I've made a terrible mistake..

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A friend of mine lent me a gorgeous numnah to try out for a few weeks. Before returning it to her, I thought I'd throw it into the washing machine like I normally do with mine..

And BOOM World War III of horse hair in the washing machine - it could practically be a horse it has THAT much hair in it!!! The drum, the sides, the door all coated in a thick layer of wet fur. And for love nor money will it come off!!

Here comes the next confession.. the washing machine is not mine. Come tomorrow my mum is going to be returning from her holiday to find her washing machine looking like the inside of a stuffed bear. I can't claim it wasn't me, seeing as there are multiple numnahs decorating her radiators, and a shiny saddle plopped next to it!

Any (fast!!) solutions for one very red faced moron?! :)
 
Clear the filter then hoover it (if it's all too wet to pick up you may have to get the hair dryer out lol) then do as many rinse and spins as you can and keep cleaning the filter.
 
Wipe out what you can with an old towel then run it through a cycle empty. Clean the filter if you can afterwards.
 
Find the instruction manual (Google the make and model number if necessary), clean out the filter so you know water is flowing through it. Then run it on a hot wash with half a cupful of washing soda. Then empty the filter again. Do another wash to rinse.
Good luck
 
Sorry, sitting here chuckling. Some good suggestions here.

Next time put stuff in a single old duvet cover. That's what we used to do when my mum went away. All the rugs, nummahs, girths came back for a nice wash.
 
Oh yes, I do it here but because it's my own machine I get away with it! I do make sure that I put another "horse clothing" wash on afterwards. Hubby doesn't appreciate hairy underpants! :D
 
Sorry am also laughing at your description! I still live at home so anything horsey has to be thoroughly brushed off before my mum let's it anywhere near the washing machine!
 
Thank you all, the filter has been cleared (yuck!), and its been put on hot and soapy wash! Also set my alarm for super early tomorrow so I can attack it with the hoover!
If all else fails at least I tried.. not sure if mum will see it that way though! :p

Peregrine Falcon said:
Hubby doesn't appreciate hairy underpants! :D
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Ha ha that made me laugh, at least I'm not the only one :D
 
Gloi said:
That's because everyone has done it!!!
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Haha yes everyone has. My mums washing machine is one of those ones that you need a mortgage to buy and they don't make parts for any more and I emailed her one time a few days before she came home telling her I had broke it but I had paid for a man to come and fix it and that I'll be locking my bedroom door. She phoned me to say it was already broke I just happened to use it and tho k I broke it but thanks for the honesty! 😂
 
Gloi said:
That's because everyone has done it!!!
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Ha Ha, you will be fine. As others have said, wipe it out, clear the filters and then wash your horsey outdoor jackets. Do the same then wash your horse clothes such as jodhs etc. Then it will be fine.

At least you did not lose control of a pan of boiling linseed on one of the first ever posh hobs ;)
 
Can't add much more to actually cleaning out the machine but just to say I now vacuum all the horse stuff before it goes into the wash to remove as much hair as possible.
 
Red-1 said:
At least you did not lose control of a pan of boiling linseed on one of the first ever posh hobs ;)
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:D We have all done that too :o

If the washing machine is still fur coated when she gets home you will have to resort to the old "but it's for [insert horse's name] comfort" then *puppy eyes at mum* *holds out flowers*
 
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hahahah this is so funny!! I did a sneaky wash of mine while my parents were on holiday this year!! i don't know what I'd have done if this had happened to me! I did brush the worst hair off first! then did about 3 loads of jackets and and hoodies etc afterwards, and she didn't notice at all :) (she normally would)
 
For future reference, hoover your numnah before it goes in the machine. I had to call out an engineer once to clear the internal filter, he asked if I'd accidentally washed a brown cat.
 
I wash an old towel after washing horsey stuff. Most of the hairs stick to it and what's left I can wipe out with kitchen paper (seems to stick better to that than a cloth) The one time I meant to go back and do it after putting the things out to dry, I forgot and OH washed his (black) police uniform later that day. It wouldn't have been a problem if my horse wasn't grey!
 
umm... I am not joking when I say I have just done this today.

Am house sitting for parents, mother has v expensive washing machine. thought I'd chuck numnah in as dog has been sitting on it in the car as well. Cue not only copious amounts of black horse hair, but also copious amounts of long, white dog hair.

Have wiped out machine, checked the seal bit in door and am going to put my parents dog towel in to hope that washes the rest out. Will then find someone else to blame if needs be...! ;)
 
9tails said:
For future reference, hoover your numnah before it goes in the machine. I had to call out an engineer once to clear the internal filter, he asked if I'd accidentally washed a brown cat.
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for future reference use a washbag then no problems at all. I also had to call the engineer out. Sadly not a cleared filter but a new machine as the hair had damaged it too much. I used to think it was funny when all the clothes came out with hairs on. I didn't think it quite so funny when I had to pay several hundred pounds for a new machine. Fifteen quid for a washbag would have saved me a lot of money.
 
if the machine is also a tumble drier stick in a microfibre cloth and tumble dry it

I think we have all been there, I once washed some turnout boots and then had my husband complaining about gritty uniform at work, I had to play innocent lol I now have one of the orange wash bags and now even headcollars and grooming kit go in the machine!
 
You are not the only one to have made this mistake!
This might put a smile on your face.
Years ago I worked in a learning disabilities hospital cleaning the wards then transferred to working in the sewing room as I had sewing skills, albeit on leather and horse rugs but I coped.
I also inherited the laundry keys as you do, to cover for the regular staff, I covered on the weekends when they weren't there.
Large industrial machines and tumble dryers we are talking about.

After I finished work about 3pm I'd jump in my car and off round various stables in the area (Banstead) with all my tools and fittings and I'd also go further up in to London to do repairs on site, saddle fitting, flocking etc.
I had been to Deen City Farm in South London one day and picked up 10 stable rugs to wash and repair, as I had the keys to the laundry and lived in staff accommodation so on site after my boss and regular staff had gone home I thought it would be a good idea to sneak the rugs in under the cover of darkness and wash them, how wrong can you be.
I too had the same problem of hairy drums in washing machines and tumble dryer!
I pulled as much as I could out and then put the machines on a rinse thinking that would solve the problem.
But forgot the tumble dryer.
Then a few days later, I heard they called the Doctor on duty to examine the residents as they were all scratching and thought the hospital had gone done with scabies, I was too embarrassed to tell them what it really was in their clothing that made them itch.
That wasn't the end of it though, my boss had to call out Dynarod to unblock the drain in the back car park as it had flooded and they couldn't work out where all the hair and soap suds had appeared from.
I kept that quiet for many years, after the hospital closed I owned up to my boss, she just shook her head as she knew what I was like.
I haven't done it since so good luck!
Oz
 
Lol :lol: oz...

I hoover our sheepskin numnahs before they go in the machine, and brush the others...

Still had a few hairy school uniforms though :(

Fiona
 
I hoover out the drum when it's dry after washing saddlecloths.

I try to at least de-hair them a little before they go in, though.
 
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