How to clean the washing machine from mold: effective means
Once, loading another wash, you suddenly notice: your washing machine smells of damp and mustiness, and black spots appeared on the rubber sealing ring. This is nothing like ordinary mold, and it is not easy to remove. Well, if this attack has not had time to spread too much through the unit - then it will be easier to clean the car.
If the process is too started and the cleaning does not give the expected result, it may be necessary to replace some parts: a drain hose, a rubber seal, a tray for detergent.
Contents
- 1 Getting Started
- 2 Causes of the appearance of the fungus, you need to find all the places where the fungus settled. First inspect:
- rubber seal around the door;
- tray for dispensing powder and rinse aid;
- hose leading from the tray to the washer tank;
- drain hose and filter on it.
All that you can, you need to try to clean the ordinary detergents and brushes. Then all these places need to be well processed, following the instructions, with a special composition for removing mold. It is sold in business departments. There are even chemicals intended for the treatment of washing machines.
But a black mold can also settle on the walls of the tank. How to clean hard-to-reach places that cannot be reached without disassembling the machine? How is the cleaning done in this case? To successfully clear the most inaccessible nooks of the unit, you need to understand why this attack appears in the car at all.
The causes of the appearance of the fungus
Most often this happens with the machines of those housewives who are too inclined to save and prefer to wash in the mode of short washing at a low temperature. If at the same time timely cleaning of the machine from scale is not done, powders that contain bleach are not used, a lot of rinse aid is used, then the mold practically receives an invitation to permanent residence.
This is due to the fact that at low temperatures washing does not disinfect the unit. Up to 60 ° C, disputes feel just fine, and already appeared colonies do not suffer from overheating.
The absence of chemically active substances, which are usually bleach, enhances the degree of comfortable existence of mold. And not too vyporoskanny softener leaves leaves on the walls of the unit mucous plaque, in which the spores are well fixed and turn into new colonies of the fungus.
Dampness plus warmth is what every mold fungus would have dreamed of if she had the ability to dream. What to do to get rid of unsolicited misfortunes and permanently clean the unit?
Means of struggle: cleaning the machine and prevention
To clean the machine and prevent the fungus from returning to its inhabited place, it is necessary to deprive it of comfortable conditions.
Mold does not tolerate acids, high temperature and dryness. To clean the machine, you need to work on the harmful fungus with acid, high temperature, and to top it off - dry the unit well.
Procedure
- Turn on the machine for the longest wash at the maximum temperature, pouring a liter of chlorine bleach into the detergent dispenser.
- After the temperature reaches a maximum, suspend the wash cycle for an hour or two.
- Let the machine finish washing.
- Pour into the dispenser 2-3 cups of vinegar 9-11% and turn on the machine for rinsing.
Some desperate housewives, to surely clean all the parts from black spots, pour bleach and vinegar at the same time, but this is a very radical way that can not only clean the parts, but also harm them.
But this method helps to clean the car very effectively: even widespread black spots disappear. How long - depends on you. Do not create mold comfortable conditions, and it will no longer encroach on your hardworking assistant. So, you no longer have to use radical means to clean the tank.
What to do to not leave the mold a single chance to return
- After each wash, be sure to dry the drum and the rubber manhole ring.
- The powder tray must be removed, rinsed and dried after each wash.
- Do not leave washed clothes in the tub for even a few hours.
- Once a month, be sure to turn the machine on for a boiling wash cycle( or at maximum temperature), using a powder with bleach.
- Once every 3-6 months, clean the machine with citric acid or vinegar. This will remove scale from the heating elements and destroy the spores of the fungus. For the wash cycle you need a liter of vinegar or 400 grams of citric acid. The temperature should be above 60 ° C.
- Do not abuse rinsing agents, balms and fabric softeners. They are poorly washed out and create on the walls of the tank a favorable environment for the development of various microorganisms.
- Do not forget to clean the hoses and filter from time to time. There are constantly accumulated organic residues on which the fungus and bacteria likes to settle. Cleaning the filter is not so difficult; any service technician will show you how to do it.
Updated by 07/11/2017
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