Comments on: Holes in washing (laundry)

By: problem solved

problem solved — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:37:16 +0000

comment #177 on March 9th is exactly right! This is the same as my comment on Nov 28th 2008 comment #97. Try and you will see.

By: lulu

lulu — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:16:32 +0000

I have found the answer after ten years of this. We have a stone island and it hits right where my jean snap is located and if I ever so slightly rub against the island with the shirt between the metal button and the stone island on the other side of the material it will rip. My husband and one daughter are taller and do not hit at this position and the other children are younger and that is the reason that I alone have this problem. Believe me, I have made it my life’s work to experiment and figure this out for ten years. Don’t know why I did not think of this.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:54:52 +0000

So glad to hear so many of you out there are experiencing the same problem with small holes at the front of t-shirts.
I thought i was going mad,at first i blamed the washing machine
like many others i have been using a miele washing machine ive tried washing on various cycles all still getting holes and i bought
a mesh wash bag still getting holes in the front! ive come to the
conclusion it must be the friction with the holes always being in the exact location and another factor is i have granite worktops.

By: Dan Peter

Dan Peter — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:44:03 +0000

just a guess but what if you have a T shirt on, go take a leak and when doing up your belt, pinch it in the belt buckle then pull it out and it snags. Then it goes through the wash, works through the cycles in the machine and your snag becomes a hole.

By: jeff

jeff — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:32:08 +0000

just wanted to give my insight regarding this problem.

i too have had the issue with the holes in the t-shirts. i posted a comment previously in this thread describing the problem, but basically it’s much the same as what others have been experiencing – small holes that appear near the bottom center of the shirt. i realized that it couldn’t be the detergent, bugs, or the washing machine, because as others have pointed out, the holes would appear in other garments and randomly throughout the garments.

so i started to think of what i could be doing that would be creating friction or stress on these shirts, always in the same place – and i think i have finally figured it out. i have been doing bodybuilding for many years, and in some of the exercises the dumbells or barbell rubs on the front bottom of my shirt. as i investigated the possibility that this could be the source of the stress that was creating the holes, i realized that all of the t-shirts that i have worked out in have these holes, and all of the t-shirts that i have *never* workout in have *zero* holes.

now i no longer do the exercises that caused the extreme rubbing on my shirt – and guess what? no more holes…

so it’s just a matter of carefully analyzing your activities and figuring out the source of stress that is creating the wear and subsequent holes in these garments. good luck!