🏡 Better Homes Front load washer guys…

[Jimy Bilmo]

Make sure you’re cleaning the front seal, draining your discharge tube at the bottom and then pulling the filter out to clean. I’ve been pretty consistent every few months with this. But recently it started to stank. Cleaned everything again and picked up these tablets on Amazon. If your washer has a “tub clean” setting, throw the tablet in the drum, NOT the tray. Cleans deep inside pump, valve, tub, drum, agitator, filter and hose, truly works wonders. Just drained it again from the hose and after one tab and there is zero stench. So highly recommend and will shorten my cleaning and tablet tub clean to every one month.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C91Q86I/?tag=tcg21-20

Note: it will work on top load washer as well, but they aren’t as common for these issues as front load washers.

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[DanJ]

Interesting. I leave the door open so the seal doesn’t get funky and try to clean that filter out every other month or so. Never noticed much smell, but the first bit of water that comes out on a wash cycle does smell. Will try the tabs, I use afresh in my dish washer and garbage disposal also.

 

[GTPpower]

We just leave the door open.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

Yup, I leave the door open as much as I can, until a kid slams it shut ?

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

Top load poverty throw out your back unloading laundry from washer checking in.

 

[GTPpower]

Fwiw, both my wife and I agree that we will never buy another front load.

 

[Fish]

Top load poverty throw out your back unloading laundry from washer checking in.

Same but we bought ours last year. LG top loader and dryer combo from Costco. It recommends doing the tablet cleaning once a month and since I did set up the smart shit on it, will tell you when it’s recommended.

 

[DanJ]

Ours came with our house. Not sure on my preference.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

We didn’t have them when we moved in. Bought Maytag commercial top load stuff with all manual controls. I just wanted to be boomer and no electronics that crap out without replacement parts 5 years down the road.

 

[Pewter-Camaro]

Top load poverty throw out your back unloading laundry from washer checking in.

I like the ancient turn the mechanical knob top load washer and basic bitch old driers. If it does break it’s cheap to fix because there are no one off No stupid ass circuit boards and special parts in them.

 

[Fish]

I’m sure if my shit breaks, I’ll just have Lord Tin Foilhat figure out how to install a raspberry pi and play doom while my shit gets washed. ?

 

[radioguy6]

I just send it with my 1981 all mechanical Maytag manual controls built to outlast every new moldy planned obsolescence throwaway junk made today.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

The extra electronics and "smarts" are what fuck up everything.

gain convenience, lose reliability.

 

[blakbearddelite]

I get yelled at if I ever close the washer door when it's not in operation.

 

[DanJ]

I just send it with my 1981 all mechanical Maytag manual controls built to outlast every new moldy planned obsolescence throwaway junk made today.

Back when they were made in Galesburg. We’ve got some LG front loads with wifi that I don’t use because I typically do laundry when I’m home, so knowing what it’s doing from my phone is pointless. They’ll be replaced with something far less smart.

 

[Fish]

So do we but we have a bad habit of waiting to do laundry so when you are trying to be efficient with the swapping of loads it’s nice to get that hey switch your shit notification. Lol.

 

[DanJ]

Ours is so loud it’s hard to ignore. I’m also a mad man about laundry. Kid will leak and piss his sleep suit when he gets up at 7:30. If I’m doing laundry I’ll throw all the kids stuff in with whatever I have. That stuff will be dry, folded and put away before he goes down for his nap at 11:30.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Make sure you’re cleaning the front seal, draining your discharge tube at the bottom and then pulling the filter out to clean. I’ve been pretty consistent every few months with this. But recently it started to stank. Cleaned everything again and picked up these tablets on Amazon. If your washer has a “tub clean” setting, throw the tablet in the drum, NOT the tray. Cleans deep inside pump, valve, tub, drum, agitator, filter and hose, truly works wonders. Just drained it again from the hose and after one tab and there is zero stench. So highly recommend and will shorten my cleaning and tablet tub clean to every one month.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C91Q86I/?tag=tcg21-20

Note: it will work on top load washer as well, but they aren’t as common for these issues as front load washers.

Get a top loader and stop supporting this junk design.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

Get a top loader and stop supporting this junk design.

Had to stack, otherwise I would have.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Had to stack, otherwise I would have.

 

[smug]

I have never cleaned the filter on our front loader. Never have noticed s stink either. I just ran an afresh tablet last week because I found one in the cabinet ??‍

 

[Dan00Hawk]

I run some vinegar in ours every once in awhile. Always leave door open a bit. Never used any cleansing tablets. I clean out the filter and discharge tube about once per year.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

I like the ancient turn the mechanical knob top load washer and basic bitch old driers. If it does break it’s cheap to fix because there are no one off No stupid ass circuit boards and special parts in them.

They break too. A cheap 5¢ pot metal part took out my no frills Maytag dryer. Couldn’t get just that part, needed a whole motor. Of course they make it so you break the fan blades when replacing it, so new fan too.

Parts cost me $150 for a $375 gas dryer ?

Oh, and it broke 4 days out of warranty, and Maytag wouldn’t do shit.

Getting LG or Samsung next. My LG fridge has been golden, and my Samsung microwave too.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

They break too. A cheap 5¢ pot metal part took out my no frills Maytag dryer. Couldn’t get just that part, needed a whole motor. Of course they make it so you break the fan blades when replacing it, so new fan too.

Parts cost me $150 for a $375 gas dryer ?

Oh, and it broke 4 days out of warranty, and Maytag wouldn’t do shit.

Getting LG or Samsung next. My LG fridge has been golden, and my Samsung microwave too.

May I suggest going full old school?

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

May I suggest going full old school?

Girlfriend does that with her unmentionables. Sometimes the cats help.