My washing machine is smelly. What can I do about that?
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run it through a cycle without any clothes and put in a 1/2 cup of pine cleaner or bleach- it will get rid of the odor.
Other answers:
Get your nose out of there now!
Get your nose out of there now!
leave it open and may be water rinse with some lime lavender
Use Dettol
take a dump in it
Wash it down with bleach, and use Febreeze with odor control. Running a load of laundry.
try using some pinesol when you wash cloths
Wash one cycle with a little bit of clothes that you don't care about and put a boatload of bleach. That should kill all the yucky bacteria you got in the washer. The damp smell is from mildew buildup, maybe you should also have it checked by a professional.
Run it through with vinegar and water.
put it thru a wash with some bleach in the water, no clothes
go to comet, buy a new one, i hear those new Bosch ones are quite fancy!!
use a reputable conditioner or do a complete wash with nothing in the machine
Purchace a bottle of concentrated lemon juice. Pour it into the bleach funnel (if one) otherwise pour into the drum itself. Run a cycle without any clothes. (Hot water).
Once the cycle finishes, open the lid and allow it to dry. (The current smell will be gone, and as long as you keep the lid open at least 24 hours after doing laundry it will not return.
The oder is caused by bacteria forming in the warm moist enviorment inside the machine wich is trapped when you close the lid after removing the clothes. (it is preventable)
Try running a wash with bleach in the machine - should clear the smell. The smell is probably caused by leaving washing in the machine too long after it's finished. Take it out immediately when the wash has finished and leave the door slightly open to dry the machine's insides.
throw it out. if it smells, what must your clothes smell like. you smelly thing :-)
Try running it with 1/2 cup of Vinegar instead of soap (no clothes of course!) This should take care of the odor but you might need to run it one or two more times with water only.
Good luck!
Turn off the water at the mains, un plug the pipes from the wall and the machine and pour some lime scale cleaner in them or vinegar and leave to soak for a while then rinse thenm out
Then without putting any clothes in the machine put a washing tablet and some vinegar in your trays as well as a lemon cut in two in the tumbler part. Run a full session on hot and bingo you'll have cleaned out all limescale, gunk and it will smell lemon fresh for ages!!
you have to wash it thoroughly after every use.so maintain these things to avoid smell
Run it through a cycle empty, no clothes, with bleach.... Buy some liquid fabric softener ( downy) and use that in a wash, there are many different fragrance's to chose from, and your clothes will smell fresh and clean also, and no static cling....
You should put in on a very hot wash with just soap in it!
is your machine connected directly underneath your sink?
if yes then you may be draining too much dirt/food waste down your sink which is flowing down your pipe into your washing machine and becoming rotten in your machine, you need to flush out your machine with anti-bacteria or something strong to kill off anything that grown down there and use something in your sink plug to stop food waste from draining away and only let water through
stop using it as a latrine
Run the washer with hot water and an entire bottle of bleach. Use the highest water setting, ie: largest load size, and let it run the entire cycle. This should kill the bacteria/mildew/mold in the washer. I did this the first time and never had a problem again. When done washing clothes you should leave the washer lid open so air can get in and dry out the washer. Good Luck!!
look at your pipes in behind where the water drains my mum had the same problem and it was fitted wrong the pipe where the dirty water drains wasnt the right one it needs to be 1 where the water cant come back down or your just washing your clothes time and time again with the dirty water
ok here's the reason! Back in frankfurter where they built the washer, they never told you how or what actually "TURNS" the tub as is cycles during a wash. What is happening is that at this particular factory they do not install standard electrical motors in these machines! What they do instead, is make a bit extra room for the machine OPERATOR to fit in it! Yes indeed these lil german dwarfs are packed with enough bratwurst and beer to make it to your house and after a while of living inside the unit they tend to smell a bit if they havent bathed. They also sneak out of the washer at night and eat and do all the neccessary things you need to do, (use the bathroom , etc) so this is why the german washers last so long! The motors never break for many many years! and the Operators work cheap, happy enough to make it to the USA and get out once in awhile..!!