Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: washing machine information

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

Maytag front-loading washers also can get moldy seals if you close the 
door.  Is it a generic problem for front-loaders?
  Muriel
  Shadowlake Village Cohousing

At 06:50 PM 5/21/2010, you wrote:

>  We now have 2 LG front loaders.  My family donated ours to the common 
> house laundry when we moved in because we wanted a water and energy 
> saving machine.  That machine is now 5 years old-  almost 3 years in 
> service as a family-with-kid-in-cloth-diapers machine and a little over 2 
> years as one of 2 machines in an 11 house hold cohousing.  I think we had 
> one minor repair involving the hoses, not the machine itself. We just 
> replaced our broken Maytag with another LG.
> The only problem we have had is that with the higher volume of use, if 
> people fully close the machine between uses the plastic seal gets smelly. 
> Now that we are leaving it ajar, the mildew smell is gone. I don't know 
> how intense our machines are used compared to other cohousings- we have 
> two families that have their own washers and 9 who use the common ones.
> Randa Johnson
> New Brighton Cohousing
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