You washed your passport, phone or money – what should you do?

washed the phone The first rule when handling a washing machine is to check the pockets of items before putting them in the drum. But if trouble has already happened, and you washed your money, phone or passport along with your things, you will have to take action. Washing in a washing machine is not always fatal for these things, so we decided in this article to give advice on what to do in a situation where you washed things that should not be washed?

The phone has been machine washed – what should I do?

If you were careless and washed your phone in a washing machine, then there is no chance of saving it washed the phone A little. A lot will depend on whether the phone was turned on during washing. If the handset was disconnected, then there is a chance; if it is turned on, then the probability of restoring it after washing tends to zero. Also, a lot will depend on how long the tube was in the water, so if, after starting the wash, you remembered the phone, drained the water and pulled the tube out of the drum, the chances of saving it increase dramatically.

What immediate steps should you take to try to salvage your washed phone?

First you need to turn off the phone (if it was turned on) and remove the battery and SIM card from it.
After this, you need to immediately disassemble the phone as much as possible, remove everything that can be removed and lay out the parts on dry paper napkins.
Soak a piece of bandage in alcohol and wipe all parts (you can pour more alcohol, the water will evaporate faster with it).
We buy a can of Contact 60 spray and carefully treat the wet board on both sides.
We dry wet parts with a hairdryer in a gentle mode, while it is better to keep the device away. Do not allow a jet of hot air to come into direct contact with phone parts.
After the parts are completely dry, you need to treat the board again with Contact 60 spray, then assemble the phone, insert the SIM card and battery.
We wait for a while and then try to turn on the device.

If the device was turned off before placing it in the drum of the washing machine and washing, then after carrying out the above procedures, the chances of salvation are 50/50, and even then only on the condition that you washed your clothes at a temperature of 40 ⁰C. At a water temperature of 60 ⁰There will be guaranteed damage to the liquid crystal touch screen and camera, so restoring the phone after such “water procedures” will simply be unprofitable. If you washed the device while it was on, then the probability of its “survival” is no more than 3%.

Note! Even if after drying and processing the phone does not turn on, do not rush to despair. Take the phone to a good service center, perhaps specialists can still do something with it.

What to do if your passport is machine washed?

the passport was washed in the washing machine The main thing to do if you have washed your passport is to try to restore it yourself. The sooner you take action, the better it will be. This is how you need to act.

Carefully open your passport. You need to try to stick up the maximum number of pages, if some pages don’t stick out, leave it like that, it’s not enough to tear your passport.
Place a sheet of clean white paper between the peeled-off passport pages and place the document in a warm, dry place away from powerful heat sources such as a radiator or heater.
Let the passport sit with the paper for 40-60 minutes, and then try again to paste the remaining pages - it should work. Change the paper.
Place dry paper between all pages of the passport, and then weigh it down on top with three or four thick books. First, the passport must be placed on a hard, flat surface, for example, on a table top.

After drying, carefully inspect the passport. If all the details (stamps, signatures), as well as the inscriptions are in order and can be read, feel free to continue using the passport. If important elements are damaged, everything must be done to replace the passport.

Important! Based on norm 19.16 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, for damage to a passport due to negligence, a person is (may be) subject to a fine from one hundred to $3 or an administrative warning.

What actions need to be taken to replace a damaged passport?

First of all, you need to submit an application for loss/damage to your passport to the territorial division of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation at your place of registration. In this case, the passport renewal period will be 10 days. If you have temporary registration, or you are submitting an application not at the place of registration, you will have to wait 2 months for a new passport.
Take a photo and bring 2 photographs to the FMS unit in accordance with the requirements of 35x45.
If you need a passport urgently, and you cannot wait 10 days or 2 months, then you will need to apply for a temporary passport, which requires 2 more of the same photographs.
You need to pay a state fee of 1500 rubles. and submit the receipt to the FMS.
Other documents may also be required, so it is better to take them with you, namely: military ID, children’s birth certificate, marriage registration/divorce certificate, document confirming registration at the place of residence.

After the expiration of the period allotted by law for the preparation of a new passport, specialists from the territorial division of the FMS are obliged to inform you about the readiness of the document and the need to obtain it. When receiving a new passport, be sure to check all information for typos and inaccuracies.

What to do with washed money?

washed the money Money is quite resistant to various types of influences, because banknotes are made of special paper and special paint is applied to them, so it is not so easy to damage them, even if you wash them in a machine. If you washed paper money in the washing machine, do the following:

Place a sheet of white blank paper on a flat surface.
Take the wet banknote and straighten it onto the sheet.
Place a second sheet of white paper on top and place a thick book on top.
When the banknote has dried a little, change the sheets of paper to dry ones and iron the banknote through these sheets.

After such procedures and thorough drying, the money should be in perfect order.. If paper money is still badly damaged, you can exchange it at Sberbank. To do this, you will have to go to the nearest bank branch and write an application for replacement of banknotes. Bank employees will be required to replace your money.

Note! Banknotes can be exchanged at Sberbank only if they are severely damaged, when about 70% of the information on them cannot be recognized.

washed the money Not the most pleasant option if you forgot small metal money in the pocket of something, and after the item of clothing was washed, the change was not found in your pocket. This can only mean one thing - money is somewhere in the washing machine. How dangerous is it to leave small change in the washing machine and what should you do to get it out? Let us note right away if you know that you washed things with small change and the money remained in the machine, you need to urgently take it out of there, otherwise they may damage machine parts. How to do it?

First you need to look into the washing machine tank, maybe the coins are still there.
Next you need clean the drain filter washing machine. Most often, small change that gets into the drum ends up there.
If there is no money either there or there, it means that it could have remained in the washing machine tub. This is the worst option, in which it is better to call a specialist who will quickly and professionally get them out of there.

In conclusion, we note that if you accidentally washed money, a passport or a phone in the machine, this is, of course, a big nuisance, but in some cases it is not fatal. You can try to solve the problem with “little loss” if you follow the advice of experts and do as they say. Good luck and all the best to you!