On Thursday 16 May 2013 11:57 Frank Erskine wrote in uk.d-i-y:

On Thu, 16 May 2013 09:56:45 +0100, Andy Champ
wrote:

On 15/05/2013 21:38, Dave Liquorice wrote:
But there is an open path from the drum up into the drawer area. A
properly thought through and designed machine would make sure that the
drawer area got reasonably hot, 70 C plus. But a) I doubt that much
thought goes into that area of a machines design and b) the elvensafty
safety lot wouldn't allow it incase some one opened the drawer and got a
scald from it or the hot steam...

How is it going to get the drawer area up to 70 when most people don't
do any washes above 60?

I regularly wash such as white towels at 95 C.


Likewise - and it was not hard to convince SWMBO that the merits of giving
the washing machine a good flush out made it worth it.

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