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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Soooo, Scorcho's Weatherbetta smells a bit "manly," I guess is the word. How do you clean your blankets and make them smell April fresh again? |
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| the local laundry mat, use one of the big washers :) they just love it when you wash your horse stuff there! I always pay for a second wash, and just put some detergent to clean the washer when I'm done. |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | nquinn - 2015-01-15 11:34 AM the local laundry mat, use one of the big washers :) they just love it when you wash your horse stuff there! I always pay for a second wash, and just put some detergent to clean the washer when I'm done.
LOL...they LOVE it? Sounds fishy to me lol. |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Oh yeah, they will love seeing you come in with your horse blankets to wash them.....Ummm, well mine not so much!  |
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Location: Kentucky | Laundry mat late at night :)
We have a local tack/feed store that cleans them for $10 a blanket. |
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Blessed 
Location: Here | Spray down with Odorban |
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| Laundrymat - EARLY in the morning! |
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| I may be the only one that does this but I just wash them myself and then air dry. So far, no problems! |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | I go to the laundromat by me that has no attendant. Just don't dry them on high.... blankets melt. LOL |
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Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | I may wait for the next large rain and put Dawn dishwashing liquid on it, then turn the big boy loose in the weather lol. I, also, thought of putting it on the hood of my truck and going through a drive thru car wash. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | LRQHS - 2015-01-15 1:05 PM I may wait for the next large rain and put Dawn dishwashing liquid on it, then turn the big boy loose in the weather lol. I, also, thought of putting it on the hood of my truck and going through a drive thru car wash.
No offense, but these are terrible ideas  |
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| LRQHS - 2015-01-15 1:05 PM
I may wait for the next large rain and put Dawn dishwashing liquid on it, then turn the big boy loose in the weather lol. I, also, thought of putting it on the hood of my truck and going through a drive thru car wash.
I tried that they get angry at the car wash cuz those machines drag the blanket off of your truck and get stuck in the brushes!! I am not allowed to come back to that carwash! |
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| Murphy - 2015-01-15 11:42 AM
Laundry mat late at night :)
We have a local tack/feed store that cleans them for $10 a blanket.
Laundromat late at night :) and I always let mine hang dry! If you have barstools for your kitchen/dining room they work extremely well to drape blankets and coolers over. |
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Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | There has got to be another answer besides sneak in to the laundromat at the break of dawn..... |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | if your very sneaky and dont get caught i used to use the laundromat, but if they caught you they would kick you out...now i found a great place that washes them for 15 bucks a blanket....YYYAAAAYYYYYY
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | mruggles - 2015-01-15 1:22 PM if your very sneaky and dont get caught i used to use the laundromat, but if they caught you they would kick you out...now i found a great place that washes them for 15 bucks a blanket....YYYAAAAYYYYYY
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...in Canada. I'd be better off just buying a new blanket. It would cost me $3000 to drive to Canada to wash my blankets. |
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Good Grief!
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | LRQHS - 2015-01-16 12:25 PM mruggles - 2015-01-15 1:22 PM if your very sneaky and dont get caught i used to use the laundromat, but if they caught you they would kick you out...now i found a great place that washes them for 15 bucks a blanket....YYYAAAAYYYYYY
m ...in Canada. I'd be better off just buying a new blanket. It would cost me $3000 to drive to Canada to wash my blankets.
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| I have always used a pressure washer with dish soap. And than flip it over a fence to air dry. Works for me LOL. |
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| I just wash them in my washer and dry them in the dryer if the weather is too cold here. I just run soap, lemon juice and some baking soda through the washer after and I usually wipe the dryer down after. In the summer I just lay them out throw some soap on them and hose them off. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Laundromat. But I run an empty cycle through to clean it... We only have one that lets us wash them in town now... The rest have big signs saying No Equine/Horse related items including but not limited to blankets, saddle blankets, throws, and turnouts.
Guess they got tired of our horsies cologne? |
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| LRQHS - 2015-01-15 1:05 PM I may wait for the next large rain and put Dawn dishwashing liquid on it, then turn the big boy loose in the weather lol. I, also, thought of putting it on the hood of my truck and going through a drive thru car wash.
LOL .... you could, do that or just drive down the road throwing money out the window!!! |
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Location: In a happy place | I have a concrete floor in my barn so I lay them out, use horse shampoo and get a broom and turn the water on them and start scrubbing. |
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| LRQHS - 2015-01-15 1:10 PM There has got to be another answer besides sneak in to the laundromat at the break of dawn.....
As of yet, kinda is the best. Unless you ship 'em to someone else....... |
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| We always wash ours at the laundry mat. They never say anything to us. |
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Sock Snob
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| I put mine on a gate took the car wash brush to it rinsed it pretty clean then put it in my front load. After it completed then wash i did another quick wash. Then i put the blanket the dog lays on that imwash every week. The front load did well. |
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Location: La Vernia, TX | I let em soak in a big trough filled with water then pressure wash and hang to dry. If they last more than a couple seasons, I send them off to a service and they come back good as new. Not super cheap, but cheaper than buying new blankets. |
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| I hang mine on the fence behind my trailer on their off season. As in the fly sheets are out detoxing now, and their winter blankets will be out after winter. I flip them a few times to get both sides clean. I wait until they are clean and dry and then fold and store. It usually takes about 3 months of weather to get them clean. I do sometimes have to chase them down after big winds. I clean felt pads the same way. No chance of detergent reaction this way. |
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Eau de El Scorcho.....