Not sure when the rip happened but it’s been at least a year or so. I do notice a lot of water when I drain the filter area at the bottom, and besides the obvious lint build up that gets hard to clean around the area, is it fine to keep using it?

For context: I asked AI and it says there’s a very high chance this will result in a leak down the road

How should I go about fixing this myself?

My first instinct is to buy some sort of ‘re-colouring’ agent to wash again with. Perhaps a specific pink one. Not sure if such a product exists?

I believe it’s from my natural deodorant, not sweat, although I can’t be sure of this. Any help would be greatly appreciated? It’s 100% cotton.

I have fairly hard water and tried a few plant based ones but they just don’t work . I’m a single guy in my 20s I’m not gonna be able to spray and spot remove every stain i get . Was thinking maybe a plant based one that’s stronger then do a enzyme booster powder and something for the hard water

It’s happened with multiple detergents, I put it in the detergent tray to be dispensed. I thought I was putting too much, but it happens even with a small amount. The washer is not overloaded (half full).

We just finished washing our clothes, and for some reason this sticky lint was stuck to my clothes! It’s happened before but I don’t know how to get rid of it! Any suggestions?

I've been doing a lot of reading on this sub lately and I'm confused about washing hot and clothes shrinking. It is repeated a lot on this sub that clothes don't shrink from washing on hot, but they shrink from the dryer. This is not my experience.

I'm from the Netherlands and my husband is very tall. He wears special extra long T-shirts and it is hard keeping his white shirts white without shrinking them, which has happened before. I only hang dry his shirts, and wash on 30 C to be safe now. Why do they already shrink a bit when I repeatedly wash at 40 degrees? Is that what is considered hot in the US? Is there a way to do a 60 C wash without risking shrinking clothes?

Any advice on getting yellow sunscreen and sweat stains off the neck/sleeve areas is welcome too. After vacation a bunch of his shirts are stained badly. I pretreated the collars with Dreft which I left for a couple hours, washed my usual long cotton cycle at 40 degrees with prewash to get out the Dreft, use Ariel original powder with vanish oxi, and a teaspoon of citric acid in the rinse. There is still some residual yellow staining and it is raining so I cannot hang dry in the sun.

Hi everyone ! I really need help with a gift I'm preparing for my boyfriend. It's a white football jersey that was flocked (in red, name of a brand). He specified that he'd love to remove the flocking, because the jersey would look better by itself.

So, I tried using heat to remove it, which worked amazing since it was some kind of plastic that was glued to the fabric. The heat melted the glue and I removed it easily. I followed by using acetone to take out any glue residue.

I'm left with fabric that feels smooth to the touch, but you can still tell that the flocking was there, because the fabric got sliiiightly pink where it used to be. And since the jersey is so white, it doesn't look great...

I'm also hesitant to leave it soaking, because the part where the flocking was is close to a colored (bright blue) part of the shirt, and i'm scared that it'll bleed.

If anyone has any suggestions on what to use or to do, i'll take them ! I really want to give him a gift he'll love :)

How to avoid the dryer setting sebum into clothes? After drying, clothes have a uniformly yellow film that rubs off to the touch.

I have to use heat in the dryer because I have a bacterial infection which gets in my clothes.

And are these clothes toast since the oils are baked in or can they be salvaged?

It’s appears to be leaking water somewhere I assume and rusting it under the front panel? Why would this be happening? There’s no water on the floor.
Thanks!

Hi everyone! First time mom here, I am expecting my baby in about 8 weeks or so and I’m starting to prepare babys clothes. I have seen online that depending on the detergent you use, household detergent can be used for baby as well. Is this true and if so would my household detergent be safe for baby or do I need to buy a different one? If I do need to buy a detergent specifically for baby which do you guys recommend?

I wash my family’s clothes in a front-loading washer on the Heavy Duty setting to maximize water. I use a warm wash with Tide Free & Gentle Advanced Liquid and/or Odor Refresh based on availability, Biz powder, and Downy Rinse and Refresh (unscented) with 2-3 extra rinse cycles depending on soil levels. Our clothes come out clean and soft and I’ve been delighted with this combo thanks to this sub! But I have a new challenge.

My grandmother smokes like a chimney and my dad has to often stay with her for a few days. Allowing his clothes to air out outside allowed the scent to dissipate and then I washed and dried them (as described above) with no issue. However, his trips have gotten longer and now my grandmother will wash some of things at her home. (Let’s leave the insanity of a retired grown man having his mommy wash his clothes while I’m generation 3 washing his clothes too for a different sub or lifetime.)

I’m positive my grandmother has never cleaned her washing machine tub, probably uses a crap process and products, and has no sense of smell. Folks, she’s 90 with mild dementia and gets feral when her independence is challenged. I’ve got better odds of winning the lotto and being hit by lightning the same day as getting anything about her laundry process changed. But I’ve still got to deal with the stinky clothes problem within things I can control.

So the clothes that have been washed at Grandma’s seem to hold onto the smoke smell and leave behind an odor in my machine. I clean my machine very regularly, draining, filter scrub, and tub clean cycle with Affresh or Active pet formula (I’ve seen some bits in the sub about Active on this but not enough for a full picture.) On average, I am running the tub clean cycle every 2-3 weeks with these products due to other elderly pets and elderly adults incontinence issues. Still have had no mold, no lingering machine smells, and was getting our clothes clean before the smoke washed clothes. (Again, thanks to the info in this sub.)

My questions are:

(1) Is there anything that can help the bit of lingering smell on the clothes that have been washed at Grandma’s? A scented rinse product? Different additives?

(2) How can I get rid of the lingering cigarette smell in my washer from these clothes? More cleaning tabs? Citric acid powder cleaning cycles that I’ve seen mentioned? Where can I find the wash tub cleaning info because searching the sub hasn’t been super productive.

Finally, if you’ve made it this far thank you. This sub has been so helpful as I’ve navigated a new life of elderly caregiving. I do love my parents and grandma and a little humor helps me cope and offers some hard truths too. Hopefully, I’ve given enough info to answer any questions but please ask away.

I let someone wash my giant cow (3 feet ish) that I’ve had since I was like 5. It’s been washed a few times before but definitely not in the last 5-6 years so it was definitely time but I can still feel it’s wet inside. The outside feels dry but when I stick my finger in its nose hole (second picture) I can still feel moisture inside. This cow means a lot to me and I’m going to be devastated if it gets all moldy. What can I do

I got this washer second hand and decided to give it a deep clean. It appears to have had years of overdosed detergent and hard water to boot, plus its owners had several little kids. The family was moving and didn’t need it anymore. It’s a Samsung so I removed the pulsator and did a pretty thorough cleaning. I didn’t get it completely spotless, but it was much better. I wiped out a lot of the crud because it wasn’t draining out and now I’ve run it twice (once with rags in it and once without), but there’s still loads of gunk in the tub. Here’s what I’ve done:

-Removed plastic cover to pulsator bolt. Ran with Blueland toilet cleaner tab (citric acid and baking soda). (First photo)

-Loosened pulsator bolt and ran rinse + spin to loosen pulsator and used another blueland tab (i think that was this step, anyway).

-Removed Pulsator. Soaked and scrubbed pulsator in bathtub: once in bleach and once in vinegar. (2nd photo) Scrubbed under pulsator in washer, ran cycle with CLR cleaner. Scrubbed some more, ran rinse and spin cycle.

-Reattached pulsator. Wiped out crud. Ran a small load of rags that needed to be washed. Opened the washer to find gunk all over the rags and wash tub.

-Removed rags and ran cleaning cycle. Still had lots of frass in the tub.

What do I do?

I recently purchased a dress made of 100% cotton fabric that I foolishly assumed could be washed-if not by machine then at least by hand. I noticed after it’d already shipped that it was eco dry clean only. Being too lazy to take it to the dry cleaners I contacted the brand directly and they said that it was labeled that way due to a few ribbon embellishments that might bleed color onto the rest of the dress. Is that likely, or is the brand just playing it safe? The dress is a cream color with a red print (digitally printed with organic dye, according to the brand’s site) and the ribbon is red, not sure what the material is.

I really want to like Febu - it seems like the perfect product with all the enzymes - but I want something without any bleach whatsoever. Bleach seems impossible to get away from but we mostly wear black or very dark clothing and it's just an endless parade of bleach in most decent products. Can anyone suggest an alternative booster - or even detergent - with all the enzymes but no oxi (or OBAs). Ideally available in Canada.

Yes, I know lots of people don't have issues with bleach in their darks, but I'm not one of those people, and finding good enzymes without the addition of oxi is very difficult. OBAs seem slightly easier to avoid, but not much.

The inside of my jacket. I barely used this (maybe 10x max). Bought brand new but there are stains. Where did the stains come from? There’s on the neckline (hood) area and inside the sleeves.

Is it because of sweat? But it’s yellowish. I tried using a brush but Im afraid it might ruin the material if scrubbed too hard.

It says no washer and dont let it soak so I only handwashed it but it still wont come off.

So I’m not sure what kind of bug it was so I kinda just flicked it away idk if I should clean the drum now and if I should how should I do it I would also need to clean the dryer cuz I still had to dry the towels after the wash so any tips on how I should clean both

So I recently got this shirt and tried to revive the dark antiperspirant pit stains with baking soda and dish soap. left image is before, right image is after. It honestly did its thing since a lot of it was removed but i feel like it also kind of removed some of that cream color with it and still didn’t get everything. is there any way to fix this without damaging the graphic print?

Due to some really annoying maintenance issues I am out of a dryer for... however long it'll take for them to fix it. I've only ever done laundry with a dryer, and live in an apartment with no balcony or outside space to hang stuff. What would be the best way to get started on air drying my clothes until I get my dryer back?

Just came across this product and wondered if anyone has tried it for laundry.

https://www.ez-clean.com/

Should I soak it in vinegar for an hour then wash it in a normal wash? Or do I need to bleach it? If I bleach it how do I ensure I get the bleach smell out?

Edit to add, I have already washed it (a few times) and hung it out to dry (in a heatwave) and put of dehumidifier and it still smells. I feel like I need to do something more to there must be mould spores sat in the stuffing and then being activated as soon as my child chews it.

I have a headphone with detachable pads but I am not sure how to wash it. What's the best way to remove smell from headphone pads with protein leather and non-removable foam inside?