Agreed on the pseudoscience. And this is an automatically selected "feature"? *facepalm*
We had one washing machine pump conk out after about a year, presumably from limescale buildup. (Suspect it got wedged with a dislodged chunk.) I was running an empty 90° cycle with vinegar or citric acid periodically, but apparently not often enough. So now I'm verging on paranoid with the new machine, and making sure to do that weekly.
I grew up on limestone karst, and am still amazed at the liquid chalk coming out of the tap here.
Good luck finding a new machine! Excellent point from hairyears, about the filter trap. Expecially given the scary chunks of dislodged limescale I was pulling out of there before (not to mention mats of cat hair). Neither the quickly-dying machine nor the one we've got now has a user-cleanable filter, and I'm just waiting for unfortunate things to happen with that. Another useful thing? A user-accessible and -cleanable pump impeller. Can't help on which models might have both, unfortunately.
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Date: 2010-08-09 01:32 pm (UTC)We had one washing machine pump conk out after about a year, presumably from limescale buildup. (Suspect it got wedged with a dislodged chunk.) I was running an empty 90° cycle with vinegar or citric acid periodically, but apparently not often enough. So now I'm verging on paranoid with the new machine, and making sure to do that weekly.
I grew up on limestone karst, and am still amazed at the liquid chalk coming out of the tap here.
Good luck finding a new machine! Excellent point from