On 10/05/2010 09:02, Him & Her wrote:
Andy Cap wrote in message
o.uk...
Jo wrote:
We have, for some time now, been noticing small yellow spots appearing on
white washing. We recently bought a few new sets of white bed linen and
every single item has now been spotted with yellow marks.
This is becoming very frustrating as the marks cannot be removed.
We run a hot wash through our washing machine regularly and mostly wash
at 30 degs, with the occasional 40 deg wash for some towels or bed linen.

Having googled this problem, it seems that it's quite common but no-one
seems to know the answer. Can anyone here enlighten me at all?

Trying washing two white pieces of material without any detergent.
Dry one in the drier and one on the line.
This *might* prove the contamination is coming from inside the washing
machine or far less likely, the drier.

Surely better to wash one in the machine and dry naturally (line/airer) and
wash the other (same detergent) by hand and dry in the drier. If they're
both marked, it's the detergent. If only one is marked, it's the relevant
machine.



I have only ever experienced this with the drier overheating.
John Gifford