How to maintain, clean and descale a washing machine.

How to keep your washing machine clean?

• Regular maintenance of your washing machine
• How to clean filter and pump of your washing machine
• How to take care of door seal and rubber
• How to ensure a proper and working detergent drawer
• How to handle water supply filter, drum and exterior surfaces of your washer and whether and how and how often you should descale your washing machine

Follow the tips below to asure that your washing machine stays clean and to avoid bad odours:

A smelly washing machine drum is a very warm, damp and dark place, which provides the optimum conditions for bad odours to develop and linger over time. These bad odours can even be transferred onto your clothing, which significantly reduces their freshness and defeats the object of putting them in the washing machine in the first place! Below there is the explanation how to clean your washing machine to keep bad smells at bay and ensure your clothes maintain their freshness and brightness.

Recommended steps to maintain your washing machine:

• Do a regular maintenance wash once a month at high temperature In order to ensure that your washing machine and your clothes are kept fresh, clean and odour-free, it’s highly recommended that you put your washing machine through a regular 90°C to 95°C maintenance wash at least once a month without any clothes in the machine.
• Use washing machine cleaner

For the best results it’s also recommended that you use Siemens Home Appliances Service tested and approved washing machine cleaner in conjunction with your high temperature maintenance wash for safe and effective cleaning and odour removal.

For the ultimate clean, simply follow the steps below which show you how easy cleaning a washing machine can really be by using a washing machine cleaner.

• Pour the entire contents of the washing machine cleaner box into the empty washing machine drum.
• Put the washing machine on a 90°C cycle (without pre-wash) and allow the program to run completely.
• Enjoy a cleaner and more pleasant smelling washing machine drum.

Purchase approved cleaning and care products for your Siemens washing machines from the Siemens Online Shop. Keep washing machines in top form with machine-cleaning and care agents.