The Spendthrift's Progress

Routines.

I've settled into a diaperwashing routine, after some trial and error.

I drypail, meaning the dirty diapers go into a nylon stuff sack until said sack is full, then the whole lot of it goes into the washer. I tried a couple of methods before finding the washing routine that worked for me: no rinse, Bio-Kleen Bac-Out on everything, soak in hot for at least one hour before running the actual wash cycle; no rinse, run a cold wash first with just baking soda, followed by a second cold wash with Country Save detergent; insert random washing experiments here.

What I've settled on is this:

• Wet diapers go directly into the pail, no pretreating.
• Dirty diapers get rinsed in the shower with the shower massage head, then liberally soaked with Bac-Out
• All diapers go through a short first wash on cold with about a half-cup of baking soda and a smallish amount of detergent. Dirty diapers may or may not get pretreated with detergent, depending on how bad they look.
  
• This is followed by a longer hot wash with Country Save and whatever oxygen bleach powder is handy.
• If sunny, hang to dry. If not, stick diapers in dryer on hot for 100 minutes with a dry towel.

It works well.

posted by mohmlet @ 6:42 PM