20PROBLEM SOLVING20
Creasing
Poor soil
removal
Linting
Residue
detergent
Black marks on
clothes
Dye transfer
Tangling
•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.
•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, flannel 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 13).
• Insufficient detergent, for the amount of soil on the clothes, can
result in black marks on clothes.
•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
PROBLEM POSSIBLE CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS
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