Do NOT PUT Fabric Softener in the BLEACH Dispenser!!

thekmanrocks · 2014-02-09T20:49:33+00:00

After two years of pouring the directed amount of both concentrated and reg ular liquid fabric softener into the bleach dispenser receptacle of our top -load washing machine, something started happening: Bleach no longer followed the correct path into the fill-stream of water en tering the machine! Instead, it simply overflowed the sub-tray(underneath the marked receptacle) and spilled directly onto laundry in the drum. Eno ugh bleach remained in that sub-tray to spill over onto non-bleach(colored) loads, ruining 3 of my wife's favorite pants!! I had to remove the top receptacle, soak up all the liquid that had accumul ated in the sub-tray, and wait a couple hours for it to dry. After that, I was able to scrape out nearly ONE-EIGHTH INCH of solid accumulated fabric softener from the bottom of that tray. I used a toothpick to remove additi onal crud from the slit that feeds the channel at the top of the drum that carries bleach around the top of the drum to mix with the in-stream of wate r filling the washer. I then put the empty washer on rinse cycle, and poured one cup of hot water from my K-Cup machine into the bleach sub-tray, to really clean it out. What a FU%$!#@ING MESS!! So much for following the directions on the label. From now on, we are di luting our fabric softener with water and pouring it directly into the mach ine while it is filling water for a load cycle. After we run out, we wil l buy only the laundry detergent that combines fabric softener. And the only thing going into the bleach dispenser is BLEACH - and a once-y early flush with 190degree water. Fabric softener - what a damn RIPOFF anyway. They didn't have "fabric thof tener" - la de dahh - in WW2!! And their clothes came out fine! sheesh...

Feb 09, 2014 23 Replies

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T 7 years ago

Kathy!

Alliance Speed Queens have gone to hell! The new Speed Queens are just garbage. They are their old front loaders turned on their backs -- literally!

If you want an old Speed Queen, get an Alliance Huebsch

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It is also make by Alliance, as is Speed Queen. It is meant for a commercial setting, but they have a model without a coin box. The internals are exactly the same as the old Speed Queens. You can actually swap the tops out with an old Speed Queen AWN432SP113TW04 to rebuild and a AWN432SP113TW04. And you can use straight hot water if you want. AND NO LOCKING LID !!!!

Here is a write up on it:

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Downsides:

1) stupid electronic controls (Washers should be mechanical controlled)

2) only one water fill level, BUT IT IS A FULL FILL, not a participial fill

3) they give you a bad time about your warranty if you are not a commercial entity

-T

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