How often do you ~clean~ or check your soap SCRUM line

9 years ago

alrighty gang. Just finished the Sunday checklist, one of which was cleaning the Miele....

It's a combo of bad wash techniques on the wifey's part that will never change.....she tends to wash most of the stuff in warm /cold water, etc - in fear, that anything hotter will ruin her precious clothes.

Just curious how often ya'll peel back your gasket and check your outer tub. In most cases, you need to shine a really bright flashlight while peeling back the gasket to inspect it correctly.

For me, my cleaning procedure is somewhat of a manual process on 2 sanitize cycles, one with bleach and another with citric acid. I have got this process down with no manual agitation needed to get it sparkly clean -- it involves alot of pouring of hot water to the point where the overflow sensor kicks in. When the overflow sensor kicks in, and pumps out some water, I follow up by adding back a bit of more water till I can max it out....without the pump engaging. Then it's about 1 hr of agitation/clean time, before the 1st rinse dumps the water out. I follow up with the same *more water* process on the 1st rinse cycle. It takes up a bloddy mess of time I don't want to spend, but it is what it is...

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enduring
9 years ago
Where do you find the soap scum? I only blot out the small puddle that accumulates in the gasket at the end of the cycle. I wash in warm all the way to sanitize every week or two. I usually use the extra rinse cycle. I use both liquid and powder detergents. I have a Miele 3033.
whirlpool_trainee
9 years ago
A picture would be helpful - don't really understand where that area is supposed to be.
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dave1812
9 years ago
We never, ever get soap SCUM in our Samsung 520 washer. Had it for about 3 years.

My folks bought a FL washer (Duet), and due to stupid-people tricks (my elderly dad doing a few loads, not knowing what he was doing) within less than a month, the washer had a ton of very hard, very thick, residue on the seal and behind it. What a mess.

Moral of the story is don't go crazy with detergent. Both their and my homes have soft water. There really is no reason for a properly functioning FL to get a huge build up of ANYTHING. Even when it's been in use for years.
a1an
Original Author
9 years ago
The line - which every machine is different I suppose, based on inner/outer tub, is the area where water does not really hit it , but it does get water there. Terrible analogy I suppose.

For example, on mine, there is a area that can possibly get buildup with not enough hot washes, as this area does not get *dousing* of water* during a wash cycle, It's like this little indent/lip on the outer tub. In order to see this area, I would peel back the gasket, shine a very bright light to see the cavity space between inner and outer tub.
beaglenc
9 years ago
Dave1812, you are blessed to have your parents. Would give anything to still have mine.
whirlpool_trainee
9 years ago
I just peeled back the gasket on my German Duet after three small loads and this is what I saw:
a1an
Original Author
9 years ago
Whirlpool.

It's not the area behind the door gasket.
Between your inner tub *silver* and the outer (plastic or fiberglass), shine a light through that very small opening and start inspecting there....
fahrenheit_451
9 years ago
@chefwong,

Is your water hard or soft?
a1an
Original Author
9 years ago
Super Soft - NYC soft water.

Whirlpool. A better explanation. On your laundry tub, where the perforated holes are - that is where most of the water sits during a wash cycle. If you start looking past that, where the wall of that inner tub starts to form leading all the way to the edge of it - that is the area where you will get water just strictly by nature of agitation and overspray, but not as much as it doesn't really *sit in water* during a wash cycle,

Too many variables, as different makes have different tub designs, etc. For me, that is the scum ring - but it's also due to how my wash cycles are..

I do suspect that while most people are looking at their gasket, how many of ya'll go to great lenghts to check out the cavity I'm referring to....

I'm a OCD clean freak deep down. I have a commercial grade steam cleaner that not only produces steam but allows me to shoot boiling water through the nozzle - I will put the nozzle in that tight cavity and steam clean/send high pressure boiling water through that cavity (after seeing how this a problem prone area) around the entire perimeter of that area. While this cleans the area , nothing beats a sanitize cycle with the overloaded water dosage to really clean it.
whirlpool_trainee
9 years ago
You mean the gap where the outer tub and the drum meet? I cannot even shine a flashlight in there - the gap is that small. It does work on my grandma's Miele, though.

My washer, while a Duet, has the European programming on it: cycles like Bulky, Delicates, Handwash and Wool have water two to three inches up the door glass. There's no Clean Washer cycle.

While I was filming a video for my YT channel, I also decided to have a look at my outer tub. Looks all clean to me. :)

Here is a link that might be useful: A little silliness
Cavimum
9 years ago
"I do suspect that while most people are looking at their gasket, how many of ya'll go to great lenghts to check out the cavity I'm referring to...."

I will admit that I've tried it look, with a good flashlight, but really cannot see much on our Miele W4842. It's not pristine white in there; I see small bits of black but I know that is not mold. It might be dark lint or the tiny black bits that come in thru the HOT water line, which probably come from a disintegrating hose. I really need to check that. . . .

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