washing machines at petrol stations or supermarkets

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

The petrol station next to my house has two of them. They seem to be very well used night or day. Walking home from the pub at 2 or 3 in the morning there would always be a car parked in front of the machines, driver sat with hands clamped on the steering wheel staring into the whirling drum. They seemed nearly hypnotised.

I lived in student flats years ago and we had a shared laundry room. I hated it mainly because of how long it took to do your laundry. The most time consuming part of it was waiting for people to move their stuff from one machine to the next.

So where is this pub?:)

I don’t let my own dog sleep on my bed. I don’t want someone else’s poochy poo/ fleas/ mange leftovers on my duvet. People who wash pet bedding in them do so as they don’t want the sh:t in their own clothes machines, but fine to use these garage ones and other people to have to wash their clothes in afterwards.
Each to their own, as I said I’d never, ever use these, but I see plenty of people who do. If they’re happy to do so, let them on.

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Spot on
I could never use them after reading this thread. You just can't trust what random people are using them for because as you say, they'll throw their dirty **** or piss stained items in them to save their own machine.

On a similar sidenote and I can't remember the website I read it but you will often find pubic hairs on or in kettles in hotel rooms. Let that set in

Very strange.

You do realise that the other peoples dirt is washed and drained away.

When you wash your clothes at home do you think that the dirt from your clothes remains in the machine?

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

I already said this in the thread. But I will say it again.... Yes the purpose of a washing machine is to clean and wash away as you say. But again I pose a question to you.

... If I were to piss in a kettle. Boil it up. Wash it completely. Would you still like a cup of tea made from it?

I know that's a mad thing to say but there was a report years ago about how many hotel kettles have pubic hairs in or on them.

Sure a public washing machine is like a public toilet. You wouldn't let your arse touch a public toilet seat right? :pac:

So no. I won't be washing my clothes with one of these machines :pac: you can all you want dude.

I think that kettle example you give about hotels is an urban myth.

But anyhow, if somehow you managed to pee in my kettle and it was cleaned thoroughly then I would have no problem using it.

That's what cleaning does, takes dirt away. Dirt is dirt. There's no such thing as good dirt or bad dirt. In a washing machine semen, pee, pet hairs and other things that people seem to be afraid off get washed away and removed just like other day to dirt from food, dust etc. Nothing remains in the drum of a machine.

As for sitting on toilet seats, yes I would sit on them all the time especially in bars and restaurants. Hovering is not good.

I'm really not that precious or afraid of bacteria the way a lot on boards seem to be.

Only time I've ever used them was for the cover of a sofa bed as there was no way it would fit in our domestic machine. Was pleasantly surprised by the results as, like many others here, I was half expecting it to come out covered in pet hairs.

My mother asked me to wash two duvets in these recently €8 or €10 with fabric conditioner, and the inside of the drum coated in disgusting dog hairs.

I found new duvets in Ikea for similar money, and bought her new duvets instead.

A scoop of washing powder, bathful of hot water and I washed the duvets myself at home after for her so she now has a fresh set and a new set also. A bit of wringing and two or three days of dry weather on the clothes line and all you are doing is really washing out a year supply of sweat most is which is captured on the duvet cover anyway.

The price is too much but the real killer is the dog scum who wash rover and tinys filth in there.

theguzman wrote: »

The price is too much but the real killer is the dog scum who wash rover and tinys filth in there.

How very dare you. I would never name a dog something so common and lacking in thought as Rover or Tiny.