed to do LW, MW and stable rugs, fleeces etc). I can get most rugs in it except the super heavy winter turnouts but have done everything else. My lad takes either 6ft or 6ft 3" rugs.

I put them in on a 30 degree wash and reproof but I try to only do turnouts at the end of the season only before they get packed away in the loft. He has a few (cough
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) so I can rotate them through the season so they don't end up just too minging.
 
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