Is there a certain type of washing liquid/powder that will allow colours to be mixed?

[Marcos]

Vinegar is acidic and so eats limescale. I poured a load down my toilet while I went to work, them came back and gave it a good scrubbing and it came up absolutely mint, with about five minutes of elbow grease I got rid of a nasty lump of limescale that had been there for ages.

Interesting ,

[Rave]

Apparently vinegar works as a fabric softener too- although I personally don't give a monkeys whether my clothes are soft, so I've never bothered.

[SilentDeath]

Some people use bleach instead of vinegar but this tends to require a fair few rinses to get rid of, vinegar doesn't. Gets the drum nice and sparkly clean and completely whiff free.



Oh and don't be an eejit and try it with malt vinegar.

DONT use bleach!!!!!

Bleach: Stable. Contact with acids releases poisonous gas (chlorine). Light sensitive. Incompatible with strong acids, amines, ammonia, ammonium salts, reducing agents, metals, aziridine, methanol, formic acid, phenylacetonitrile.

[rox0r]

I think that means, as your instructed not to do so on the bottle, if you leave it in contact with metals for long periods.

Bleach is fine to use so long as you use cheap thin stuff and not thick stuff meant for round the rim and you rinse it out properly.