Clothes Washer Clean up!
May. 21st, 2017 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gem2niki In the past year, I've been running into dark residues in the washer that would leave stains. They were more noticeable on towels. I thought it was from the clothes because looking at the washer, it looked pretty clean. That is...until I did further research and found out how washers are built. The residues were molds, mildew, grimes from built up moisture that didn't get properly dried out nor washed off from a regular washer cleanup using bleach. They were growing on the outside of the inner tube and the plastic tank. Watching youtube videos of people opening their dryer for the first time, it seemed less complicated to disassemble it (hahaha yea right). Every step that seemed easy on the videos, we faced with great difficulties. Finally, we were able to take part the washer. It was horrifying to see what was behind the tube x_x
My dad worked on cleaning the plastic tank while i cleaned up the inner tube. They were like those cheese grate, so they were chipping away the scrubbing tools XD Fortunately, these were not rust but built up mold and came off as we scrubbed them. After hours (?) in the shade with a 90F weather in San Jose, with the smell of chlorine, we were finally done with the cleaning! Everything looked about new and white!
The next challenge was putting them back together. Earlier we had diffculty removing the inner tube. We ended up using this method on youtube instead of having to buy a 130 buck tool to remove it. In this case, the inner tube wouldn't go further down into the shaft. After some trials, I decided to use my own weight to push it down, by going inside the tube and it did the trick! We were finally able to put the rest of the parts together and now we have a just as new washer! *sparkles sparkles*
We washed a batch of towels and it seemed to work fine and no residue behind!
Lesson:
-Leave washer door after use to let it dry out
-Regularly clean the washer with chlorine
-Use less detergent because our machine is "HE"
My dad worked on cleaning the plastic tank while i cleaned up the inner tube. They were like those cheese grate, so they were chipping away the scrubbing tools XD Fortunately, these were not rust but built up mold and came off as we scrubbed them. After hours (?) in the shade with a 90F weather in San Jose, with the smell of chlorine, we were finally done with the cleaning! Everything looked about new and white!
The next challenge was putting them back together. Earlier we had diffculty removing the inner tube. We ended up using this method on youtube instead of having to buy a 130 buck tool to remove it. In this case, the inner tube wouldn't go further down into the shaft. After some trials, I decided to use my own weight to push it down, by going inside the tube and it did the trick! We were finally able to put the rest of the parts together and now we have a just as new washer! *sparkles sparkles*
We washed a batch of towels and it seemed to work fine and no residue behind!
Lesson:
-Leave washer door after use to let it dry out
-Regularly clean the washer with chlorine
-Use less detergent because our machine is "HE"