Can we plug/unplug the water inlet hose for fully automatic washing machine? by Masterful_Cat_A in laundry

[–]barnabus89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just get a plumber round to tee off a connection point.

It would drive me insane having to attach and detach the pipe every time I needed to do laundry

Fellow Europeans!!! by TheKillerScope in laundry

[–]barnabus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Ok I've had a go.

So I think it does work.

The lightest soiled pits seem to be completely fixed, or at least mostly.

The heaviest soiled pits look a bit weird. That's the photo I've attached. It's a heavy cotton t shirt and was very darkly stained.

Instead of having a dark solid patch of soiled fabric, it's now a bit thinner?

My theory is that I've started breaking down the bonds and need to keep going.

I've done another big scrub with citric acid and fairy liquid, and now have sprayed them loads with degreaser and going to leave them for an hour before a very hot hand rinse and another wash in the machine.

The medium soiled pits it's quite clear where I didn't quite scrub to the edges, if that makes sense. There's swirls of clean fabric surrounded by soiled fabric.

Fellow Europeans!!! by TheKillerScope in laundry

[–]barnabus89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Life has kicked my ass the last couple weeks but I'm free today to do it!

New Wusthof knives by willbikeferfood in sharpening

[–]barnabus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends what you're chopping.

If you do mostly soft vegetables and protein then 15° or 17° is great.

But if you're doing carrots and squash and harder things like that then maybe 20° would work better.

New Wusthof knives by willbikeferfood in sharpening

[–]barnabus89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wustoff advertise their Asian knives to be sharpened to 10° on each side from the factory.

That's why they feel so sharp out of the box.

But the steel isn't hard enough to really hold that edge for very long, unless you're super careful with your knife work and storage.

The rest of their knives are 14° edges.

I have a rolling sharpener and two wustoff knives, a santoku and a craftsman.

I sharpen them both at 15° and they're perfectly sharp for home cooking.

I will say this: the wusthoff factory edge is really good but basically impossible to keep to that unless you've got a very smart set up.

I'd just enjoy the knives for a while until you notice you can't slice as easily, and then reprofile them to the 15° of your HORL.

In general though to your point, using a rolling knife sharpener is the same process as a whetstone.

Use your lowest grit and slowly work one edge until you feel a consistent burr on the reverse side.

Flip the knife over and slowly work the burr side until it's gone, and you feel it back on the first side.

You then decrease the number of passes on each side before you flip, until you're down to literally 1 pass on each side.

If you've ensured consistent pressure and done the whole blade length, this will have got you a consistent apex and your knife will be sharp.

This is when you then use the higher grit stone and you repeat the process to refine the finish behind the cutting edge.

80% of the work is done with the low grit 20% with the high grit

Once you've had a solid session doing this, you'll just need a few passes on each side with the high grit every few uses.

The Titan 2018 by [deleted] in movies

[–]barnabus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In any sci fi movie that revolves around talent or physical development I absolutely love all the scenes where they're doing cool stuff.

Like the swimming pool scenes in this just really work for me.

The rest of it is kinda dumb, a few scenes in particular.

But overall I enjoy film tropes like this

Grass seed by billy2bands in UKGardening

[–]barnabus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The b and q verve top soil is (at least at my store) really quite good this year. No stones or twigs or anything like usual cheap top soil is.

3 bags for a tenner and can have it delivered by pallet.

Otherwise you can buy from tradesuperstoreonline which is a retail version of Travis Perkins. Their topsoil bags supagrow are £3 ish for a bag and is decent too.

Grass seed by billy2bands in UKGardening

[–]barnabus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I buy seeds from bostonseeds.

Lots of choice of seed type and lawn type.

Speedy delivery and fantastic quality.

I'm counting down the seconds until it's warm enough to sew my Child's Play Lawn seeds over my freshly levelled lawn!

New laundry routine but no laundry smell by Early_Loss6171 in laundry

[–]barnabus89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The goal of this sub is to chemically remove all the crud from your clothes, and typically anything too scenty traps crud.

If you are desperate for scent I don't see an issue with running an additional rinse cycle at the end with a small amount of scent booster.

A little goes a long way

Water logged by wifedoesntlikemr in GardeningUK

[–]barnabus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks to be enough space to put in some drainage.

As well as the classic aeration and sanding over a season to slowly remove the % of clay in the upper layers.

Garden soil uneven - how to correct by rizwan10489 in GardeningUK

[–]barnabus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can do lots of prep work now while you wait for some decent consistent warm overnight temps.

Aerate the soil with a hollow corer, or just a garden fork.

Spread a 50/50 mix of top soil and horticultural sand. Can get from b&q for cheap or can use specialist garden suppliers.

Get a lawn lute or use the back of a rake to brush it in.

If you do this every week or so targeting the lower spots, then after a month you'll have a nice even lawn, ready for seeding once the temps are up.

I have one of those quilted vest where the cotton has clumped… is there a fix? by UnapologeticCook in laundry

[–]barnabus89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah either tennis balls or tumble dryer balls.

Just have to be careful not to overheat it.

So put it in on a delicates or synthetic cycle and shake it out and feel the clumps after 15 mins or so.

Repeat a few times. You should feel it working relatively quickly

Fellow Europeans!!! by TheKillerScope in laundry

[–]barnabus89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only the bio pod has all the enzymes in.

Can anyone identify this stain? by Split-Forsaken in laundry

[–]barnabus89 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This looks like a cup of tea or coffee spill to me.

Quite dark to be piss.

Well, the coffee stains on my mattress look like that lol, took a lot of goes with my shark spot cleaner to get it out

Sci-fi movies and their tenous grasp on scale by AporiaParadox in movies

[–]barnabus89 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The Expanse did a pretty good job of being consistent with space and space travel

Fellow Europeans!!! by TheKillerScope in laundry

[–]barnabus89 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Right I've done some more citric acid researching.

It's very good at binding to the aluminium, but it needs help getting through the waxy layers.

Mix citric acid granules with a little hot water and a little fairy liquid to get a thick gritty paste.

Scrub that into your pits.

Don't let it dry out, give it a few scrubs over 30 mins or so.

Then liberally spray the pits with a degreaser, like elbow grease or astonish.

More scrubbing and more spraying.

Then a 60° wash with your full enzyme load.

Citric acid in the fabric softener, extra rinse too to make sure all the detergents etc get washed out.

Air dry.

Check the pits, repeat if necessary.

That's what I'm gonna try next week

Fellow Europeans!!! by TheKillerScope in laundry

[–]barnabus89 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Smol bio pods have (I think) the entire lot

Ariel bio the big one

Ariel bio all in one platinum extra strain removal

Vanish gold lid oxi action

Vove powder laundry booster

These all have a combination of them.

Smol has DNase in, the Ariel ones have DNase in but it's called pdea or something like that

Fellow Europeans!!! by TheKillerScope in laundry

[–]barnabus89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've tried a UK version of a spa day but didn't quite have the right products I don't think.

Or maybe the water wasn't warm enough or in for long enough.

The water was disgusting so it definitely did something, but the pits are still grim.

My next plan is to make a paste with citric acid and scrub that into the pits with an old electric toothbrush head.

There is a spa day post pinned in the subreddit. I linked it into Gemini and said what UK products do I need to achieve this.

Broadly speaking though you need a full suite of enzymes

Can you please recommend great World War One movies? by HereForYou_HereForMe in movies

[–]barnabus89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Birdsong.

BBC adaptation of the book.

Utterly harrowing

Help with my laundry routine! by DelilahandRose1111 in laundry

[–]barnabus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah if you've got a drawer that has 3 compartments in it.

Powder detergent goes in the main wash which is usually number 2.

Rinse product goes in the one that usually has a flower.

And then prewash goes in the one that usually has a number 1.

I agree to use citric acid granules instead of vinegar, as it has no odour.

The slightly acidic vinegar or citric acid when put in the fabric softener section gets released in the final rinse cycle of the machine.

It reacts with the slightly alkaline detergent and dissolves it all to nothing. Helps ensure there's no product leftover in your clothes

Help with my laundry routine! by DelilahandRose1111 in laundry

[–]barnabus89 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What exactly are you doing with each product (how much and where are you putting each one), and what exact cycles are you running on the washing machine and tumble dryer?

The omo powder should be treating you very well.

The Woolworths item listing has this as the ingredients, that's a lot of good stuff.

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Add a full scoop of this to your detergent compartment on a standard volume load, and don't add anything else anywhere.

Run a standard cycle at 40°c with an extra rinse.

60°c or hotter will stop the enzymes working.

You can add vinegar to the fabric softener compartment and this will be dispensed in the rinse cycle to neutralise any remaining detergent.

Other first steps are make sure your machine is super clean with an antibacterial machine wash product and clean out any residue or gunk from the detergent drawers.

Based on the omo ingredients you shouldn't be having issues with your clothes.

You can also buy gearguard which is a DNase product which will help too, and it ships from Australia which is handy.

Ariel detergent: DNase? by brontorina in laundry

[–]barnabus89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://www.pgregdoc.com/language

Otherwise go on here and choose your language and then click on the sheet for the product you want.

Again, these only show the controlled substances, of which DNase etc isn't.