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anybody with a front loading washer?Submitted by huck on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 4:25pm.
we bought a used front loader months ago. it is really sweet and small, fitting in our small apartment nicely. the issue lately has been that a small amount of water is always puddled in the rubber seal. we cant seem to figure out how to get rid of it. it has created some nasty mold. now everything has a mold smell when it comes out of the washer. fortunately the hanging them to dry makes them smell good again, but i am so ready for this problem to be solved This was the common flaw that many FL had. Before I bought mine I did the research (my old washer was 22 years old LOL). Anyway, the newer ones has drains in the section low enought to drain out the excess water. Sorry it's adesign flaw, but FL's ROCK!! HTH's suggestions: scrub it out with vinegar (or bleach) and a toothbrush (ew) "If nothing else, life in the suburbs promised that you might go from day to day without finding shit in our hair." ~ David Sedaris has a front-loader with the same problem, and it's NAS-TY. the whole laundry room reeks of mold, not to mention most of the loads of laundry i do. i always wonder if there's some kind of anti-fungal coating that you could paint over the rubber to stop shit from growing there, but i'm not sure. if you figure it out, let me know! i'd be a frigging hero at work if i could solve their moldy laundry problems.... |
we have one and it does the same thing. i scrub it out about once a month and just try to dab up the pooled water whenever i remember.