I picked out this... thing. The duvet cover had eaten everything in the machine and turned itself into a postmodern textile art piece.
Laundry machine kept stopping because it was unbalanced
I picked out this... thing. The duvet cover had eaten everything in the machine and turned itself into a postmodern textile art piece.
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Ferrous@lemmy.ml · 113 pts · 82d
Hubi@feddit.org · 26 pts · 82d
That's exactly why I always tie a knot in the middle of large things like this lol
Successful_Try543@feddit.org · 21 pts · 82d
I never had duvet covers do this. Fitted sheets however 💀. Now, I put them into a big laundry bag I've bought at a large coffee roastery.
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 82d
You know. I didn’t think about doing that for the dryer. The fitted sheets always eat the rest and then I have a jelly-roll style sheet conglomeration.
pageflight@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 82d
Oh nice, it doesn't pull the knot too tight?
Natanael@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 82d
You have you keep it somewhat loose, just make it so it can't easily catch other things
Hubi@feddit.org · 3 pts · 82d
I've never had that happen personally.
amelia@feddit.org · 17 pts · 82d
How is that even possible! Why is it a topological torus??
whaleross@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 82d
It took me time to find the opening and then to accept that it isn't ripped anywhere. My only explanation is that it took a tumble into the fourth dimension.
0x0@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 82d
Did it come out with unmatched socks inside of it?
whaleross@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 82d
Now that you mentioned it, I think I threw the other one away in 2007.
expatriado@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 82d
when you put predator and pray in the same fish tank
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 82d
Duvets are the worst, it's like the ultimate boss fight for my dryer
Nighed@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 82d
You have to button them (duvet covers) up again before you wash them. I regret it every time I don't.
trinsec@piefed.social · 2 pts · 75d
Yours have buttons?!
Nighed@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 75d
clarifying - duvet COVERS, not the duvet itself.
Of mine, some (more expensive) have buttons, some (IKEA) have poppers, all of them have something though?
trinsec@piefed.social · 1 pts · 75d
Mine are fairly cheap (but feels good) and all they have is just a narrower opening on the foot end. No buttons of any sort. Old, new, doesn't matter. None have buttons.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 82d
You have to do them with just like the fitted sheet and pillow cases.
I still think one swallowed a pillow case and now I can never find the matching one anymore.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 82d
Ugh fuck duvet covers they’ll eat themselves even if they’re closed and the only thing in there
oce@jlai.lu · 8 pts · 82d
You can also use a laundry mesh bag, put either the duvet or the rest in the bag and it will not happen. Laundry bags are also useful to protect clothes with elastics from being stretched and damaged.
heydo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 82d
If you washing machine has a Bedding setting then try using that. It prevents this from happening, at least of front loading machines.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 82d
Mine has one that says waterproof... What the hell is that for?
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 82d
Cleaning things that are hydrophobic
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 82d
Well, yeah waterproof, but I guess what I mean is how is that cycle any different?
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 82d
I assume the soaking cycle times are different? I feel like they would be longer in this case? I don't know the chemistry of detergents, water, and hydrophobic molecules (used in clothing) but I assume the automation either increases soaking time for stain penetration or decrease it if it doesn't matter. ,
whaleross@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 82d
Aha, I'll check it out. Thanks!
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 82d
You're my hero heydo
ickplant@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 82d
It’s official. You are the chosen one, and this is your legendary weapon.
whaleross@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 82d
Well okay then I guess
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 82d
First thought: "why are they holding their baby like that?"
After scrolling down: "oh"
Brownie@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 82d
My washing machine ones created a giant extremelly heavy clump of sheets, started shaking like crazy and with the vibrations drove away from the wall which resulted in the dryer on top almost falling
whaleross@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 82d
I have a combo machine that used to do the Melbourne Shuffle until I put it on rubber feet and lowered the centrifuge speed. Now it is happy twerking mostly in place.
Brownie@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 82d
I might consider that.. Although it only happened once, so we'll see if something similar happens again :D
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 82d
Hmm I need to move mine out of the tiny closet they put it in to redo some ductwork I did poorly when the outside duct froze closed over the winter. Moving them at all was a bitch to the point I taped ratchet straps in place for the next time I needed to move them, but the tape failed and now the one strap is behind the machine. I can get another one behind it, though it will be at risk of messing up the duct where it comes out of the dryer. I'm tempted to knock out the wall beside it and install another door for maintenance access because of how annoying they are to move.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 5 pts · 82d
Wash separately
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 81d
you pulled out the washing machine's intestines
BucketBong@p.hobo.social · 4 pts · 82d
Or it made a perfect rotisserie chicken holder.
BlindPenguin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 82d
Wait, there are laundry machines that stop when something's wrong?
BeUnique@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 82d
It reminds me of intestines
Feadogbandit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 82d
I got some silicone rubber bands from Amazon a few years ago and I use them to tie the four corners of sheets and blankets together before washing and drying. Does a great job keeping them from entangling other items in the machine.
username968142@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 82d
This just happened to me.
whaleross@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 82d
Damn, me too!
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 82d
I recently got a used washer that doesn't have the center column and instead of doing this, blankets now form a bubble or mushroom shape across the whole drum
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 82d
My washer does this all the time. It can be infuriating.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 82d
Mildly, one might say.
UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 43d
Ya I always have to ball up big things I pout into the washer so it doesnt suck up all the other smaller things I put in.
Something sad Ive also found is that when this phenomena occurs sometimes the big articles suck up all the detergent juices and water and prevent the smaller , trapped inside it clothing from getting sufficiently cleaned
whaleross@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 42d
The big eat the small and hog resources meant to be shared by all. The sad parallels of society in the laundry.
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com · 2 pts · 82d
Happens to my sheets all the time. I am just used to it now and prepared to unravel and run again with the stuff that got trapped and is a big ball of damp mess.
MonaySimpson@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 75d
Concrete the washer into the wall.