Which products for cleaning the innards of w/machine & d/washer?

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They smell very mouldy. What should I buy to give them a deep clean? TIA

Morrisons dishwasher cleaner did a good job on mine, it's a little blue bottle that you put in whole so to speak.
Not sure about the washer, I could do with something for that myself!

Thanks for the tip!

For a Washing machine, clean hot water. Set it on a White Cotton HOT HOT HOT wash with no powder and no softener. Even if there in nothing else in there, you will see the water go grey and foamy as it dissolves the residue of old soap and fabsoft sludge. Do it again until it no longer foams.

Scrub out the powder drawer and its slot, and the grooves in the rubber door seal. Empty the filter. Leave the door and drawer slightly oplen after use to dry out.

For the dishwasher, take out and scrub all the filters. There might be three. Check your instruction booklet. Make sure you are keeping the salt container topped up.

What's good for getting the black slime off the bit the drawer goes into?

Thanks piglet! Fantastic advice as always. Should i do it at 100 degrees or is that overkill?

White vinegar and a hot wash to clean. Bleach to treat the mould.

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I thought a hot cotton wash was 90 degrees? If yours goes to 100C (boiling) and is designed to be safe, I imagine it will wash the soap sludge out even better.

Yes, bleach kills mildew, but the chlorine causes rubber seals to perish and leak earlier than otherwise. I use a kitchen spray with bleach into the slot the powder drawer slides into, and when the black mildew is dead, a nylon brush to scrub it out. I hope the amount of bleach that gets rinsed into the tub is quite small.

Some people add washing soda to the hot wash, it probably dissolves the soap residue faster. Vinegar will remove limescale, but do that afterwards, don't mix them as they will neutralise each other.

for the washing mashine drawer I use bathroom cleaner in a spray bottle and a bottle brush and old toothbrush to get into all the corners.
I also put the powder directly into the drum because the water pressure is not enough here to dissolve the powder in the drawe. saves a lot of cleaning.

Thanks, this is my job for tomorrow

I'm moving next month into a house with a new washing machine, how best to avoid a repeat of said black slime?

putting the measure of powder through the door will help a lot, also take out the drawer and scrub it in hot water from time to time.

Soft water dissolves the soap and fabsoft better; so does a hot fill, but most modern machines are cold fill.

Leave the door and drawer slightly open after use to dry out.

Hagesan washing machine engineer is good.

Optimistic Use powder, no liquid detergent - easiest way to stop black sludge/slime.

For the washing machine drawer: take it out and soak overnight in hot water with bleach

both for washing machine and dishwasher, put half a pack of soda crystals in the drum/dishwasher and put on long/hot programme (empty machine). Very cheap and works very well.

Washing machine: give the door rubber on the inside a good clean to make sure there are no rusting nails/screws/coins etc stuck in it (with hot soapy water)

Ecoegg has a fantastic tablet for cleaning washing machines. The best I've ever used in nearly 40 years of washing. It also cleans out the detergent drawer. You put tablet in there and put on 90 degree wash if possible. I clean the dishwasher with Tesco own brand dishwasher cleaner on an intensive wash. Once a week I also wash the dishes on an intensive wash too, rather than on normal. It keeps the grease down.