Yeah for bicarb!

Use 127 for bicarb.
Bung a whole pile of it in the washing machine and run it on the hot cycle. It gets rid of the nasty smell that had been creeping into our washing. We thought that maybe our machine was having mechanical issues of some sort or there was water trapped and lying stagnant. However a read through a time to be greener book gave us two heads up (Thanks Waterstones for a fly read.). The first was that liquid detergent is a bit of a con...............use a lot less than is stated as the residue gets into the clothes and lies in the machine and second was the one about flushing out the whole system with the bicarb. And it worked!
Unplug the Christmas Machine has arrived. Will get back to you!