Lauderess, what to do about the prevalence of icky-stuff on the inside of the outer tub on FLs? The very thought of all that crap in there is enough to give me a scare. And does the same thing happen to commercial machines in laundromats?
Seems to me the best protection against that stuff is a solid tub, or something like the Staber where you can probably reach into the gap between inner & outer with a cleaning brush. Or on perforated-tub TLs, lift the entire top of the machine occasionally to give it a scrubbing.
Or does the foaming vinegar & baking soda treatment take that stuff out?
And also, does stuff like that build up under agitators on TLs, or under pulsators on the machines that have them?
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On THS, someone posted a topic on disgusting laundry habits.
The worst of the batch was the case of the apartment-dweller who waited for the washer and when the person who did the last load didn't show up, he removed the last load himself.. to discover it was, how shall we say this, full of the obvious signs of incompletely washed out human poo-poo, which had also gotten into and plugged up many of the holes in the inner tub.
Needless to say, he & his pal made a hasty retreat to the nearest laundromat, only to return to discover the guy who owned the poopy load had run them through the dryer with similar results (dried-up bits of poo clogging up the lint filter).
So, how would one go about cleaning & sanitizing after something like *that*..? And what's the risk in public laundromats? (IMHO, the guy with the poopy load should have been reported to property management as a manifest health hazard.)