Clean Freaks, be careful.
Before throwing that bathroom carpet soaked on the washing machine for a fast turn, don’t do it.
Wash your mat at home could cause important damage to your apparatus, according to an expert in clothing lover.
Scott Flint, a appliance repair technician also known as Scott the Fix-it Guy, says they become so heavy when they get wet that they can wreak havoc on rotation cycles, bursting pieces and potentially accumulating repairs that could cost him the fry of $ 1,000 or more.
“I have seen too many washing machines with ruined front load because the customers used them to wash the bath mats,” Flint explained in a publication on the Family Handyman DIY site.
He pointed out that highly absorbent floor covers can become too heavy for washing machines, which “have a much faster turn speed than the past washing machines, up to 1,200 revolutions per minute during high -speed turns.”
That creates “large amounts of strength with heavy items, and the greatest weight shatters the washing machine,” warned the guru of appliances, which has more than three decades of repair experience.
In other words, placing bath mat in a home washing machine could lead to serious and expensive problems.
On the one hand, it could damage the engine of the machine, since the mat can fly and obstruct it, he said.
“Long fibers in some mats are broken during the washing cycle and obstruct the drain,” said Flint, added that repairing or replacing a drainage engine usually costs around $ 240.
Bathroom carpets can make a number especially in the bearing of the turn basket, which helps the drum and tends to take the hardest beaten under the tension of the flooding mats.
“When the bearing fails, the solution can cost $ 500,” Flint wrote.
Worse, the extra weight often makes the spider support, which supports the rotation mechanism, breaks. This repair price label is also around $ 500.
Flint usefully revealed that a strong and clumsy noise during a high -speed turn could be his washing machine that shakes a white flag: it is a sign of a worn rear bearing.
And although it could accelerate a bit, he said, it’s just a matter of time before yarn stops forever.
Flint offers two obvious solutions to avoid a catastrophe: take the carpet of his bathroom to a laundry with more resistant machines, or scrub it by hand.
But Dr. Mona Gohara, Yale dermatology professor, told the New York Times that there is another alternative: use a wooden mat.
It is “probably a safer option” because “it dries much more easily, quickly”, which makes it less likely to be “wet, humid and dirty.”
A cotton or a polyester carpet, Gohara warned, is “like Disneyland for fungi and yeast.”
To avoid unwanted accumulation in wood mats, experts recommend cleaning them with a mixture of vinegar-water, and the guy does not matter, Gohara advises cleaning them once a week.
