Smelly Cat... Made my day as I'm a big friends fan. Thanks for all the helpful tips. Keep well!

Speed queen machines are the best!! Metal gears instead of belts, designed for commercial use but can have for your home ABC warehouse sells them I believe. The older style do seem to be more reliable and the speed queen is the commercial version of the old style with agitator. Shouldn't cost more than a modern HE one either. But it will be more than the residential old style.

Also, for those who have front load especially but top load too HE washer, leave door open after loads at least for a while. My HE top load I leave open all the time Also, for HE front and top loaders, read your manual on how to pull dispenser tray. Just bought a house with Samsung top load HE and pulled the tray. Nasty black both in back of tray and in the hole the tray goes in. I used bleach water and scrub brush. Most people overlook the dispenser tray. Which adds in more mold every wash even if you're cleaning the inside. I now also leave the tray open as there's water in there and no way to get the water out from inside the hole where the tray goes since it's closes the hole where the tray sits when you close the tray.

Thank you

Thanks 😇

this tutorial would definitely be phoeba AND monica approved 😂 thank you … it’s sad i only recently learned you have to clean your washing machine

Tide washing machine cleaner also works well, and let me shine natural washer cleaner both ive seen at Target and Walmart.

@CleanFreakGermaphobe

3 жыл бұрын

I will have to try those out. Thank for the tip.

@matthewbingham8824

2 жыл бұрын

@@CleanFreakGermaphobe The Tide washing machine cleaner packs do not get it fully cleaned as Affresh does. When you use affresh on a front loading washer, you run it on the "self clean" cycle and it goes for almost 3 hours. You only need to clean it once every 3 months that way. With the Tide you need it once or twice a month.

Hi, I don't see a link to the steam cleaner you demo'd at the beginning of the video. Looks rather unique with a pointy, small spout/

We have a 15 year old maytag and still works great!

@CleanFreakGermaphobe

2 жыл бұрын

They built them to last back then 😁

I share a washer and dryer with 3 other households, we rent! I am the only one that ever cleans it! I use the cleaner every so often, but I run bleach through the washer with hot water and extra rinse before I wash my clothes, one neighbor uses an enormous amount of soaps and fabric softener and I am allergic to it, the backwash of her laundry can clean an entire load of mine without me using anything but water, thanks for the steam cleaner trick, the rim seems to be the crudiest

@ThundermansThunder

3 ай бұрын

I know how it is to be the only one to clean something. I am not a germaphobe, but I just cannot understand how people can abide living in filth just to avoid basic cleaning practices! 🤢

Don’t buy a new HE washer please, they’re electronic junk. Everyone has had endless issues with them and all people have done is complained about them because of how unreliable they are. The machine you have will last forever, it’s a whirlpool direct drive with the Maytag label thrown on, as whirlpool bought out Maytag long ago. If you ever need to replace it for any reason just buy a used old school machine like the one you have. They’re proven to be very reliable, I own one myself

@2010stoof

3 жыл бұрын

I have Samsung top load HE washer that came with the house I bought. The side load have many more issues because of the tub bearings But when I need a new one I'll be getting a speed queen. They are commercial washers you can buy at ABC. They have the agitator and all gears, no belts. Meant to be used in laundromats and apartment laundry rooms and work for years and a million loads. But so far no issues at all with Samsung top load, besides all the cleaning I did when I moved in. Everyone pull your dispenser tray and clean it!!! Lol. Everyone forgets about that

@montana1080

2 жыл бұрын

I have a top loading HE and it’s fine. It’s an older model and I would never get a side loader. Very bad for your back and unless you stack them. This tutorial is for older machines which a lot of people still have but why do people need to go out and buy a steamer? Worst advice ever.

@Goldenwoodz

2 жыл бұрын

@@montana1080 I never said anything about a front loader? I was talking about the classic top load mechanical machines before HE corrupted the industry. The HE machines are junk no matter what style they are, fake agitator to wash plate they still just don’t perform nearly as well as the classics. Motors are not as strong, or reliable, too much unnecessary sensing happening during the cycle, and most of them barley use any water.

@melanienagy6389

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately that's all that's available in the stores. I loved my old washer and I kept it as long as I could. You can't find any other washer other than HE.

@Goldenwoodz

Жыл бұрын

@@melanienagy6389 They haven’t sold non HE machines since 2009 other than Speed Queen which still makes solid machines which are currently the best cleaning new machines for top loaders. It’s very saddening that whirlpool and others have to follow insane and ridiculous energy requirements given the HE machines will over sense and use more energy and water by sensing the load and it trying to rebalance it we had an atrocity of a whirlpool cabrio for 12 years and it went thru more energy and water than the last two old whirlpool direct drives combined that we had before that machine

I used dawn dish detergent to wipe mine out

Will vinegar and baking soda get rid of particles from a bathroom rug that fell apart that may have gone inside the washer even though I wiped it and ran an empty load with Tide detergent

@amygerstle2037

11 ай бұрын

This was after I mistakenly washed the rug in the washer

Why can’t you use vinegar and baking soda at the same time? I’ve seen other KZread videos that do. I would like to do it right, so if you know why it’s wrong, I would appreciate to know. Thx.

@stableyetfun

2 жыл бұрын

Vinegar is a mild acid. Baking soda is a base. The neutralize one another. Adding the together creates a chemical reaction. If you mix them wrong you will have a mess.

@CookieCreamOreo

2 жыл бұрын

@@stableyetfun thank you for taking the time to respond. That makes sense. It’s probably much easier to keep them separated.

@karanbirkaur8465

5 ай бұрын

​@@stableyetfuncan we use acid to clean washing machine?

I was looking at new washing machines last year. I decided I would use my old one until it broke. It recently broke the inner plastic tub cracked and all of the water went all over the floor. It was 18 years old. I should have bought a new one when I was looking, breaking like that never occurred to me. I just thought one day it just wouldn't turn on.

Our washing machine doesn't have a hot water setting. Will Affresh still work?

@vbrite86

Жыл бұрын

I'm asking the same thing

@johndoe-vc1we

6 ай бұрын

Not very well. Hot water is more effective

We just got a Samsung washing machine a smart one every 20 25 Cycles and tells you on an app to clean it he keeps track when you clean it recommend a smart washing machine

Affresh left residue and when I dried my clothes it looks like I was at the beach

My washer smells fine, and so do the clothes i pull out of there. But after the clothes are dry, they start to stink. Sometimes it takes days for them to start stinking. I'm at my wits' end. Anybody ever had this issue and figured it out? 😖

@keishaj336

3 жыл бұрын

The only thing that I can think of is if you left them in the washer for a while after washing before putting them in the dryer. My teenage did that & they were smelly within a few days so she had to wash them again

@davem1212

3 жыл бұрын

Look under the rubber tub if you have a front load washer cause I have the same problem but only with towels. Also clean the filter and drain the water in the short tube. That causes mildew and odor if not cleaned once a month also. The filter door should be on the bottom left of the machine if you have a front loader and don’t forget the rubber drum to clean under. Looks like a lot of work but you have to find time. I did this cleaning on the washer regular for years but got lazy and forgot to do it as much here in the last few years. It takes 10-15 mins tops but worth it to do

@2010stoof

3 жыл бұрын

If they're towels, wash with hotter water. Most people try and use cold washes now, but there are parts of the detergent that work best with warm/hot water. If the towels are 100% cotton, wash in hot. I had this issues with my towels. I know they make a tide cold water but I still don't think it works as well as using warm/hot water. Also, run your washer on hot with a cup or 2 of bleach only in it. If it has a "cleaning" cycle use that because with HE washers the water is never very high but the clean cycle actually fills the tub higher than it ever does for laundry so it'll get spots that the cleaners won't. If it's an older washer and not HE, run on Hot and largest load. Lots of water but need to get all in there with the bleach water. I've also heard great things about using 20 mule team brand Borax to clean machines, but I haven't tried yet.

@Charlie-gv3zt

2 жыл бұрын

@David Wanklyn 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@leahrodriquez1349

2 жыл бұрын

@@davem1212 I have top loader but the same issue only the towels I'm even running up my power from double drying even though im sure they are dry first round but I can't figure it out! I'm using the Lysol laundry. Still happens to our towels? And use hot water on towels, whites, sheets sometimes my darks.

To do ours we did a gallon of superclean a gallon of bleach a box of borax a box of oxiclean a box of baking soda and then with ammonia after since ammonia cant mix with bleach.. Then we ran that then ran it alone then a whole gallon of vinegar. With that washer I would've done the entire process twicr

@sacredhealstv901

2 жыл бұрын

@Sarah D hey don't mix bleach and oxygen bleach it's dangerous we did it in open air.

@sacredhealstv901

2 жыл бұрын

@Sarah D the rest I do recommend. But yeah I wouldn't add both just add which ever you got

Listen never switch to a modern washer they are junk

@CleanFreakGermaphobe

4 жыл бұрын

Ha ha. When the machine refuses to break down.... I cant seem to give it up😌

@ScantPear

4 жыл бұрын

Clean Freak & Germaphobe not funny when something goes wrong, fix it, don't replace it... these modern ones are too expensive to fix and it will stop working after a short amount of time

@samqueen17

3 жыл бұрын

True, I have an old school washer and dryer for 7 years now with zero issues and my father in law has a modern front loader and has had to have it fixed 3 times over the 4 years he’s had it

@ScantPear

3 жыл бұрын

Samqueen always fix your old one or go to a used appliance store and buy a used old school one

@sharris3624

3 жыл бұрын

@@ScantPear YES 💯💯 agreed!!!! I've been saying this for the longest!!

Where is that huge thing of downy beads from?

@CleanFreakGermaphobe

3 жыл бұрын

Costco actually👍

@2010stoof

3 жыл бұрын

Or Sam's club

SMELLY CAT!

Smelly cat lol

@CleanFreakGermaphobe

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. You are the only one to catch that little joke🤣

SMELLY CAT

Afresh is really no different than powder Detergeant . Read the ingredients

affresh is like $2 a puck, expensive af!

@CleanFreakGermaphobe

3 жыл бұрын

It's a little pricy. For some it is worth the convenience though

@annaalton2399

3 жыл бұрын

They are $3.33 Canadian a puck where I live

@Enorugger1

2 жыл бұрын

Look into citric acid

@mariexo

2 жыл бұрын

11.99 for me just for a pack of 3

@loveu8910

2 жыл бұрын

Use washing soda (sodium carbonate). It’s one of the active ingredients used in afresh tablets along with sodium percarbonate (an powdered oxygen bleach like oxiclean)

How to clean a washing machine…. Buy another machine…. Worst tutorial ever.

@CleanFreakGermaphobe

2 жыл бұрын

You should clean yours regularly. Every month. If you have the budget to buy a new one that often.... That would be amazing.