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How to wash curtains with eyelets in a washing machine

curtains with eyeletsCurtains on grommets are a fashionable and beautiful window decoration, which is an important attribute of a stylishly designed room. Curtains are not only decoration, but also a fully functional element that protects your room from prying eyes and scorching sunlight. However, it must be remembered that curtains with eyelets are a real dust collector and they must be washed periodically. Read how to do this in our article.

Getting ready to wash

Finding out how to wash curtains with eyelets, you need to decide how to prepare these curtains for washing, because this is also very important. One of the main questions of exciting housewives: will metal eyelets rust after washing? In fact, modern grommets are made of coated metal or generally stainless alloys, so there is no need to fear for them. Well, if the question is fundamental, then try to pull out the grommets. In most cases, they are perfectly removable.

To dexterously remove the eyelets from the curtains, while not breaking or breaking anything, use the help of your spouse.

Before preparing the curtains for washing, they must be removed from the cornice. Curtains with grommets are removed at one moment, not like any others. We remove the plug, which is installed on the edge of the cornice and pulls the curtains over this edge. That's all. Next, remove the grommets themselves, but we still adhere to the point of view that this is not necessary. Carefully fold the curtains and remove them, so far, to the side.

Now we need to prepare a suitable detergent, there’s nothing to think about to wash curtains with eyelets with ordinary washing powder. It is best to take a gel or shampoo for washing, since liquid products are better washed out of the fabric, leave no residue, and generally are more careful. Of course, liquid funds are not so economically spent, and they are expensive, but for the sake of such a case, you can go broke. You also need to buy a special mesh for washing, since it is simply impossible to wash curtains with eyelets otherwise.

And finally, the most important. To complete the preparation for washing curtains with eyelets, you need to find out what characteristics the fabric from which these curtains are sewn has. Perhaps they can only be washed with extreme caution or not at all? But we will talk about this in the next paragraph.

Hand or machine wash?

How will we wash our curtains, in a washing machine or manually? Everything will depend on what fabric they are sewn from. Velvet and silk curtains with eyelets, as well as curtains made of brocade and moire, should not be washed, it is necessary to entrust their cleaning to specialists. Of course, these fabrics are impractical, but velvet or silk curtains look simply gorgeous. Now about the curtains from other fabrics.

  • The curtains on the grommets from the flock also do not wash, they can only be wiped and vacuum cleaned.
  • Organza curtains can be washed, but they must first be soaked in cold water, and then washed in a washer at a temperature of no higher than 30 degrees.organza curtains with eyelets
  • Cotton and synthetic curtains on the grommets can be washed both manually and in the washing machine with almost no restrictions, but you do not need to set the temperature too high: optimally 60 degrees and spin at 800 rpm.
  • Blackout curtains should be washed in the washing machine, and the spin should be turned off. Firstly, the spin will provoke the appearance of a large number of jams, and secondly, this is not necessary, because such a fabric dries very quickly.
  • Finished linen curtains with eyelets are best washed manually, but machine wash is acceptable. Just keep in mind that the water temperature should not be higher than 40 degrees, spin without restrictions.
  • Painted linen curtains can be washed already at 60 degrees, but it is also preferable to do it manually.
  • Acrylic and rayon curtains can be washed automatically at a temperature of 40 degrees in delicate mode.

If you have chintz curtains with eyelets, then remember that it is better to wash them manually in slightly salted water with the addition of vinegar. This solution will make the pattern on the curtains brighter and more saturated.

Description of washing

car washSo, how to wash the curtains? We put the curtains with grommets in a special mesh for washing and cram into a washing machine. Make sure that the drum of your “home assistant” is roomy enough. Washing machines with a load of 3, 3.5 and even 4 kg will not work. It is better for loading to start at 5.5 kg or more. Next we do the following.

  1. Pour the gel into the powder tray, according to the instructions for the tool.
  2. Choose washing modes and programs, based on the characteristics of the curtain fabric, which we talked about above.
  3. We expose a double rinse, but again decide whether to set or not to spin, based on the characteristics of the fabric from which the curtains are made.
  4. When the program ends, the curtains must be dried.

How to dry such curtains?

There are two ways to dry curtains: you can immediately hang them, but then they can stretch out or first dry on a horizontal surface to a wet state, and then hang them on a curtain. Before spreading the curtains on a horizontal surface, for example, on a folding dryer, it must be covered with terry towels. They quickly absorb excess moisture and the curtains dry faster.

Remember! Do not dry curtains with eyelets close to heat sources such as a battery, heater, fireplace and other things, the fabric may shrink.

So, how to wash the curtains with such a wonderful decoration as eyelets? Everything is very simple, if you know exactly the characteristics of the fabric from which they are sewn. If you have doubts, contact the specialist who sewed these curtains for you, he probably knows well how to care for them. The main thing is not to commit any adventurous actions and everything will be fine!

   

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