My washing machine leaves ugly white lint streaks on my clothes--how can I prevent this from happening?
Question:The washing machine doesn't seem to have a lint filter--that would be the obvious thing to check. We bought it second hand--I think it's about 6 years old.
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Most modern washers do NOT have lint screens... You must be hanging your clothes out to dry... The manufacturers expect you to put them in a dryer... which DOES have a lint screen.
About the only way to get past this is either to use a dryer, or resolve to brush all the things the lint does not shake off of.
Sorry!
But if it's leaving lint, it's getting trapped somewhere. I would do a search on your computer with the make and model and see if you can find out where it is located. :) Mine is all along the top band of the washer. Good luck! :)
Well, for starters I'd wash your clothes inside-out, wherever possible. Whatever lint gets trapped most likely will do so on the inside.
I'd make sure I didn't add the clothes first, before the detergent and that the soap had a chance to rotate a bit in the water before I did add the clothes.
And unless the clothes were really delicate, I'd use the most powerful agitation setting you had - mine is called "heavy duty" cycle, there's also normal, perma press, delicate, etc.
I'd leave it on heavy duty, where you could to get the clothes moving a lot.
It could be you are packing too many clothes in the washer so that they do not freely float about in the water leaving lint streaks. Try putting less clothes in. Just an idea
Washers do not have lint traps anymore. If you are using powder detergent, switch to liquid. Powder leaves white residue, and it also clogs the drains. Liquid is much better.
It's possible that 2 things are happening. First, there might be too many clothes in the load and second, you might not be adding enough detergent to the load.
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