Hello everybody it's 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel I'm here to save you time and
money and today it's the Bosch washing machine
if your fabric software is not draining properly after a wash and you've still
got fabric softener in your dispenser drawer then you could have a bit of mould
and gunk and blockage in some of the jet holes, I'll show you how can easily fix
this, alright let's get cracking, what you're going to need today is your
partner's toothbrush and you're gonna need a piece of wire. [Wife speaks] 'Lurgs have you been using my tooth brush for cleaning again?'...[Me] 'Um No'.
Right so if you've been doing a wash and at the end of the wash you open your dispenser drawer and
you've still got fabric softener in the middle this indicates that you may have
a blockage in your jet nozzles, this is where the jet nozzles wash out and push
through the fabric softener into the washing machine, so the first thing to do
is remove the dispenser drawer, whilst I'm doing that there's a link above now
about how to install a brand new washing machine, now this level indicator cap
just pulls off you can see this is not in bad condition but we've got lots of
fabric softener residue just sitting in here, and this is inside the dispenser
drawer area and this is not too bad but as you can see on the top we've got a
bit of mould and gunk, this machine is only eight months old so you can see how
quickly it builds up and we're really careful with this washing machine, now
before you get started it's really important to just get a cloth and just
block that hole up because you don't want the toothbrush or the wire falling
down into the washing machine because that is a world of pain! Whilst I'm
blocking that hole up there's a link above now about what to do if your
washing machine is not draining water, now I'm going to take my coat hanger
wire and what you're doing here is you're just basically pushing it into
these jet nozzle holes here and the fabric softener on this Bosch washing
machine is in the middle, so you're just pushing up there into each hole just
making sure that you can remove any gunk and gunge, now if you've got a dental
floss toothbrush that is absolutely ideal if you've got a small brush head on the
end you can just poke that up inside there
and just wiggle it about and just make sure you get any debris out of there or
any mould, now I believe this whole unit does actually pull off you can see some
small clips at the back but I tried this and it was really difficult and you have
to be very careful because obviously you do not want to snap this, so I'm just
gonna clean it with this hook and obviously while you're in here you might
as well clean the other holes as well on the detergent side and the pre-wash
detergent side just to make sure that they're nice and clear, these are
unlikely to be blocked because obviously the fabric softener does create mould and
gunk over time, then take your partner's toothbrush and just get inside here with
some hot soapy water and just give this a really good scrub all around the jet
nozzle holes and basically all around the dispenser drawer area, as we've got
it all opened up you might as well get this spotlessly clean get it as good as
you can and then take a hot soapy cloth and give it a good scrub as well, whilst
I'm doing that there's a link above now about how to activate the child lock on
this Bosch washing machine, now I've got my wet soapy cloth I'm just giving that
a really good clean, this is about five or ten minutes later as you can see this
is looking pretty good what I'm going to do now is I'm just going to clean the
actual dispenser drawer so I'm just going to lift this off, this is actually
not too bad but we can clean all this with our partners toothbrush so we've
already started to get a bit of mould residue building up on here and as we're
going to put it back we might as well make it spotlessly clean so just give
this a really good scrub with hot soapy water, and there's a link above now about
what to do if the door is stuck on this Bosch washing machine, as you can see on
the back there's a bit of mould residue building up as well so let's just clean
this up,
I'm not going to show you all this footage but this is what it looks like
after I've given it a really good clean, so that's looking spic and span top
notch, just going to give this level indicator a quick clean as well and then
we're ready to put the dispenser drawer back in once it's dried off, might as well
check the rubbers inside the door here make sure there's no blockages in there
and that's all nice and clean, if it is dirty you can give that a clean with a
soft soapy cloth or your partner's toothbrush again, now just put
the dispenser drawer back in and line it up you may have to push that button down
and then just slide it all the way home and then what you definitely definitely
need to do is put it on a wash where you can put it on the hottest setting that
there is, don't put any clothes in it don't put any detergent in it just set it
to the hottest it'll go and this one will go to 90 degrees centigrade and then just
start a washing cycle or a rinse cycle and just flush the whole washing
machines through, that should finally get rid of any mould and gunk throughout the
washing machine, if you have any you can put mouthwash into the detergent drawer
compartment this will make it even cleaner, and then don't forget to put
your partner's toothbrush back, actually I'm only joking that's a spare
toothbrush I use for cleaning all my dirty bits, and after all that hard work it's
definitely time for a lovely cup of tea!
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