Rachel for the lint removal: the gadget only works on medium to large pill, which is why you didn’t see a difference on your sweater. For your sweater, use a cheap razor (like one of the disposable kind) and a lint roller. Then just carefully shave the small pill and wipe away with the lint roller. Hope that helps!
Use sandpaper rather than a razor ( in a downward motion to catch the lint). A razor is fine if you are careful, but I am a bit careless and have damaged some of my garments, so I prefer to use sandpaper which works just as well and is less potentially damaging.
Ruth Asuka I have one and I’m one of those people who takes it apart to clean out all of the lint debris from every crevice. And I don’t want to brag or anything, but mine has three height settings. 😂
What i find funny is soaking stinky dirty laundry in detergents are like witchcraft here lol .. Overseas that’s basic steps in laundry! First wet and rinse with just water , then dissolve detergent of choice, soak overnight not too long or they’ll stink.. then rinse and wash again with detergent :) then fabric conditioner .. i guess cause we rarely use washing machine overseas and our clothes are hung in the sun too lol
I thought everyone did this but maybe not, so here it goes...the way to clean the cracks of your faucets is to hold your rag on each end and "floss it" hope that describes it well enough🤗
You can make some by spreading baking soda on a baking sheet and heating it (i forget how long, but its all over the internet). But the heat creates a chemical change in thr baking soda and voila
So the musky smell on your towels is probably coz they haven't dried well enough in the dryer. So maybe dry them directly in the sun and it will get rid of the smell
@@thatfinnishkrista for sure, I don't leave them out for very long in the winter times coz then they get hard even if I use fabric softener. But luckily I live in Africa so there's sun even in the dead of winter
I was wondering what this musky smell was she was talking about but i live in australia and all my laundry is line dried so no wonder 😂😂😂 the only time ive experienced anything similar is when i shared a house with a teenage boy and hed leave his stupid wet towels on the bathroom floor including dirty clothes and not put the extractor fan on or if by some miracle did wash his damn clothes leave them in the washing machine all wet instead of taking them out when they were finished and itd end up being like dank smell. I swear boys be gross af. I wish the men i knew were ocd or ya know basic human cleanliness lkl
@@EmmaAppleBerry I heard in North America you usually wash your things cold and just throw in a bunch of bleach? If that is true for towels and such as well, could that be the reason those cleaning vids end up looking like that? I wash my towels at at least 60°C, usually even at 95°C, because I've learned as a kid anything plus 70°C kills germs.
@Carina S that’s not true, many people in North America will wash on hot with regular laundry detergent (though I am not adverse to a bit of bleach with the undies on occasion). But I do have to wash some clothes on cold with detergent because it’s 100% cotton, which would shrink in hot water. Mustiness can come from leaving damp/wet clothes in the closed space for a day or two, because mold can start to grow on it.
If your washing machine has a "Santitize" mode, you can use that with zero soap and it will do the exact same thing. It just clears away the built up fabric softener and soap that collects on everything.
Since you like to see disgusting things become clean, I highly recommend The Detail Geek's channel. He details cars and does an incredible job and makes them look brand new again. He even tells us which products he is using and they work like magic.
Every time I do a towel load of wash, I use my regular detergent, NO fabric softener (coats the fibers and makes less absorbent) and pour about a 1/3-1/2 cup of ammonia in, wash on hot/heavy duty. My 12yr old towels look and smell like new and are just as fluffy and absorbent as they were to begin with. Highly recommend!
missalyssa108 I use ammonia in with my colored towels and have no issues. I’d give it a try with some old crappy ones you don’t care about though, it could be different for everyone.
Ammonia is toxic to aquatic organisms, and has environmental impact. 1/3 cup weekly is about 4 Liters a year per person. Hopefully this trend doesn't catch on, just buy new towels. www.rand.org/randeurope/research/projects/impact-of-ammonia-emissions-on-biodiversity.html
it really doesn't need to be 5 hours and it really doesn't need to be anything other than laundry soda and a bit of detergent if you want. I do this all the time for sheets and towels, especially the ones from my night rental apartments. it keeps them fresh smelling and soft.
I think that just letting the towels soak in the washing machine overnight before washing them does the trick too! You just put the towels, the detergent, the fabric softener and the bleach than let the washing machine fill up and mix a bit before interrupting the cycle overnight or for a couple hours. My mother in law thought me that. I really liked this video!!
@@isthisnametaken6618 that only happens if you drain the water and just leave the wet towels in, I think this person is saying to leave the water&detergent in with the towels overnight, it should still just smell like detergent and bleach the next day that way!
So glad I’m not the only one who is oddly satisfied and equally grossed out to see just how dirty things are or how clean I can get things in my house!! 🤢🤦🏻♀️🧘♀️
If you haven't already you should check out advanced cleaning systems on RU-vid he's a young black man who runs a carpet/flooring cleaning company and he's brilliant at his job as well as very entertaining. Those are satisfying videos.
I grew up using the sweater shaver in our home since back in the late 80s-90s & still have one. We always had them for knitted items, like sweaters. I also use it on my North Face Denali jackets. Love to see its making a come back!
I’ve had the Bissell cleaner for a long time and I prefer to apply my cleaner separately (i.e. from a spray bottle, cloth, or brush) then use the Bissell to rinse with clean water and remove everything with the vacuum. That way you’re not leaving cleaner in the carpet or fabric. I usually use a Dawn Dish Detergent solution as my cleaner. You have to use the vacuum more than you think to really get it semi-dry. Go in different directions and angles to get the most removal. 👍🏻👍🏻
For small, bright carpet stains that nothing will touch, I sometimes take a razor blade and carefully trim it out. It leaves a little dip, but less noticable than a different colored stain.
I have the bissel little green machine, and I noticed there wasn’t a bunch of water coming out. You have to push really hard to get the liquid out of the carpet! I also use Folex cleaner spray and it works amazing. It would get allll of your stains out!
For the bissell cleaner try to add laundry detergent to the water. I use that instead of the stuff it comes with. And also you are supposed to spray and drag the sucker at the same time as well as use the scrubber to get out stubborn stains.
The lil green machine works a thousand times better if you can get one with heat. We found the heated one removed almost every stain while the regular one did not.
Try the stripping on your kids clothes that they wear when they are at home/playing etc. The water is almost black but it does get the stains and dirt out. It's what I do when my kids outgrow a size before I pack them up/donate them.
The carpet cleaner is amazing if you do it right when you cause the stain! We have the bigger one and we can literally spill red wine on the carpet and as long as we clean it pretty quickly it completely disappears! Very handy to have in the house
Pre-treating the stain is the key to removal. The Bissell SpotBot has been out for like 20 years... thanks for sharing and reminding me about it and why I loved it back in the day. Mine took a crap a year or so after I got it and used the heck outta it... toddler messes
Just a regular toothbrush works fine for cleaning difficult areas in the bathroom. I put my old toothbrushes to use in cleaning...as a way to recycle them...
I feel like the musty smell in towels and linnen doesn't come from the washing but from drying them in a dryer, i would reccomend (if you have the space) to try and dry them in the sun, they smell so good!
I love my green machine! When I bought my car, the previous owner thought it would be funny to slam on his breaks when a friend went to take a drink of his coffee (I was assured that it wasn't hot) and it stained the fabric on the roof from the passenger seat all the way to the back window, so it was nasty, huge and old. I used my green machine and got the entire stain out! My husband and I own a delivery company and unfortunately sometimes things spill onto my seats, everything from pop to pasta sauce and thanks to my green machine, there is no indication of any of them. I used it on my kitchen chairs too, which look new again. I bought mine at Walmart, so there was no waiting for it to be delivered lol.
My Samsung washer has a "sanitize" cycle that lasts about 2 1/2 hours. I exclusively wash my bathroom and kitchen towels on that setting and it gets rid of the musty smell entirely. I also use it on the towels my husband uses when he does water changes on our fish tanks and those come out smelling super clean, too.
For the laundry trick if you have a top loader washing machine you can do this in it. But honestly, I did this when I had a front loader and I knew my front loader didn't wash the laundry well. I hated my front loader. I bought a top-loading machine and when I did this test my water was still clear. So get rid of your front loading washing machine and your laundry will smell cleaner and get cleaner.
I can’t be the only one that knew the tub thing with the laundry wasn’t really going to do anything lol. The water was just foggy MOSTLY because of the soap products sitting for 5 hours. I didn’t know people had an issue going on with a musty smell in their clean towels... I’ve never experienced that other than when clothes aren’t dry enough coming out of the dryer.
Put 1 cup of sudsy ammonia in your wash , it removes the build up and removes the musty smell and makes them nice and absorbent- it removes the fabric softener and smell . Works like a charm and way easier then putting in the tub .
I hate to add to the people that say they know what they are talking about, but the musty smell I realised was coming from the machine itself, then found out washing machines reeeeeally need to be cleaned regularly. If you use a front loader, they are NOTORIOUS for trapping gunk all in the bottom, around the seals ets. The first time I got fed up with my boyfriends clean washing smelling musty i had to run two cleaners through the machine, as well as take out the seals and clean everywhere possible. Now he runs a (bought) cleaning solution through it once a month and the smell has gone. If you have a top loader you can still run cleaners through it and it makes a huge difference. I use one called Dr Beckmann's washing machine cleaner and follow the instructions, plus looked up how to reach all the hidden spots in this particular front loader after running one cleaner through, then ran a second. Washing machines need to be cleaned too!!!!
A lot of the discolouration with the laundry solution is the dye leaching out of the clothing. This stripping method isn’t necessary. I use washing soda with every wash, it keeps your clothes, your machine and pipes clean.
For the fabric shaved or lint/pulling shaver, you need one that has blade settings. I’m a knitter and the ones most of us use have settings for the blades to either bring the blade closer or further from the protective screen. There are also manual ones that look like big razors. You have to work slow to get the best results.
The Detail Geek here on RU-vid has a different spot cleaner but you might be able to check out his technique so that you can get the most out of yours! He used his for vehicles so that’ll be different, but he has a really good technique!
I used to use the chom chom the same way but to use properly you rock it make and forth and the static helps pull the hair up! It’s also much easier when you do it the right way!
My fiancé is an auto detailer and often uses an extractor like that on car seats and carpets and it’s so gross how much dirt comes out of them! We don’t even think about how gross our carpets and seats in the car get! Watching all of the dirt get pulled out is so satisfying honestly lol.
From someone who has owned a Bissell. Please look at videos on how to clean the dirty water tank. There is a process. If not it will start to stink. They make an amazing cleaner for different types of product, the pet one is by far my favorite. Also for tougher stains use warm water first. I've used that thing for maple syrup stains on carpets. Works like a charm!
I’ve used the Bissel spot cleaner before and liked it. The cleaner they send with it isn’t the greatest though, so I use the machine with Folex carpet cleaner. The Folex is supposed to be safe for pets and kids and really has done the best on all of our various stains. It’s super easy to use without a cleaner too. Basically, all you do is spray the Folex on the stain, rub it in (I usually just put in some cleaning gloves and use them to rub in the Folex), and then blot it dry with a towel. It’s an enzymatic cleaner and has worked on both carpet and leather for me.
Conair makes a great little fabric shaver that’s shaped the exact same way but the head has a piece that makes it adjustable to how close the blades get to the fabric which may help your sweater
I use the Lysol Laundry Sanitizer, it really reduces musty odors on clothes and in the machine. There is also special detergent you can get to reduce odors in sports clothes. Rockin' Green is one brand.
For lipstick in the carpet, put a towel over it and use a hot clothing iron. Iron over it to melt the wax and it will stick to the towel. For left over pigment then you can clean it. This trick also works on melted candle wax in carpet.
So for the bissell thing, I have one, I use a laundry stain remover because I never get around to working on fresh stains they are always old. But I’ll use like shout or something let it sit for like 5-10 mins then use the bissell and it works for me.
I add a splash of Pine Sol to my musty smelling items during the wash & that has always helped my laundry coming out smelling more fresh :) I also love my Bissel Steam Shot for cleaning those hard to reach grimy areas
I've just been told about fabric shavers. I love mine, had an old coat that was never truly clean, I trimmed it and it was life-changing. definitely works best on obvious pulls and lint bundles
There are different heads for the giant electric cleaning toothbrush (we totally call it that too). We use the one that's a pointed shape so it gives you way more precision for the spots under your faucet, or we use it the most around the sink drains. Gets right in the cracks! We barely use the flat head because it's just not as useful in hard to reach spaces.
So, to strip my towels, I use half a cup of baking soda as my detergent, white vinegar as fabric softener, allow that to cycle through and then I wash again with my detergent!
The laundry stripping is very similar to how you strip and clean cloth diapers. It’s great for those so oils don’t build up on them and repels the moisture rather than pulling it away from baby bums.
My mom had a little green machine and she used it for fresh spills and it would prevent staining and smells. Especially with pets or little ones running around.
When you do the vinegar in with your towels youre supposed to wash on hot and dry on hot, and to make it work best you only do a load of towels. That completely got rink of the musty towel smell.
I have the bissell machine and id like to say it doesn’t really seem like it was picking up much of the water? Unless you barely used any solution. What I normally do is use some laundry detergent or sometimes Lysol concentrate diluted (depending on the mess) and ONLY WARM WATER in the machine. Spray or rub the solution on, you can even use the little scrub attachment with the machine turned off and then turn it on and spray the water to dilute all the soap and suck it up. If you leave soap/detergent/solution in your carpet it will actually get dirtier over time because any drop of water reactivates the soap left in the fibers and makes your carpet act as a scrubber brush to clean dirty things, leaving the carpet dirty and stained. Hopefully this helped someone. I also HIGHLY recommend the bissell crosswave as it literally changed my life and is one of the only hard floor cleaners that actually uses two clean water and sucks up dirty water (instead of spreading dirt around like the bottom of a swiffer pad would do.) it has a clean water tank and dirty water tank it’s basically like this but it works like a regular vacuum that also washes your carpets and hard floors simultaneously. (I also use a sanitizing solution in it for extra cleanliness. ) Sorry for the long comment but this stuff changed my life and how easy it was to keep my space clean so I hope it helps someone else.
Ive hard the carpet/upholstery cleaner machine for about a year and i LOVE it!!! With 3 kids and 4 pets i use it pretty regularly!!! Its so nasty yet sooo satisfying!!! *i have the purple one - spotclean pet pro and it gets EVERYTHING out!!!*
Premature comment. Just finished the laundry part and tbh when my washing machine broke and I had to hand wash everything in the tub I realized that it always got things more clean than just machine washing so I think if you did that with just your normal detergent, it would still have the same results
You can also wash towels in the washer with white vinegar to remove any mildew smells as well, if that does work you can also try baking soda! I hate mildew smell so much and this truck works every time!
I love it how your Sister and Dad have a similar carpet 😝 Loving these videos during lockdown, I don’t know how you have so much energy with a newborn but it’s great you do 😱🥰
Rachel, to spot clean carpets, I combine Oxyclean, vinegar, and Dawn dish washing liquid with hot water. (Patch test the carpet first!) I soak the spot and gently brush it into the stain. If it is still not coming up, I'll sprinkle baking soda on the wet carpet. I have cleaned very old stains with this mixture with GREAT SUCCESS!
For the laundry stripping, you really can see a difference in the water's color. It's quite a bit greyer. I think it was less dramatic because it was white so no dyes and because they're probably not things that get as sneakily gunked up. You should try doing your pillows.
I have one of those power scrubbers from a different brand and it came with a whole bunch of different brush heads. I use it ALLLLLL the time for stuff all over my house. I have some mobility issues and it helps me do a good scrubbing without having to wear myself out doing it.
I have done laundry stripping on white shirts, tshirts etc for a long time but usually just throw borax and soda in my machine during a regular wash. You are correct with dark clothes.... I tend not to use those additives as a lot of the “ grime” is just dye.
Quick tip when you spill something on your carpet clean it under the carpet. If you clean it from the up, grease and dirt will resurface over and over again no matter how much you clean it.
Fun fact, really hot water and any soap will do the same as the soak. I use pet stain remover, my normal laundry soap, some laundry smell goods, and baking soda. But it's mostly the hot water.
