After washing, the smell of linen

The task of the washing machine is not only to wash dirty laundry, but also to refresh it, destroying all odors.

But what if, at one fine moment, you take out the laundry and clothes from the drum after washing, and they stink as if they were not washed at all? An unpleasant smell is an occasion to think about whether you are caring for the machine correctly, in addition, the smell may be the first "bell" about its breakdown.

Causes of Bad Smell

Pulling out laundry and clothes after washing, you find an unpleasant odor that persists even after drying, what could be the reason?

1. Waste water stagnation in the tank. This is the most common reason when things that experts call bad smell. If water with particles of powder stagnates for a week and is not washed out, then mucus forms at the bottom of the tank. With a new wash, the mucus mixes with clean water and gets on the laundry, as a result, the laundry smells bad.
2. Clogged nozzles, drain hose and drain filter can also cause an unpleasant odor.
3. Sewage blockage. Smell can enter the machine through an improperly connected drain hose if a siphon effect occurs.
4. An unwashed cuvette with powder residue and a touch of mold is another reason for the formation of an unpleasant odor. When washing, the cuvette is washed with water, mold particles get into the drum with linen, which smells bad after washing.
5. Stagnant water in the gum of a drum. After washing, water remains in the cuff of the hatch after washing, which is a favorable environment for the development of microbes and mold. And if you do not monitor its cleanliness, it is not surprising that the laundry smells damp after washing.
6. Poor-quality powder and its overdose. As a rule, this reason is revealed in those cases when the machine is looked after, wiped and cleaned, but the smell still appears. How much powder to pour into a typewriter - this is important, if it does not wash, it will remain inside the machine and after a while it will start to emit an unpleasant odor. Try changing the powder, a poor-quality product may cause things to not be removed and they smell unpleasant.

Note! More often, the smell problem after washing occurs when the machine is installed in the bathroom, which is poorly ventilated, it is constantly present damp and high humidity.

Ways to eliminate bad smell

To get rid of the unpleasant odor on the laundry after washing, it is necessary to gradually check all possible causes, rinse and clean the machine. Re-washing laundry with powder may not help to remove odor. Therefore, you must act for sure.

Start simple - check the drain filter. In almost all washing machines, it is located below a small panel. Open the panel, put a rag on, unscrew the filter and remove it for inspection. Wash it with any improvised detergent, such as Fairy, it will remove odor well, and then return the filter to its place. You can also drain the water from the tank through the emergency drain hose, which is located next to the filter, perhaps this will help in the fight against the smell of laundry after washing.

If you have never washed a powder cuvette or do it very rarely, feel free to take it. Getting it out of the machine is very simple, just press the cuvette holder with your finger, usually the index finger is drawn on the holder. So, clicked, pulled over, and the cuvette is in your hands. Now we take a large container with clean water, pour Domestos, Toilet Duckling or any other remedy, you can even take table vinegar, if its smell does not irritate you, and immerse the cuvette in the solution for 3-4 hours.

At this time, you can do the compartment under the cuvette. This will require a toothbrush and baking soda.Wet the brush with water, dip in soda and clean everything thoroughly. If plaque cannot be removed, apply soda to contaminated areas and leave for 2-3 hours. After the elapsed time, clean and rinse everything again, do not forget to carefully clean the hole into which water enters. At the end of the work, wipe the compartment with a dry cloth.

Note! In addition to soda, you can use all the same means as for washing the cuvette itself, the main thing is to rinse everything well.

Return to the cuvette and brush or sponge to clean off all dirt, mold, limescale. Thoroughly rinse the powder receptacle with water and wipe it with a dry cloth, put it in its place.

The next step is a sewer test. If the machine is connected in the kitchen, pay attention to how the water leaves the sink, if slowly, then the siphon may be clogged. And as a result, after washing, the laundry smells bad. To eliminate clogging, it is necessary to clean the siphon using various detergents and a special cable with a brush.

As for the drainage system of the machine itself, then how to wash it is written in the article how to clean the drain hose of the washing machine.

Now let's turn our attention to the cuff of the hatch. If there is mold on it, then apply a solution of copper sulfate on it for about a day, then rinse everything with a cloth. To make sure that the laundry does not smell after washing, start a test wash with the addition of 150 g of lemon or a small amount of table vinegar (half a glass). To do this, select the continuous mode at 90⁰C, and be sure to install an additional rinse. Lemon will not only help eliminate odor, but also remove scale. Table vinegar washes out the smell of damp. But after it, you need to ventilate the room and the machine itself well.

Advice! Vinegar eliminates the smell not only from the machine, you can try rinsing things with a small amount of vinegar, and then drying them outdoors. Pairs of vinegar will quickly erode.

Prevention of odor from the machine

In order not to have to wash things from the unpleasant smell of the washing machine, and to think why it appears, it is necessary to apply preventive measures to combat such smells.

• After each wash, rinse the cuvette and cuff of the drum and wipe them with a dry cloth.
• Keep the hatch door slightly ajar, especially in the bathroom, so that the drum and tank are well ventilated and dry, otherwise, things after washing will smell damp.
• Regularly, at least once a month, you need to rinse the drain filter and drain the remaining water from the tank.
• Do not store dirty things in the drum until they need to be washed, behind a closed door, especially for socks, T-shirts and kitchen towels that smell bad. Such storage is possible only in extreme cases.
• Launch washing at least 60 times a week⁰C so that hot water leaches out the rest of the powder that has settled in the tank.
• Necessary regularly clean and wash the washing machine.

So, if after washing things and underwear smell like something and this is not a powder, then look for the reason in the machine itself. And best of all, do not neglect the simple rules of caring for her, and then you won’t have to look for the reason why you can’t remove things from the unpleasant smell.