1. Why does lemmy not have a laundry dedicated forum? How have lemmy been a thing for this long with no laundry dedicated forum?

  2. I live in an apartment where there are public washing machines available but the filter for the washing machines are DEFINITRLY not regularly cleaned (most of my laundry smells like vomit right now T-T) so should I just clean it all on my own? in the wash bin? What tyoe of wash bin should ? What else should I consider?

  3. If I do get a washbin do you have any suggestions as to what washbin I should get or sny special considerations I should consider? I plan on getting a steel one. Also I live in canada

  4. I have a lot of merino wool stuff to clean so does anyone have any advice on suirfactants that shouldnt be used on merino wool stuff other than enzymes and bleaching agents?

Thanks to anyone that helps.

Edit THIS is a similar model of machine than what we have here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mWzJ1gw3-j8&pp=ygUobWF5dGFnIGNvbW1lcmNpYWwgd2FzaGVyIGZpbHRlciBsb2NhdGlvbg%3D%3D and I dont know how much trouble Ill get intk for takong off the back part and cleaning out the filter.

  • LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    Sodium hypochlorite is just standard bleach. I’ve never used it for taking stains out of clothing, I know some people do. It’s more a last option, than first go to for machine cleaning. I wouldn’t recommend it because it *can errode plastics and rubbers, relatively quickly, especially if not rinsed well at certain concentrates, that you would come close to needing to clean the machine. Whereas the oxygen bleach won’t errode the plastics or rubbers, and should effectively dissolve any biological contaminants.

    Here’s what I’d do, if wanting to try to salvage using the machine.

    1. Wipe clean, and agitate whatever dirt or sludge in the grooves you can see on the door, gasket, and barrel.
    2. Set a tub clean cycle or hottest wash setting available.
    3. Check if that worked. If not…
    4. Try deep cleaning the machine with oxygen bleach, or oxy bleach it might be called. Run a wash super hot, with soak options. That’s the least corrosive, or damaging to clothing or machine, it’s also the chemical components least likely to cause trouble with any other so I’d start with that. It’s a super awesome component to have in your laundry, anyway, it gets out sweat, blood, stains brightens, great stuff. (sodium hypochlorite, common bleach and the limescale cleaners or standard washing machine cleaners conflict to make dangerous gasses so I’m going to suggest those as a last option).
    5. Still having issues, it might have to have its drain filter cleaned, and possibly professionally, but you could check what a replacement is and just break it off, without harming the surrounding casing. Can’t clean the filter or any of those options?
    6. Try either limescale remover (standard washing machine cleaner) or standard bleach, (sodium hypochlorite) but not both. Although the smell of that bleach might stay in the machine, and at high concentrates might cause damage. If you use one, don’t use the other, they react badly together.
    7. None of that works? Give up and buy a small hand crank machine, something you can spin, or go to the laundromat?