How to clean a washing machine with vinegar
Such household appliances as a microwave oven, stove, refrigerator, washing machine must be cleaned and looked after in a timely manner.
There are many special tools that shelves of household chemical stores are forced into. However, experienced housewives do not recommend rushing, buying something, and first try vinegar - an available tool that is in almost every home.
How to use it correctly to clean the washing machine, let's figure it out.
Cleaning the machine: step by step instructions
Attention! Some visitors to our site report that acetic acid can harm the washing machine! Responsibility for any of its use lies entirely with you. You can find feedback on the use of this tool in the comments at the bottom of the page.
In order not to risk it is advisable to use alternative cleaning methods.
Cleaning the inside of a washing machine with vinegar is as follows:
- First you need to check the drum for things in it and remove everything, if any. From vinegar, some things may become unusable.
- We take 9% table vinegar and pour 200-250 ml into the compartment of the powder tray where the powder is poured.
Before you clean the machine, wear rubber gloves, this will prevent accidental contact of vinegar on the skin, which dries it very much.
- Turn on the machine, select the longest wash cycle at high temperature (from 60 to 900C) and run.
- After a while, when the water in the drum heats up, press the pause button on the washing machine and leave it for an hour and a half.
- Turn on the machine to complete the cycle.
- Now sure we clean the drain filter from the remnants of scale.
- Having soaked a cloth in a weak solution of vinegar (50 ml of vinegar per liter of water), we wipe the drum and the rubber cuff.
- We start a short washing cycle without detergents and cleaners, so that for sure we rinse all the remnants of particles of scale and vinegar.
- Wipe the inside of the machine, including the powder tray, with a dry cloth.
Note! To get 200 ml of 9% from 70% vinegar, you need to take 24 ml of vinegar (5 tsp) and add 176 ml (12 tbsp) of water to it.
In order to clean the powder container from lime and stone deposits, you can also use vinegar. To do this, pour hot water into the container (900C) and add 250 ml of 9% vinegar. A tray is placed in this solution and left overnight. Choose a container so that the container comes in well and the water completely hides the compartments of the tray. After soaking, the container can be cleaned with a sponge, then rinsed and wiped with a dry cloth.
To clean the container, you can use gruel from baking soda and vinegar. It is necessary to apply gruel for a long time, and then, using an old toothbrush, remove plaque and rinse the tray. After wiping it dry, install it in place.
Vinegar Cleaning: Pros and Cons
Cleaning the washing machine with vinegar has its positive and negative sides. Vinegar is a potent remedy. Its advantages are that:
- it copes well with scale on the inside of the machine;
- destroys unpleasant putrefactive odors and the smell of stagnant water;
- costs several times cheaper than specialized cleaning products.
The main disadvantage of using vinegar is its pungent smell. Therefore, to better wash it out of the machine, you can install an additional rinse. And the room in which the washing machine is installed must be well ventilated. In addition, using vinegar, you must observe the dosage. After all, vinegar of high concentration can negatively affect sealing gum. From him gum coarsen, and then torn.
Alternative cleaning methods
It is possible to clean the washing machine from scale and limescale not only with vinegar.A good alternative is citric acid. Mistresses even more prefer a lemon than vinegar. To clean the machine with a lemon is as simple as vinegar. Only a lemon can be poured not only into the powder receiver, but also into the drum itself, the whole process is described in detail in the article on how to clean a washing machine with citric acid.
Another effective and inexpensive tool that helps clean the tray, drum and cuffs of the washing machine is baking soda. It contributes to the destruction of mold and fungus. In addition, cleaning with soda eliminates unpleasant odors.
From specialized tools, to clean the washing machine, you can use:
- Antiscale;
- Filtero;
- Dr. Beckmann;
- Descaler
- Cleaner Frau Schmidt;
- Five Plus;
- AntiKal.
This is just a small list of the means by which you can clean the washing machine. Today, manufacturers offer their own cleaning products, for example, Bosch, Electrolux, Candy, etc. have anti-scale products. Cleaning with these products should be carried out strictly according to the instructions indicated on the packaging. As for the effectiveness of each of them, you can probably find out only by trying the tool. And only by trial can you find one that suits you in quality and price.
So, you need to clean the washing machine with aggressive chemicals, including table vinegar, every six months. But for prevention, some products can be used with almost every wash, for example, Calgon or Alfagon. Take care of the cleanliness of your machine, and it will last you much longer.
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Acid eats salumin, this is a tank cross, 2-15 rubles! Normal cleaned !!!
What else is salumin? The "master" of horseradish! Could it be Silumin, an alloy consisting of aluminum with silicon and a small amount of impurities? The chemical composition is 5-23 percent Si, the main amount is Al.
P.S. After using a 9% vinegar solution, the washer just needs to be rinsed additionally, that’s all. For 30 years of repair work, nirazu did not meet breakdowns due to the fact that "the acid ate salumin"!
Good evening, who will tell you, from vinegar there will be no consequences for the typewriter?
It is necessary to wet such "masters"! Or shoot from a slingshot. Great article!
What idiot wrote these tips? From your vinegar, I split TEN! Under the replacement of 3 thousand. Thank you, damn it!
What a ten so dear? I changed 450 rubles a week ago and the replacement itself 10-20 minutes.
TEN split from vinegar ?! 🙂 Either he was already dying, or you're a storyteller 🙂
Recently, 9% vinegar has been added to the rinse aid compartment. The volume holds a maximum of 100 ml. Today there was not drained water left from the previous wash, added about 1 tsp of essence. At the end of the wash, when I opened the tank, smoke came from it with the smell of burning. Tell me, what could I dissolve with such a small amount of vinegar that already the smoke has gone? 🙁
In my washer, the water began to leak badly when washing. And she bungled, because when washing, I constantly add Calgon. What with her? And what to do at home?