Rust coloured towels and toilet paper

Lilliputians · Veteran Member

Rust coloured towels and toilet paper

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Thats a relief Lilliputians! I thought you were going to say your toilet paper was stained!!

Its not for nothing that people wear brown and khaki in the bush! Towels and sheets and clothes all end up with the same tint! Soaking in nappisan helped a bit but they seem to be permanently stained.

The caravan has a permanent stain (Battle scars) on some of its fixtures too. As you say, on, on...

Lilliputians · Veteran Member

Yes, perhaps I should have explained a little better! We're home now in Mornington waiting for Target to have a household sale, next trip will be along the Murray (where we had some lovely free stops)sometime in mid Nov - mid Dec when it gets a bit warmer, anyone interested...on on

cannylass · Senior Member

I have brown sheets, and dark towels for that reason

villatranquilla · Guru

I bought all black undies, brown towels and tea towels and use brown rubber backed bath mats for floor mats -for caravan use - all can be washed without fear of staining.

cannylass · Senior Member

I have heard there is some nice free stop overs there but never been maybe one day we will get there smile

bill12 · Guru

Do your tyres have skid marks? You always know the vehicles that go across the more remote loctions by the colour of them. Bulldust is like talcom powder, and can get into sealed containers.After a few days, you get used to being a little dirty. Bill

Boroma577 · Guru

Yep, I have purple sheets and navy blue towels and this last time I added a very dense and colourful doona cover with lots of teracotta colour to it.

golivers travels · Guru

Can relate to all this. I always wondered at the ladies wearing white shorts, 3/4 pants and white undies on the line. They must never leave the black top or use lots of nappy san. We are still cleaning up the red dust out of our van since our trip up north, seems to appear miraculously even after i thought I did a thorough clean. I remember the first loads of washing I did in the twin tub washing machine I bought after 7 months on the road........the water was red, red, red! Glenda.

blaze · Guru

I have had the dust come out of my steel rims in the join 2 years after my last trip into the red centre
cheers
blaze

gold dandelion · Senior Member

you can try putting masking tape on the seals and cupboard doors and trunks. helps ease the problem, used to do it when woolclassing around Wittenoom, and the Pilbara when there was sheep in the area and also a town there.

jimricho · Guru

I have a tent type camper trailer that I used on tag-alongs before I bought the Goldstream. On its first trip to the Kimberley ten years ago the red dust penetrated the canvas, never to be removed. It's a hot dipped galvanised trailer and the red dust has penetrated the gal and cannot be removed either.

I have heard that it's best to wash towels, clothes etc in cold water but I suspect this may be a furphy.

Rip and Rosie · Guru

we use bath mats on the van floor as well, simply easier to wash.

Many years back- when I was young and gorgeous- I was camping through the centre with a few mates, and I bought a roll on insect repellant for ease of storing in the backpack.

First time I used it, 10 minutes later the red dust had settled and I had what looked like traditional art up my legs and down my arms.

Not a good look

Lilliputians · Veteran Member

I did something similar, put sun screen on my legs and after walking around Uluru had picked up the best tan ever!