PUL products - wash routines

[Lily's_Mom]

I'm wondering if I can throw in all my PUL products with the rest of my diaper laundry in the hot wash, or if this would damage them over time.

For diaper laundry, we will turn up our water heater all the way, so the hot will be very hot. I guess I'm mostly concerned about the covers; if I should be hand-washing or washing them with the rest of the baby laundry (in warm water), or if they will survive the hot wash just fine.

This is all the PUL we have:

thirsties and motherease airflow covers
jamtots wetbags
swaddlebees changepads
bummis pail liner
pockets: Bumgenius, HappyHeinys, fuzzibunz

As far as the dryer goes, the bummis pail liner is nylon, so I won't ever put it in the dryer. But I think for the covers, pockets, wetbags and changepads I will mostly hang them to dry and every now and then throw them in the dryer to help reseal the PUL.

Thoughts/experiences? TIA.

[Katie T]

I always put mine in the washer for the hot wash w/dipes & then in the drier on high. This has been my routine for 3 yrs & havent ruined anything yet. In the summer I do hang dry as weather permits. I say you would be fine.

[Sheryl1678]

I wash everything together on a warm cycle and dry in the dryer. The Bummis covers and and wetbag are in near perfect shape.

[inky leeuhhh]

i hand wash all my covers and they all look like new even after four months. however, we have to haul stuff over to my moms house to wash. if i had a washer here im sure they'd be going in the machine with everything else. lol. if you really want them to last, handwashing is great- but i dont think machine washing on hot would be too terrible either.

[mambera]

The dryer reseals the PUL? I didn't know that. I do hang dry my covers, but I am actually more concerned about the elastic in the diapers degrading from the heat of the dryer than about the shelf life of the PUL.

I wash covers separately from inserts. Partly to protect the covers from the triple wash but also bc I don't really want to wash pooey inserts together with *any* other laundry.

Inserts (and the PUL wetbag we use as a diaper hamper) go through cold prewash, hot wash, double rinse, machine dry hot. Covers go through a warm wash (with other baby laundry, including PUL changepads) and then hang dry. I do put the PUL changing pads in the hot dryer along with everything else.

I was hoping this would increase the shelf life of the covers. I did not know that about the PUL resealing in the dryer though.

[Lily's_Mom]

Thanks for sharing your wisdom! I will just throw all the diaper laundry together in the hot wash. We will probably hang to dry mostly, but not worry about wrecking anything by putting it in the dryer.

Thanks again.

[leavemealone]

I only really have pockets and I wash them on a cold rinse, then hot wash. I then throw them in to the dryer on low. I haven't had a problem with them yet, but I've only been using them about six months. I have a few Gro Baby diapers as well and I just throw them in the same cycle if I've used them.