In the modern home appliances it has a significant place and performs a lot of work, facilitating the lives of modern women, and men too. Surely only our grandmothers remember that such washing and boiling bed linen or endless diapers soaking in a basin. Washing machines today do all that work and need in a simple, but full-time care for themselves. Periodically, it is necessary to clean the washing machine from dirt.
Content
- Cleaning tray
- Rubber sleeve and seals
- Elimination of mold, mildew and odor
- input filter
- The use of folk remedies
- Sludge removal from the drum
- Rinsing filter
- accident prevention
Cleaning tray
From the visible parts of primarily purified tray into which are poured and backfilled with various detergents. Additionally, use detergents do not need them and so there remains enough. Take off the tray and thoroughly washed with running water. You can use an old toothbrush to clean up adhering to the walls of the powder. You can read the time in the instructions to properly disconnect the tray.
Rubber sleeve and seals
Rubber sleeve hatch machine-gun after every wash you must wipe drySo that no mold and microbes. If mold still formedThen it can be cleaned with a cloth and a solution of copper sulphate, diluted with water, vinegar or whiteness. You can pour a bit of money in the slot machine cuff, give it to stand for several hours, and then all rinse with warm water and wipe dry. It should be remembered that all the work with aggressive cleaning agents should be carried out in rubber gloves and medical mask.
Rubber seals machine-gun also accumulate dirt and fungus. To remove them is sufficient to use window cleaners or shells.
Elimination of mold, mildew and odor
Humidity and heat in the bathroom - a favorable environment for the growth of mold, which is formed in the washing machine. In view of the fact that so many housewives wash at a lower temperature, mold spores are actively multiplying. They are killed only at a temperature above 60 degrees Celsius.
For to get rid of mold, mildew and odor from the washing machine, you must:
- pour into the tray potent powder detergent, for example, white or means for toilets Domestos, the laundry and run at a temperature above 60 degrees;
- After heating the water in the tank to a maximum necessary to put laundry pause and wait an hour or more;
- then continue washing;
- during the rinse pour into the tray 200 ml of vinegar.
Well several times a month to wash clothes at a high temperature.
If the mold formed on the other external parts washing machine: the drain hose, tray powder for rubber seals, then it can be cleaned with an old toothbrush dipped in any detergent facility. Then the special means of the fungus to treat these places.
To prevent the formation of mold in the bathroom and the washing machine should not forget to ventilate bathroom, leave the porthole door open to dry after each wash, do not keep long in wet drum underwear.
input filter
If there were such characteristic features as loud buzzing machine with water flooding, an increase in the washing time, a weak pressure when entering the water, you should check whether the input filter is not clogged. It is a mesh in place of connection of the inlet hose. It is necessary to unscrew the hose, remove the mesh pliers, toothbrush to gently clean the dirt and rinse with running water. Then put the filter back in place and screw the hose.
The use of folk remedies
From the inside of the washing machine needs to be cleaned drum, the internal surface of the tank, the pulley, the heating element. During operation of the washing machine is formed therein limescale, which can lead to failure of the engine, the heater, PETN or blown fuse. scale formation facilitates hard water. Washing machines due to dirt and limescale can quickly fail.
Manufacturers recommend using special tools when washing, such as Calgon, which soften the water. But it turned out that some of the chemicals in their composition harm internal parts of the machine. experts recommend to install special filters to improve the flow of water composition.
At home, you can clean the drum of the washing machine and other interior parts with the help of available tools as citric acid, white, acetic acid, soda. In case of heavy pollution and the formation of scale is necessary to disassemble the machine and clean the interior manually or change defective parts.
Of professional tools performed well Frisch activ, developed by German specialists. The advantages include:
- economical consumption;
- nice smell;
- It does not harm parts of the washing machine;
- high efficiency.
If necessary, it can be used once a week, one container of 250 ml is enough for 10 times.
Sludge removal from the drum
Depending on what is dirty clothes or linen, which is washed in a machine, drum cleaning is better to use a particular means or a combination thereof.
For example, if you frequently wash work clothes with traces of oil, grease, fuel oil, Should be used soda + vinegar + water cleaning machine machine dirt.
If formed plaque after using low-quality laundry detergentThat are poorly soluble in water, then used a mixture of soda, vinegar and citric acid.
If you want to get rid of moldWhich is formed after washing at low temperatures or in the fast mode is used soda + + bluestone nonaggressive detergent.
From scalingWhich is formed from hard water on metal elements, helps the vinegar.
All these funds should be used correctly in order to effectively clean the washing machine drum. Citric acid, vinegar, whiteness is poured into the drum, then washing program selected hour, can be more than an hour at a temperature above 60 C. After completion of the program to remove any remaining funds from the drum and the machine is started, double rinse tank.
Baking soda is used as follows: poured onto a sponge or cloth and manually scour drum wall. wall of the drum it is desirable to dampen. When the mud starts to deviate, and are interrupted cleaning 30 minutes to as long as soda come into contact with the dirt. Then scour any remaining dirt.
Along with the advantages, improvised means cleaning machine drum has some drawbacks. For example, chlorine bleach along with the dirt can corrode the rubber parts of the machine. Therefore, the cleaning should not produce more than 1 time per year.
It should use a protective mask, as whiteness evaporates harmful substances.
Acetic acid also damages the rubber parts of the machine, and it is difficult to wash out of the tank and the drum. As for baking soda, its main drawback - it is a manual application.
Rinsing filter
After all the procedures for cleaning the washing machine from dirt, mold, mildew, odor to clean the filter. It needs to be cleaned as often as possible.
Typically, the filter is located at the bottom of the machine on the front panel underneath the plastic cover. He gets out of the hole, in the process can politsya remaining water after washing, it is necessary to be ready for it. Settle on the filter hair, fibers, feathers and other debris. It should be clean, rinse under running water, if there is mucus, it is also clean with a sponge and detergent.
With the flashlight is desirable to look into the hole and removed therefrom entire accumulated debris rinsed hole itself. Inside the pump vanes seen, they can be wound threads, they must be removed. Then screw the filter into place. It is advisable to do this twice a month.
accident prevention
We should not forget about safety when working with power tools and aggressive detergents. All work is performed at the outlet of the wire off the washing machine with rubber gloves and a protective mask.
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