Can I use vinegar to clean a washer/dryer combi?

[Kaloobear]

I used to do a hot wash with vinegar in our washing machine but now we have a combi (which I hate ). Can I do the same thing?

yes you probably can. I am sure I have. I have also used soda crystals as i dont always have vinegar going spare

I hate my combi too. Rubbish pile of indesit crap! But I have washed it with vinegar and it didn't make it any crapper!

Mine too is a rubbish bit of Indesit crap and it makes me angry every day! It washes fine, it's just the drier bit which is worse than useless. Gah. Ok, good to know about the vinegar though.

Also, while I have fellow Indesit haters on board, does anyone know where the filter for the fluff is? We inherited this with no instruction manual and I can't see a filter anywhere!

My ridiculous machine has no user serviceable filter. It is almost certainly this that causes my pile of crap to overheat and for the dryer not to work, as when the joke of a repair man came, he showed me the amount of fluff that had built up. He said it was my fault for washing new towels without checking with me whether I had infact washed any new towels. I hadn't.
Mine makes me angry every day but I gave up pursuing indesit about it when I fell pregnant as it was making me too livid!

Mine overheats yet doesn't dry anything either. Argh! As soon as funds permit this thing will be replaced. Though at the way we're going that might be 5 years from now sadly.

Vinegar will help remove limescale, but usually washers suffer from a sludge of old soap, which vinegar will not help. Plain very hot water with no soap will dissolve the sludge. A cup of washing soda will help. Do it again until the water no longer foams up or turns grey with dissolved soap sludge.

You can very often download manuals from the makers website when you know the model number.

Thanks for the tip Piglet. I've just downloaded the manual, and yep, there's no fluff filter. Unbelievable! Where does it go?!