Hello everyone it's 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel and today the Hotpoint
Aquarius washing machine how to clean it out, so this is cleaning the tray up here
and also taking out the filter at the bottom of the washing machine, making
sure that's nice and clean, right let's get cracking (argument with my Wife).
Before we get started there's a link above now about how to remove the
cistern lid on a dual push-button toilet. Okay this is the washing machine here and
the filter that we're going to clean at the bottom, in the manual they actually
call it cleaning the pump but really it's the filter in front of the pump,
first thing we'll do is just check inside the washing machine ,this rubber
seal here I mean this will be quite dirty but if there's any bits of dirt or
sludge in there make sure you clean those out, you've got a drainage hole
there in the middle that isn't a rip so give that a good clean and then if we
open the detergent dispenser drawer and what you do is you pull it out towards
you, and then it comes off a little clip and then just raise the other side there
and then you can just take out this blue thing that's where the conditioner goes,
and then you just slide it all the way out and you can see how dirty it is, it is
covered in mould and gunk and old washing detergent so I'm just going to put that
in the sink and we'll wash that up a bit later on, and look at it inside the
drawer here pretty disgusting not good at all, okay and at the bottom we've got
this cover here so just take a flat bladed screwdriver and you're basically
just prizing this off, be careful, it's not on very tight once it pops out a
little bit you can just get your fingers behind there and just pop it off, while
I'm doing that there's a link above now about how to clean your uPVC windows and
make them stay clean, okay so this is the filter here which is on the pump let's
remove this, you just turn it anti-clockwise but make sure you get a
couple of decent size cloths on the floor because it will spill water
everywhere and it will smell, trust me it will smell a little bit, you shouldn't
get tons of water but enough to think yeah you just need a cloth down there, so
just as that drains off just squeeze that into the sink and then put the
cloth back down you can see it's quite dirty and there is a link above now
about how to clean your thermos flask inside the easy way.
Then we'll just take out the filter completely by just unscrewing it anti
clockwise so just keep going, now on this one it's probably never been off so it
is quite stiff so all I did was got a pair of big pliers just to give me a bit
of extra leverage but with the pliers don't squeeze them really tight as you
do not want to break the plastic, it's just to give you a little bit of extra
leverage so there we go, so it's nice and loose now and then once
it's completely unscrewed and you can just pull it out and there we go,
this one's actually looking pretty good I mean sometimes when you pull these out
they've got hair clips in and coins and all sorts all this has got is just
a little bit of sludge so we can clean this, clean that off in a minute now what
I'm going to do now is just take my wife's toothbrush and just get it in
there that's the pump there and just pull out any bits of sludge which are
inside there, there is a link above now about how to tell which side your fuel
filler cap is on, so you're just pulling out any bits of sludge and dirt and
and all sorts so just making it making sure it's nice and clean,
I won't show you all of this footage because that took a couple of minutes to
clean out so let's go to the sink I'm just gonna clean the dispenser drawer
here and the filter, now I'll speed this up I'm just using my wife's toothbrush
again just to clean off any sludge,
that's all looking good now looking a lot better and we're just going to clean
the dispenser drawer as well, again I'll cut this short because I spent 3 or 4
minutes cleaning this all off and this is what it's like after I finish so spic
and span, now we're going to go back to the drawer that goes in and give this a
clean now I'm just going to start off with some kitchen roll just to get that
sludge out, that's the old detergent, once I've got that I'm going to get a
wet cloth with a bit of detergent and then clean the rest of it out now the
access in here is quite difficult so I did start using a toothbrush but this is
not a good idea because if you accidentally let go of that toothbrush
which is very easy it could disappear down the pipe there is where all the
water goes into the washing machine, once that toothbrush disappears you're in
trouble, it's really hard to film this and cleaning at the same time so I'm
just going to go in and clean it without filming and I'll see you in a minute...
so I'm just cleaning with a damp cloth and a bit of detergent and you will get some
scraped knuckles and skin, my hands are quite big I mean not Andre the Giant big
but they're a reasonable size and there is not much space in here right I've
cleaned it as best I can, we live in a hard water area so it's hard to get it
absolutely spotless because you've got lots of scale and lime scale, but
it's good enough let's have a look okay so this is what it looks like now after
I've cleaned it all out so this is looking really really good,
and that's what it'll like before pretty disgusting,
and that's what it looks like now so that is looking really much better
that is looking really good in there, all we need to do now is put the dispenser
detergent drawer back remember to put the blue cover back in this is where the
conditioner goes, now there is a trick to doing this I'm putting it in here it's
not quite fitting properly but you've got to make sure that this arrow is in
this groove there, there we go you've got two arrows there make sure that's on the
outside so you can see it otherwise it won't fit properly, then what we do is slide
it onto that rail to make sure it's on that rail then if you look underneath
there's another rail there and it should line up with that, once you're happy that
it's on those rails you just keep pushing it until it hits that metal bar
at the back and it just clips in, there we go and then lift the tray slightly
and there we go so that is now back in there, now we're going to put the filter
back in that's the thread there so just offer it in generally and just turn it
clockwise I think it goes around about twice and then you lock it in the
vertical position there now I'm not going to put the cover back on just yet,
the white cover that goes across the bottom I'm just going to put the washing
machine onto the rinse mode just to rinse it all through because I've been
using detergent I don't want my wife to put all our clothes in there and then
wash them they will come out bleached, so I'm just going to use the rinse cycle
which is cycle a just to rinse it all through with fresh water, and there is a
link above now about how to test car fuses without pulling them out using a
multimeter, there we go there is my scrazed knuckle, and start, the
reason I'm doing this without the cover on the bottom is I just want to make sure
that the filter that I've screwed back in isn't going to leak so that's why I'm
checking to make sure there's no water coming out of that, I've got it nice and
tight you can't really overtighten because it just locks in, there we go there's
no leaks and we've got to look in the washing machine so that's all looking
good so we can now put a cover back on, so the clips going at the bottom first
once done at the bottom you just tap it in at the top and it just clicks in,
there we go and then it's very important that you
put your wife's toothbrush back in the bathroom as if nothing ever happened,
actually I'm joking about that that is not my wife's toothbrush that is a spare
one which I use for work, Oh what is this oh it's only a lovely cup of tea,
superb after all that hard work it's time for a lovely cup of tea,
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