Is it ok to machine wash clothes,tea towels etc with Fairy liquid?

[pawl]

I've run out of washing powder. I went out shopping last night but i didn't have enough room in my saddle bag for even a small box of washing powder, so i couldn't buy any. I'm thinking of using Fairy Liquid. After all,it breaks down grease and stuff so why not? What do you reckon. Use it or wait till i can fit some washing powder in my saddle bag?

If you want you're kitchen finishing as giant bubble bath go ahead.Assuming your washing machine is in the kitchen

 

[TheDoctor]

Christ-onna-Brompton is this thread still going?
If you've got biological washing powder to try cleaning a drain, then why are you wanting to use washing-up liquid to do your smalls?
Are you on an eternal quest to use the wrong thing for any given purpose, or just trying to drive us all scatty?
*and breathe*

Oh, and you need some panniers. Or sectioning. Or both, perhaps.

 

[tyred]

Car windscreens are glass, so you need to use vinegar. Diluted spirit vinegar is more successful than balsamic.

Just buy a new car every time the windscreen needs cleaning.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I ended up buying some Domestos,which is a glorified bleach.I poured it onto the black slime build up and left it for a good few hours,then directed the shower on it expecting the slime to work loosen. It didn't. I had to work it loose with my finger. It's now clean,but what a dirty devil the previous occupier must've been.

 

[Salty seadog]

Car windscreens are glass, so you need to use vinegar. Diluted spirit vinegar is more successful than balsamic.

I prefer acetic acid...

 

[Fab Foodie]

I prefer acetic acid...

Organic of course.....

 

[stephec]

Just buy a new car every time the windscreen needs cleaning.

This sounds like one of the top tips from The Viz.

 

[perplexed]

I ended up buying some Domestos,which is a glorified bleach.I poured it onto the black slime build up and left it for a good few hours,then directed the shower on it expecting the slime to work loosen. It didn't. I had to work it loose with my finger. It's now clean,but what a dirty devil the previous occupier must've been.

I'd have used a stick... have a poke around in the garden.

 

[Bazzer]

I'd have used a stick... have a poke around in the garden.

I'd have used what was suggested, namely drain cleaner or bicarbonate of soda, then if necessary a stick.
Perhaps if bleach and hands had been suggested, them drain cleaner and a stick would have been used?

 

[Drago]

I ended up buying some Domestos,which is a glorified bleach.I poured it onto the black slime build up and left it for a good few hours,then directed the shower on it expecting the slime to work loosen. It didn't. I had to work it loose with my finger. It's now clean,but what a dirty devil the previous occupier must've been.

Dirty Gertie from number 30.

 

[furball]

I ended up buying some Domestos,which is a glorified bleach.I poured it onto the black slime build up and left it for a good few hours,then directed the shower on it expecting the slime to work loosen. It didn't. I had to work it loose with my finger. It's now clean,but what a dirty devil the previous occupier must've been.

The slime has nothing to do with dirt so that's a harsh comment about the previous occupier. Perhaps they were elderly and not capable of getting down on their hands and knees to poke around in the drain.
Slime is the result of the permanently wet environment causing biofilms to form that combine the toiletries that go down the drain, hair and skin cells.
So assuming you use the shower and use toiletries and have hair (we all know you have a thick skin) even you will build up your own personal slime if you don't lift out and clean the trap on a regular basis.
Next time try pouring washing soda into the drain, it's cheap and shouldn't react with the plastic pipes like bleach does. Cue post about a leaking shower drain pipe.

 

[Accy cyclist]

The previous occupier is 53 years old. Granted he's not what you'd call a fit and healthy 53 year old, but he lived in this flat for 5 years. It's taken me a month to find this muck and clean it. What took him so long?

 

[Tim Hall]

Next time use caustic soda on the drain. Gets through the fat and slime like a pisshead through curry. Read the instructions. Wear goggles and glasses.

 

[classic33]

The previous occupier is 53 years old. Granted he's not what you'd call a fit and healthy 53 year old, but he lived in this flat for 5 years. It's taken me a month to find this muck and clean it. What took him so long?

Do nothing more to it and check it in two weeks time. You'll be suprised how quick it builds up.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Next time use caustic soda on the drain. Gets through the fat and slime like a pisshead through curry. Read the instructions. Wear goggles and glasses.

That used to be one of my favourite cleaning agents,but these days it seems to go rock hard as soon as it touches water. I end up picking hard lumps of caustic soda out of drains and plugholes without it having had an affect. I tried the mix with water then pour method,but it still went rock hard.