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• Overloading the washer or dryer.
• Choose a Permanent Press or Delicate cycle as these cycles have been
designed to minimize creasing.
• Try selecting a slower spin speed.
• Do not leave wet clothes to sit in the washer or laundry basket.
• Not enough detergent for load size or amount of soil.
• White clothes are better washed separately. Separate light and heavily
soiled items, as clothes can pick up soil from dirty wash water.
• Select the wash temperature according to soil type. For example, blood
and mud are better washed in cold water, while oily soils wash better in
warmer water.
• Cold water wash too cold.
• Overloading the washer.
• Loads made up of articles of varying sizes will wash better (eg full loads
of sheets may not wash as well).
• Hard water requires more detergent than soft water.
• Wash lint givers eg towels, flannelette sheets, separately from lint collectors
eg synthetic fabrics.
• Overloading the washer.
• Not enough detergent to hold the lint in suspension.
• Overdrying in a dryer can cause a build-up of static electricity in
synthetic fabrics and cause them to attract lint.
• Overloading the washer.
• Try using less detergent.
• Some detergents need to be pre-dissolved, check the detergent instructions.
• Cold ambient temperatures, cold washes or short agitation times may
not let the detergent dissolve properly. Try pre-dissolving the detergent.
• A build-up caused by the interaction of fabric softener and detergent can
flake off and mark clothes. (Refer to Scrud page 20)
• Insufficient detergent, for the amount of soil on the clothes, can result in
black marks on clothes. (Refer to Detergent page 20)
• Wash and dry non-colorfast clothes separately.
• Non colorfast clothes left sitting in a washer or laundry basket can transfer
dye to other clothes.
• Washing with too much water (ie underloading) can cause the clothes to
tangle around one another.
• Do not load the washer by wrapping clothes around the agitator.
WASH PROBLEMS
PROBLEMS POSSIBLE CAUSES and SOLUTIONS
Creasing
Poor soil
removal
Linting
Residue
detergent
Black marks
on clothes
Dye transfer
Tangling
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