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How old is the machine ? Can you post the user manual. I want to know if the word chlorine or bleach is in there.I have a whirlpool 6.5 kg top loading machine.
What was the water temperature you used ?The water setting is kept at "high" level (there are five level very low, low, medium, high, very high) and water temperature is "hot" (there are three levels warm/hot/very hot).
The advantage of a top loader is water contacts over 90% of the tub volume so you want the water higher than the machine provides for a throrough cleanThe machine takes 1.5 hours to complete the entire cycle.
The water level is just a few inches away from the tub. And the cycle is also quite vigorous.
You want the water level touching the gasket not few inches lower. To do that requires you to manually fill water to the top or close to it.
Don't use the tub clean cyle. We will make our own. We will use a normal cycle. It only needs to run 10-15 minutes to stir things around then stop it.
Can that be done with water touching the gasket and an agitate without flooding your room ?
Then the soak begins.
Here it can go two ways as I don't know which way is better in terms of dislodging the most debris but the first is less work.
1) Let it soak for 12 hours, two rinses and a spin.
OR
2) Let it soak for an hour, fish out whatever debris comes using a sieve, turn it on for ten minutes, stop,
3) Repeat step 2) three times . The idea is to see whether the debris coming out reduces.
So total time taken to complete is 0:10 agitate + 1h soak + fish + 0:10 agitate + 1h soak + fish + 0:10 agitate + 1h soak + fish + 0:10 agitate + 1h soak + fish = 4h40m
4) Two rinses and a spin.
Different strategies.
No product instructions will tell you this because you will not buy their product thinking so much work. Instead they try to sell you easy fix which does not do much if anything for cleaning.
Not enough for a top loader full of water. Needs to be 200gm minimum possibly twice as much if the volume is 60L. But 200gm is a good place to start.I had used about 75g of the Vanish powder. Or about 1.5 scoop provided in the packet.
Depends how much comes out and whether it reduces or not. Otherwise you have to do it again with another 200gm until it does reduce.
Vanish is a diluted product. 25-50% percarbonate. Ideally you would be using the labogens which for the same weight delivers 2 - 4x the punch.
Only mentioned Vanish to get people started due to easy availability.
You want to increase the splash as much as possible not reduce it. More splash means hits more areas with product where the buildup is.You idea was great for including the towels during cleaning cycle. It actually REDUCES the water splash in top loading machine.
That is the intent in the front loader, seeems it has the opposite effect in a top loader.
If you switch it off then no beep.To the make the process better i intentionally paused the machine for 30 mins (although it causes the machine to emit beep every 30 seconds or so. Like a UPS which is hell irritating). So that the dirt and other Grimes can have enough time to soak.
The best way to clean a top loader is to dissasemble it and scrub the parts clean. If you can't do that or don't want to pay some one else to do it then you have to do the above.
You could alternate each month.Will share the pictures of the inside of tub later today. The water is quite hard in my area. So will have to use descaler too later.
Descaling indirectly helps by reducing scale which would otherwise attract other residues. We are only going after the residue here.
No chance of attaching a water softener ? the ones that you recharge with salt. Will be easier on the machine and require less detergent in regular washing.
Depends how hard your water is. If its over 500ppm CaCO3 then a softener is better.
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