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Whoopit

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I desperately need to wash all my rugs before they crawl away from home (in fact, everything needs washing including my winter mucking out gear!). I cannot bring myself to put them in the washing machine at home as they don't come out that well cos of dirt and i dont have the facility to pressure wash stuff beforehand nor the inclination to scrub them clean - my free time is precious and i aint scrubbing hrose gear in it!!

There isn't a launderette that close to me but i can travel to one, especially to get all my numnahs and boots and headcollars washed in one go! There's no way I could afford to get everything done by a "specialist equine laundry" when I'd like to get stuff washed fairly frequently.

Does anybody use a local launderette or if there was one close would you? If so, how often do/would you go and how much do you pay?
 
I'm also interested in this. For me, if i used a launderette and turned up to clean my clothes and some ****** before me had put a dirty great big hairy rug in the machine I would not be impressed! :p That's why I personally havent tried it.
 
I put it in my washing machine in an old duvet cover after using a lint roller (couple of pound from Ikea) on the inside . I put vanish on stable stains first. I spray tent reproofing stuff over my outdoors when they're dry.
 
Lots of laundrettes around me have signs up saying you aren't allowed to put horse stuff in them :(

I wash anything that will fit in my machine at home and do my turnout rugs by hand. Only send my very grotty stable rugs off for a proper clean.
I'd rather do it myself than cough up for someone else to do it!
 
I've not personally used a launderette but I know people who have.
Smaller items I brush the hair and mud off and stick in my washing machine at home or scrub under a tap, rugs go to rug wash company.
 
There is a horsey rug wash place near your old yard.. I send mine there. Numnahs and smaller stuff I soak in a bucket with washing powder for a few hours, scrub a bit with a brush, rinse and then hang on the line.

There used to be a local launderette that people took their rugs to slyly, and the owner used to go mental if he caught people. As an adult now, I'd go mental too if I was the owner. Just because you put it on another rinse afterwards doesn't mean the filter isn't still clogged up with all the hair etc..
 
My mum used to run a rug washing & repair business. She used the local laundrette to wash them. I think it was £3.60 ish a wash & she could usually get 2 in at a time. As long as she wiped the machine out afterwards the place didn't mind xx
 
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