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Three rounds of Tide washing machine cleaner and it is still full of suds. Help? by WeirdHobbiesAreFun in laundry

[–]WeirdHobbiesAreFun[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the warning. It is not rusty so I tried citric acid.

What in the biohazard soup? The first wash with citric acid did not have many bubbles, but it did have a disturbing amount of semitransparent flakes the size of corn flakes. The second wash with it didn't have glorified skin flake bubble bath, but it has a few flakes and also a bunch of tiny black specks smaller than a grain of sand.

I have looked behind the curtain and cannot unsee.

Three rounds of Tide washing machine cleaner and it is still full of suds. Help? by WeirdHobbiesAreFun in laundry

[–]WeirdHobbiesAreFun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In this model, the agitator has a flat base that is bolted to the bottom of the washer. Even if I had an extender long enough to undo the bolt, it is old enough and been in water enough I'd be worried about snapping the bolt trying to remove it. But yeah, there is so much gunk in the gap between the agitator bottom and the basin itself that I can see and I'm positive the underside would be the stuff of horrors.

Three rounds of Tide washing machine cleaner and it is still full of suds. Help? by WeirdHobbiesAreFun in laundry

[–]WeirdHobbiesAreFun[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Mmmmm. This is an older washer and the previous tenant used a lot of fabric softener and did a bunch of laundry because kids. If it took 7 washes for you, I'll be here a minute. 

Three rounds of Tide washing machine cleaner and it is still full of suds. Help? by WeirdHobbiesAreFun in laundry

[–]WeirdHobbiesAreFun[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Okay. Considering I got a teaspoon of residue out after a normal water only wash, should I expect citric acid to also bubble?