My clothes are being eaten

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  21/04/07 - 11:04 #2

  An less stinky and more environmentally sound alternative is to use cedar balls. You can also get these in blocks that hang in your wardrobe, or as shavings that can be put into pouches and sprinkled with oils to perfume the area rather than honk it out with chemicals.

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  21/04/07 - 11:54 #3

  Ahh, thank you so much Macaroni! I'm going to go out and buy some now.

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  21/04/07 - 21:34 #4

  are you sure it isnt your washing machine, our old one used to catch clothes in gap by the seal on the door and rip them, we needed a new type of seal

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  21/04/07 - 23:08 #5

  We bought a new washing machine about a month ago so I don't think it was that. Well I hope not, it cost enough!
  
  The utility room where we keep the dryer and linen etc has an outside door where a lot of moths hang out together. They are my prime suspects.
  
  Thank you for the suggestion though.

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  22/04/07 - 00:11 #6

  calvin&hobbs wrote:

  are you sure it isnt your washing machine, our old one used to catch clothes in gap by the seal on the door and rip them, we needed a new type of seal

  
  Do washing machines fly about in wardrobes without being noticed ?

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  22/04/07 - 03:26 #7

  sketcher wrote:

  I think I have a moth problem.
  Holes are appearing in my clothes and linen.
  Is there anything I can use other than stinky moth balls?

  
  If the holes are small and appearing in natural fabrics (cotton, wool, silk) it is more likely to be biological washing powder/liquid causing the problem, if that is what you use. The enzymes that eat the stains also eat the fabric, if what I remember from a long explanation from a chemistry teacher who used to work for Lever is right.
  
  Cedar balls, as recommended above, worked for me years ago when I found holes in woollen winter clothes stored in a wardrobe. At least it has not happened since then.

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  22/04/07 - 04:18 #8

  sketcher wrote:

  We bought a new washing machine about a month ago so I don't think it was that. Well I hope not, it cost enough!
  
  The utility room where we keep the dryer and linen etc has an outside door where a lot of moths hang out together. They are my prime suspects.
  
  Thank you for the suggestion though.

  
  You keep the DRYER?. Eff it off and just hang your stuff up until it dries. My best clothes, that I wore, died in a tumble dryer. Loved them for 10 years, died in 1year in that over heated crp.

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  22/04/07 - 09:13 #9

  I've past experience of death by tumble dryer and only dry my undies and sheets in it.

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  22/04/07 - 10:05 #10

  mazey wrote:

  If the holes are small and appearing in natural fabrics (cotton, wool, silk) it is more likely to be biological washing powder/liquid causing the problem, if that is what you use. The enzymes that eat the stains also eat the fabric, if what I remember from a long explanation from a chemistry teacher who used to work for Lever is right.
  
  Cedar balls, as recommended above, worked for me years ago when I found holes in woollen winter clothes stored in a wardrobe. At least it has not happened since then.

  
  Hmmm, there's a thought. I do use biological washing powder. I think a change of powder and ceder balls should do the trick. Thank you

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