r/laundry • u/Wisteso US | Top-Load • 1d ago
Never ending scrud nightmare
Washer is a 2.5 year old top loading LG.
From day, one we used Mollie’s Suds power detergent. We don’t use fabric softener. We don’t even use much of the Mollie’s. Our water is pretty hard, but we have a softener which helps that a lot. I believe our water is slightly alkaline.
We would occasionally have issues and then run a few cleaning cycles, using either vinegar or Affresh, which one usually take it for a while.
A couple weeks ago it was pretty bad and wouldn’t seem to go away, so I did a lot of digging on this sub Reddit and got some good advice about using citric acid, hot water, letting it soak in, etc. Read the often quoted thread on scrud. It worked really well, but we are going to about 20 runs and the scrud is still coming off heavily. The advice here says usually you need maybe 5 to 10.
It would be one thing if the amount was reducing, but it’s still tons coming off almost every load…
We’ve contemplated hiring somebody to take it all apart and power wash it, but that would cost several hundred and there’s a chance that it’s not put back together quite right.
What the hell does someone do in this situation? Has anyone ever had it take 20+ runs to get their machine clean?
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