🏡 Better Homes Front load washer guys…

[torquelover]

After having two different front loaders in the last two houses I’m glad to be back into a (HE) top loader.

I still leave the lid open between loads. Old habits die hard.

 

[01Cobra]

Top load washer here. It just works.

 

[blue-sun]

I had to clean the filter out about 6 months ago, there were candy bar (fun sized) wrappers and tons of hair in the filter. This thread made me pop it open and clean it out again, as maintenance prior to starting a load.

 

[DanJ]

Ran the affresh tab on the tub clean cycle yesterday evening, forgot about it and didn’t open the door until lunch today. Whole machine actually smelled worse. Ran a second tab and wiped out the seal and drained the tube down by the filter and it seems to be better now.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

Ran the affresh tab on the tub clean cycle yesterday evening, forgot about it and didn’t open the door until lunch today. Whole machine actually smelled worse. Ran a second tab and wiped out the seal and drained the tube down by the filter and it seems to be better now.

Whoopsies

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

I ran the garbage disposal one, worked nicely.

I bought the dishwasher one too, but the moment that fucker is emptied, it immediately is reloaded. Going to have to play with the timing to run this.

 

[DanJ]

My washing machine never stinks, but the first bit of water that comes out when you run a load does. The first tab seemed to have broken some of that yuck loose and redistributed it.

The garbage disposal tabs are very satisfying, but I’ve found you still have to pull the rubber splash thing and clean the muck off that.

I think the dish washer tabs can be ran with dishes in there. I usually empty the dishwasher and then throw the tab in a run it immediately after or I have the same problem here.

 

[Z28Camaro]

Ran the affresh tab on the tub clean cycle yesterday evening, forgot about it and didn’t open the door until lunch today. Whole machine actually smelled worse. Ran a second tab and wiped out the seal and drained the tube down by the filter and it seems to be better now.

Save money and just dump a cup of citric acid and a half cup of baking soda in there. If the stink comes back so quickly then it’s not getting properly cleaned.

 

[Fish]

You guys have garbage disposals?

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

You guys have garbage disposals?

Everything is a garbage disposal if you're brave enough.

 

[DanJ]

You guys have garbage disposals?

City sewer.

 

[DanJ]

Decided to poke around behind my dryer and found out the vent was held on by hopes and dreams, so that was cool. Got a 4” hose clamp and pulled this out of the first bend. It’s in the unfinished part of my basement and goes straight out the wall. Will take it off later and blow it out with a leaf blower.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

Decided to poke around behind my dryer and found out the vent was held on by hopes and dreams, so that was cool. Got a 4” hose clamp and pulled this out of the first bend. It’s in the unfinished part of my basement and goes straight out the wall. Will take it off later and blow it out with a leaf blower.

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Be brave and run the leaf blower the opposite way into the dryer. It's a mess, but worth it.

 

[DanJ]

I can take the whole vent tube between the dryer and the exterior wall off.

 

[DanJ]

Be brave and run the leaf blower the opposite way into the dryer. It's a mess, but worth it.

I see. So to blow out the entire route between the lint trap and the rear vent.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

I see. So to blow out the entire route between the lint trap and the rear vent.

Yup. I blow it both ways to be sure. But really throws lint that’s been trapped in the dryer.

 

[DanJ]

Wonder how a shop vac and a crevice tool would do. That sounds like a mess blowing it.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

Wonder how a shop vac and a crevice tool would do. That sounds like a mess blowing it.

Sounds like you’re a planner. I had to use a vac to clean it up, so not sure how much time is saved using the shop vac proactively as you might blow it out with the blower.

 

[Fish]

Dont remember if I posted a pic, but we had our vents all cleaned last year and that included the dryer vent. WOAH NELLY!!

Mine spans from the front to the back of the house so thats fun.

 

[DanJ]

my in laws are in there garage but it goes all the way through their attic. My whole dryer vent is maybe 8 feet long.