Category: How To

For years I believed I cleaned our washer gasket. Every Sunday I ran a cloth around the rubber ring of our old Whirlpool front-loader; it looked fine, and I moved…

I pulled a set of white sheets out of our LG one Saturday and found them sprinkled with tiny black specks, like someone had shaken a pepper grinder over the…

Most washer manufacturers recommend running the cleaning cycle once a month, or after roughly 30 to 40 loads, whichever comes first. Check your own manual, because the exact number varies.…

There has been a box of Affresh tablets on the top shelf of my laundry room for fifteen years. It started with our old Whirlpool, survived the move to our…

We came home from a lake week the summer before last to a laundry room that smelled like a forgotten gym bag. Someone, and I have suspicions, had left a…

Before our LG, we had a Whirlpool front loader for eleven years. It arrived the summer our oldest learned to walk and left the house on a dolly the week…

My sister called on a Sunday night to complain that her Samsung washer smelled like a basement, even though she ran Self Clean every month. She said it was like…

The first time our LG flashed “tcL” at me, I assumed it was an error code and that the washer had picked a terrible week to die. I stood there…

I know, a machine whose entire job is washing things apparently also needs to be washed, inspected, wiped down, aired out, and occasionally fussed over like a slightly needy houseplant.…