Techniques- More fibre washing

I have been watching a thread called "No more lingerie bag scouring for me" in the fibre preparation group on Ravelry. The point of the thread is fairly obvious from the title, it discusses how someone tried washing with free fleece and got great results. As I was on my last chunk of fleece I thought I would give it a go.

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First up spread the fleece out in the bath tub. I still did it in chunks, but reasonably large ones compared to what I would put in a bag.

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Set the shower to cold.

Take a deep breath and spray that fleece!

Remember to breathe!

Lot of nastiness washed away, when the water ran clear I gave it a squeeze and scooped it into a bucket while I did the next bit of fleece.
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Once it was all well rinsed and running clear I did a hot wash cycle (soap, no soap, vinegar and conditioner) using the entire tub.

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It worked really really well!
I have to agree with the original thread poster that it is the cleanest of all my washes, the tips are still a little stuck together, but I find that helpful for carding/combing anyway and the bulk of the fleece is lovely and white. There was no felting at all!
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I will definitely be using this method again as I have found myself with a extra fleece that needs cleaning. It seems to clean better and I can get more done faster using the shower method than using buckets. Obviously it would probably be a bad idea for delicate fibres, those that felt easily, but for this fairly robust Suffolk it seems to work out great.
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I do have a problem with getting it dry though, the British autumn has set in with a lot of rain.