How to Clean a Washing Machine in 7 Steps.
When you use the washing machine to wash your clothes, you forget that it too needs a good cleaning.
With all the clothes she washes throughout the year, it looks pretty normal, right? Especially if you have small children at home.
Yes, a machine can be dirty inside!
If you, too, have not cleaned your washing machine for 2 years, this guide should help.
What you need
- White vinegar
- baking soda
- toothbrush
- microfiber cloth
How to do
1. Run an empty machine by choosing the longest program and the highest temperature.
2. Open the hood while the machine is filling and add 1 liter of white vinegar.
3. Then add the equivalent of a cup of baking soda to the drum.
Close the hood and let the machine run for 1 minute. Open the hood again and let the water, white vinegar, and baking soda sit in the machine drum for 1 hour.
4. Meanwhile, remove all the pieces you can and soak them.
In particular, remove removable parts, such as the detergent and fabric softener compartments.
Soak them in white vinegar and then rub them to clean them thoroughly. Dry the parts well and replace them.
Using a toothbrush dipped in white vinegar, clean hard-to-reach places like the laundry tub, around the gasket and in the hood frame:
You can also use this time to clean the front and sides of the machine, but don't close the lid yet!
5. After 1 hour, close the hood of the washing machine and let the program end.
In the meantime, you can clean the top of the washing machine and the buttons with the microfiber cloth and white vinegar.
6. Start over.
Repeat a program at high temperature with 1 liter of white vinegar inside.
This eliminates the last residues that the 1st program could not remove.
7. To clean the drum, once the wash cycle is complete, wipe down the sides and bottom of the drum with white vinegar to remove any remaining dirt.
And now, it's over ! Your washing machine is nickel-chrome :-)
Now you know how to clean a washing machine with baking soda and white vinegar.
A good cleaning of the washing machine with baking soda and vinegar, there is nothing more effective!
As you can see, these explanations are for a top opening machine. But it's the same principle for a window machine.
Once started, your machine may have a safety device that blocks the opening. So you wonder where to put the baking soda and vinegar?
If so, start the machine. Then, open the detergent drawer to pour in the vinegar and then the baking soda.
Then stop the machine and wait 1 hour.
Then restart the machine again. Open the drawer and pour in 1 liter of vinegar.
Finally, let the machine end the program (still empty).
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