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Here's a tip I learned from my new appliance repair guy today.   Wash your washing machineDRYER lint catcher in very warm water and soap to clean it if you use dryer sheets.  Dryer sheets contain animal fat.  This clogs up screen restricting air  flow.

Calypso Jones wrote:Here's a tip I learned from my new appliance repair guy today.   Wash your washing  machine lint catcher in very warm water and soap to clean it if you use dryer sheets.  Dryer sheets contain animal fat.  This clogs up screen restricting air  flow.  

@Calypso Jones, in which case, don't you mean the dryer?

I always (that's an exaggeration), wash my washing machine.  Otherwise, it builds up crud, just like a bathtub can.  

I don't know of any washing machines that have a lint catcher.  Except maybe on the outside, and that's pain in the rear - no pun intended, but take it for what it's worth - to get to.

My washing machine has a lint catcher inside the tub and after how ever many washes (I think it's 20) a light flashes and won't stop until I run it through a 'tub clean' cycle.

I did mess up there Red. I mean Dryer....but he checked my washer too and i just kept fixating on that in the back of my mind. Plus. look at the time i posted that...and from my phone. I wasn't drinking either. LOL

Red Lily wrote:My washing machine has a lint catcher inside the tub and after how ever many washes (I think it's 20) a light flashes and won't stop until I run it through a 'tub clean' cycle.

i have something like that too. But it is in the front of the barrel. I use a paper towel and run it around the front edge of the barrel just under the large gasket. gunky mess.

The manufacturers have redone their machines till i feel i have no control to do the job I WANT.    I hate that.  Not to  mention the detergents.  They took out the ingredient that gets clothes clean.   So.  I go to lowe's and buy that additive and put it in the detergent myself. When they figure that out they'll make that ingredient impossible to get.

What additive is that?

https://www.hunker.com/13422527/how-to-add-trisodium-phosphate-to-laundry-detergent

trisodium phosphate....tsp

Calypso Jones wrote:https://www.hunker.com/13422527/how-to-add-trisodium-phosphate-to-laundry-detergent

trisodium phosphate....tsp

Hmm. My dad used to have me clean walls and things with that stuff.

it was also in your detergent and was the agent that got your clothes clean.   Check the link..it tells you how to add it back. You can buy two kinds. Phosphate added and phosphate free. Your choice.