My old washer just let the smoke out of the control board in the middle of a load of laundry the other day but luckily I had my moms old washing machine (still newer than mine was) laying around to hook up instead. Except now I realized that my mom aparently loves fabric softner and every compartment on the thing needed a waxy fabric softner buildup scrubbed out of it.
I can’t exactly complain about a free appliance but damn do I hate fabric softner. It makes my fabrics water repelant and it gums up washers. Awful stuff.
Even without fabric softener people should be running a hot water heavy duty cycle with bleach or washing machine cleaner every now and then because that sludgy buildup happens eventually either way
I’ve run 4 swlf clean cycles some with bleach, some with vinegar, and some with the professional washer cleaning stuff. It’s still full of gunk. I’m pretty sure I’m just going to have to pull the drum and hand scrub at this point.