Washing Machine Prevention

Everyone knows such a word as prevention, and surely everyone knows its meaning. But not everyone in practice takes certain measures to secure a thing. For example, the prevention of a washing machine - how often do you spend it and do you spend it at all? In this article, we will explain why and how to correctly carry out preventive measures.

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Why do I need to clean the washing machine?

Have you ever thought about this question: what is contained in the water that is supplied through our pipelines? Of course - part is in the mud. But this concept is quite extensive, and a huge part of the substances that are implied by this concept is absolutely safe - both for household appliances and for people.

The greatest danger to household appliances that works with water is 2 things - this is lime and salt. They have a habit of settling on mechanisms and nodes, thereby causing damage to equipment that cannot be fixed.

Important! Lime, when it settles on a heating element that has direct contact with tap water, builds up on it. As a result, the heater heats itself and over time simply burns out.

And then what to do? Repair is, again, just a temporary solution to the issue. In addition, the heater is just one element that is directly prone to plaque overgrowth. By and large, it settles on absolutely all internal elements and surfaces that have close contact with water. The same negative effect on all the inside of the washing machine is exerted by salts, which are contained in water in large quantities.

Here, in order to protect important elements of the equipment from such a phenomenon, the prevention of the washing machine is needed.

Important! The most effective way - when connecting equipment or at the beginning of operation to put good water filter.

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The elimination of limescale

There are 2 options for solving the designated question, how to eliminate plaque in the washing machine, which is the main cause of most breakdowns:

• chemicals recommended by manufacturers such as “Kalgon”;
• alternative methods that are no less popular than recommended cleaning products.

We will talk about them in more detail.

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Calgon and all its like substances

These funds do an excellent job with a fairly small amount of limescale, but they will not be able to help against chronic pollution of this type. Only if you regularly use them can a result appear, in fact, on which all manufacturers expect.

Frankly, they knowingly make a weak remedy, which the person who takes care of his favorite household appliances will acquire from year to year. That is, the very prevention of the washing machine will be carried out, which means that there is essentially no deception. The principle of their effect is always the same - it is based on the principle of dissolving limescale with a weak acid solution.

Important! Do not count on the fact that with their help you will achieve a quick and one-time result, because it is not a means to eliminate scale, but means, whose action is more aimed at prevention, as well as preventing the appearance of scale.

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Folk remedies - car cleaning

Another thing is proven folk methods that will help resolve the issue of how to clean the inside of a washing machine, radically. Weak speech is not talking about weak acid solutions.If you start to clean, so clean it on a full scale - as they say, once and forever.

Lemon acid

For this purpose, the most accessible type of acid is used, namely citric acid, which is sold in absolutely any grocery store:

1. It must be poured instead of powder - at the same time 2-3 gram packs.
2. After this, turn the machine into digestion mode.
3. The only thing left for you to do after washing is to clean the filter of the washing machine and eliminate from it all exfoliated pieces of limescale.

Important! Experienced housewives are advised to carry out this procedure at least once a year.

Soda ash

In order to clean the machine from mold and unpleasant odors, you must do the following:

1. Mix soda with water using a 1: 1 ratio.
2. Put the pulp on the cuff and drum, because it is under the gum itself that mold most often forms. But do not forget to wear gloves, because soda can cause unpleasant skin irritation.
3. Wait approximately 30 minutes.
4. Use a rag to clean contaminated areas on the surface of the drum.
5. Run the machine without laundry in quick wash mode.

Important! If you haven't soda ash, then ordinary baking soda can quite replace it, especially if such cleaning is carried out regularly, at least once a month.

Folk remedies for prevention

But cleaning may be required both for the drum and the tray, which is designed for powders. Soap and limescale also accumulate on it. Cleaning the powder receptacle is similar to cleaning the drum. Apply gruel from water and soda on the tray for a certain time, and then rinse with water.

Important! Exposure time may vary:

• if this is the prevention of a washing machine, it is enough to hold the mixture for about 15 minutes;
• if this is already a thorough cleaning, the time can vary up to 1 hour.

Soda ash and baking soda is an excellent water softener - accordingly, the prevention of a washing machine with its help will be quite appropriate. You can add 2 tbsp. l soda during each wash, straight to the powder. This will protect your machine from the formation of unpleasant scale.

Important! Do not forget that for the stable operation of the equipment you need protection from power surges. To ensure it, select from our rating good surge protectors. 

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Washing machine contamination

By and large, the work that was spent on regularly cleaning the washing machine from dirt and scale is not so huge. To do this work 2-3 times a year is not so difficult. Especially when you consider that it will completely save you from all these additional costs for repairs or prevent the acquisition of new equipment of this type.

But additional measures will not be superfluous - prevention is prevention, it is quite capable of extending the life of any of your things. As for the washing machine, there are not very many such tools - in particular, there are only a few.

Water softener

In this method, everything is quite simple. To soften the water, use a vessel made of plastic, fill it with a special salt that dissolves lime. Such prevention of the washing machine is not too cheap - if you purchase the vessel only once, you will have to buy special emollient salt regularly.

Install this flask directly between your washing machine and a faucet that provides water to the washer.

Important! It is necessary to add salt several times a month, in some cases more often. It all depends on how intensively you use the washing machine.

At its core, water softening salt, as well as factory substances for cleaning a washing machine, is an ineffective tool.Such methods work exclusively when they are used regularly, from the very beginning of the use of technology.

Important! To ensure that your things are always in order and serve for a long time, learn how to properly care for different fabrics and products from them. Our articles will help you with this:

1. Decoding of icons on clothes.
2. Ironing setting.

Timely preventative filter cleaning

The result of ignoring this moment is an unpleasant odor inside the washing machine - and you should understand that this odor cannot be eliminated with a single cleaning. All that is on the filter after a long operation is putrefactive and mold bacteria, which are divorced due to careless attitude directly to technology.

It is necessary to clean the filter and eliminate small and large debris from it regularly, especially considering that it is not so difficult, it takes no more than a few minutes.

This filter is located on the front panel of the washing machine, below, it is covered by a hinged lid:

1. Unscrew the filter from the bore hole.
2. Then simply rinse it under a strong stream of water - naturally, before doing this, clean it of debris. Items such as buttons detached from clothing and small things falling out of pockets are undesirable there.

Important! In some cases, the smell in the washing machine also arises for a slightly different reason - it is quite simple. After washing, the drum must be ventilated so that all residual moisture evaporates from it. If this is not done, excess dampness promotes the growth of bacteria in the machine, which over time begin to exude the same unpleasant odor.

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Now you know all the measures that need to be taken so that the prevention of the washing machine is really effective. Do not ignore these tips, then the equipment will work much longer than you expected.