Fabric Softener
June 27th, 2009
Question: Why is the fabric softener leaking out of the control panel of my washing machine?
I've got a 10 year old washer. For the last few years, when I use the fabric softener dispense, I'm finding gunked up softener WAY up under the control box-thing-y at the top! HOW the heck is it getting up there? Is there any way to get it out of there for good? How can I stop this from happening?
Answer: Water Splashing the fabric softener around?
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Pets fabric can cause extensive damage to the house, clothing, carpets, curtains and other soft furnishing fabrics. Preventing moths and beetles from damaging fabrics such as wool, silk and fur is easy once you learn to recognize and measures you can take to protect your home.
Carpet beetle larvae
While adult carpet beetles feed on pollen and nectar of flowers instead of fabric, carpet feeding beetle larvae on natural textiles that contain a protein called keratin. These include textiles such as wool, fur, silk and leather, and these larvae also feed on human hair, feathers, binders, bone and other insects dead. Fabrics made from plants such as flax and cotton are generally safe carpet beetle larvae, provided they are clean.
Trogoderma larvae often chew holes in textiles and fabrics. Their preferred habitat is dark, undisturbed areas, but often they travel slowly between different rooms in a house, causing extensive damage to tissues in different parts over several years if they are not detected.
Clothes Moth Larvae
Clothing feed the larvae of moths on the hair, fur, wool and feathers. Sometimes they will also feed on leather, mohair, silk and textile related. As for carpet beetle larvae, these insects feed on protein keratin that these tissues contain. Unlike the larvae of carpet beetles, moth larvae do not relocate to new areas, instead they feed in the area where the eggs to hatch they spin a cocoon for hatching to adulthood.
Clothes moth larvae prefer to feed in areas where they are left intact for long periods of time such as in sections of carpet underneath the furniture or in containers which are used to store clothing. Adult clothes moths do not feed on textiles, but they will lay between 100 and 300 eggs in places where the larvae that hatch will have access to abundant food.
Pests other tissue
More rarely, insects such as silverfish, crickets, cockroaches and termites May feed on fabrics.
- Silverfish feed on materials containing starch, May and feed on starched fabric.
- Crickets feed on vegetable matter, and tissue damage in May if they are stained with sweat or food.
- Cockroaches eat a wide variety of foods, in May and feed wool and hair, especially if they are stained with food.
- Termites feed on materials containing cellulose, and May feed on fabrics like cotton and linen which are vegetable origin.
Treat and prevent infestations
The most difficult aspect of treating fabric pest infestations is to locate the infested area. Often the first signs of infestation are noticed that when the adult moths or carpet beetles clothes out of their larval nests. Adult carpet beetles are very small around one sixteenth of an inch long and are usually black or mottled with red, white or gray. Adult moth is about half an inch long and tan colored with four wings. They are very weak flyers, and avoid light.
In the case of two carpet beetles and moths, the emergence of adults usually means that unless an infestation is present. Locating infestations requires carefully check the areas where the tissues are stored in cupboards and drawers under the furniture was not moved for several months or years, and under carpets and rugs.
Once the infestation has been located (keep in mind there may have more of an infestation, and all sources must be found to protect against infestations future) in the next step is the removal of the damaged equipment. All tissues at the site must be cleaned according to instructions manufacturer, or discarded. Both carpet beetles and clothes moth larvae can be killed by washing with hot water or cleaning Dry.
Pesticides can be used to treat cracks and crevices to prevent future infestations. However, most pesticides household use that are safe to use on fabrics do not provide that protection by about six months against parasites.
Vacuum regularly will go a long way to prevent re-infection with both Trogoderma and clothes moth larvae. Area rugs should be vacuumed of both sides, and rotate or reorganized periodically. Heavy items of furniture should also be reorganized from time to time to exposing new areas of carpet and prevent the creation of habitats dark and quiet as pests for fabric.
Clothing and other textiles must be stored in packages, containers tightly closed. Mothballs and other repellents can be added to containers, but beware that they are not allowed to touch any plastic parts in the shape of balls in May soften and melt the plastic, causing them to stick tissues.
Small items such as toys and ornaments that can not be washed can be placed in the freezer to kill both larvae and eggs. These should be stored in the freezer for a week to ensure that all eggs are killed.
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