How To Get Rid Of Drain Smell From Washing Machine

In addition to neutralizing bad smells it will completely clean the pipes.

How to get rid of drain smell from washing machine. Clean the drain by pouring boiling water into it. Wait for several hours to see if the solution dissolves the clog. Leave the washing machine s door and drawer open. Use 1 2 cup bleach for front loaders 1 cup for top loaders.

Locate your washer s floor drain typically a circular grate in close proximity of the machine. How does this clean my washing machine you might ask. Using bleach is known to give you the best results in cleaning the washing machine and making it odor free. 8 tablespoons of citric acid 2 cups of white vinegar 1 cup of bleach.

If you have the u shape trapped in there you will not get a sewer gas smell because that gas can t back up through the pipe. Add four cups bleach to a top loading machine or two cups to a front loader then start a cycle. Run the washer on hot wash cycle with no laundry in the machine. Leave the machine for 20 minutes and then run it for one washing cycle.

This helps restore water to evaporated drain traps which lead. Bleach kills bacteria but it s also tough on skin and bad to breath. To rid the drum and pipes of bad smells add any one of the following cleaning agents directly into the drum and run a full wash cycle on the hottest setting available on your machine. One of them is to prepare a mixture of half a liter of warm water 200 ml white vinegar and 100g of sodium bicarbonate or baking soda and then pour it down the drain.

Does that make sense. Leave it to act for about 30 minutes and then pour some hot water into the drain. If you ve done numbers one to four and your washing machine is still smelling check your stand pipe. To use baking soda and vinegar use 1 4 cup baking soda and 1 4 cup water in the dispenser.

Pour the baking soda into the drain and let it sit for several minutes. Let the tub fill and stop the wash. Fill the tub with warm water and add 1 2 cups of bleach. The amount of bleach you should use depends on your appliance.

The solution is pretty easy though. Once the water drains off again run a cycle by simply filling the tub with water. You can add a trap by extending that drain pipe and then adding that u shaped trap to it. Run a service wash.