Do you wash cleaning cloths with normal laundry?

Callistomon
No teasing. Come on, tell us, I know your gagging to.

MawB
Mmmm, let me think.
Ok I thought. I think they're both equally riveting. ?

Does everyone hang their cleaning cloths on the washing line?
I have assorted colours, lemongrove
Surely everyone has different colours for different tasks?

Shall I list them? I'm sure you'd all love to know

MawB2

This thread is turning out to be nearly as riveting as the party dress/sparkly balloon arch debate !???

? Shall I tell you what colours my dishcloths are?

The hot wash I use for towels and cloths is 60.

Juicylucy

Yes dish cloths go in the hot wash with other things like towels etc.

Same here.
I have about four dishcloths so they get changed every few days.

I never wash above 40, sometimes 30, thought that is what we are supposed to do. Washing divided by colour ie whites/darks and everything in together. Tea towels only touch clean dishes so not sure why they need to be hot washed separately.
I hardly ever use bleach.....

This thread is turning out to be nearly as riveting as the party dress/sparkly balloon arch debate !???

I've just switched to using bamboo dish cloths, Lakeland do one which is a thick, strong "stockinette" type and Amazon have a bamboo waffle fabric. Bamboo is supposed to be anti-bacterial so I wouldn't worry about putting them in with the normal wash.
The cloths are fairly expensive but the reviews say that they wash well.
I'll just have to see which last better without looking tatty.
I might put floor cloths through with a dark wash, but usually I pour boiling water over them.
I don't use cloths to wipe any chopping boards that have had raw meat on them, always use neat washing up liquid and a stiff brush. So my dish cloths are unlikely to be dangerously grubby.

I soak dish cloths in boiling water and bleach.

Dishcloths go in with towels and tea towels on a 40 deg wash and bleached when needed. Would never put them in with a clothes wash.

I don’t use washing up cloths. I use a sponge cloth* for wiping surfaces, it gets a soak in bleach until it’s past saving.
I have lots of tea towels so I wait until there are plenty and do them on their own at 60 deg.

*The other day I ordered a pack of compostable sponge cloths from the milkman, supposed to be machine washable up to 300 times. Seem good so far, but we shall see.

No I always wash tea towels n dish cloths together but never ever with other washing

My cleaning cloths go into soak with bleach every evening after I have used them to wash down my kitchen doors and appliances then put to dry on patio for next day.

Barrygirl - bamboo disposable cloths are fully degradable and compostable, they degrade in three weeks or less without releasing harmful chemicals.

SupaPam that's what I used to say when my kids were little and I used to boil white socks on the hob and that was called Sock stew.

mumofmadboys
I’m with you Not enough people are thinking of the environment.

I always boil my cloths for half an hour. I told my kids and now my grandkids that i am making ‘dishcloth soup’.

I wash everything together unless it is really delicate, then I hand wash it.(My grandmother left me all her beautiful handmade slips and nightdresses. A few years ago as I washed them I put them out to dry then brought them in, wrapped them in linen and laid them away in the drawer under the wardrobe. Life's too short and I'm too old and cold to wear French silk and lace any more!)

Wait - people wash wash cloths? when mine looks manky I soak it in bleach.

mine go in with the usual wash , the difference being that i use 60 degress temperature

I put cleaning cloths in with towels. Usually at 60 degrees , maybe 40 and usually with a laundry disinfectant. I wouldn't put them in with clothes other than maybe an old pair of gardening trousers.

I wash tea towels with towels and bed linen on 60 degree wash. J cloths put in bleach and throw away when they start to tear. Dusters and micro fibre get washed seperately.

Jcloths and dish cloths often go in dishwasher also they get bleached.

Never wash above 40 degrees. Read an article about using a short blast in the microwave for cleaning clothes after washing and drying but never found it necessary.