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Smelly Washer or Tide Washer Cleaner. Any personal experience with these products?
I live in an apt building with 8 units. Not all the tenants do their laundry here; i.e., free laundry at Mom's. Older top loading washer, I'd say at least 10 years old, commercial model. This afternoon I opened the laundry room door, and nasty odor - the whole room. I think at least part of the culprit is a certain tenant. The washer definitely needs some assistance. Owner will not put out for a new one until it can't be repaired anymore.
The online instructions I saw for the Tide product dealt with HE washers and said to put it in the detergent dispenser, which doesn't exist on the washer here. Will it work in a non-HE washer?
Thanks for any reviews. :)
I haven't use those particular products, however I have used vinegar in my washer. We have hard water and although we do soften it, there still tends to be a build up. Vinegar works well.
I have also had experience with apartment laundry rooms. Until we bought our home, we lived in an apartment tower and shared laundry facilities like so many others. I walked in one day to see a woman remove her stable blankets for the three horses she owned. She didn't see the problem washing them in the same washers others in the complex would use. I explained that the horse sweat and hairs would be retained and she laughed and said it wasn't her problem. I owned horses as well, and she wondered where I washed my stable blankets. I happened to own an old, used washer and dryer and had it hooked up in the tack room. She felt it was too much trouble to do that. You just never know what someone else has washed in the washer.
As a newly wed, I washed all of our white clothing one day only to open the washer and find it all the prettiest silvery blue colour. Someone dyed clothing before me. After that I was very cautious and finally bought an apartment washer on wheels with a sink hookup. I just went to the laundry room to dry the clothing.
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Any time I've used a product that was meant to be put in a dispenser, I use it in the tub part anyway. I usually let the washer get pretty full to begin with, then add the detergent, finally the clothes.
If it's a softener or something that the dispenser is supposed to add mid-cycle, I pre-dilute with some water, add to the washer and swish it around so it mixes completely.
Not sure what a HE washer is, though.
To get rid of the smell in the washer, can't you use vinegar (if you're eco-minded) or just bleach? Amonia --- but not with the bleach.
For the smell in the room, can you put a bowl of vinegar in the room overnight? People swear by that stuff. Ditto on the bowl of amonia.
Now picture Mitch swishing................
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