Limescale tablets in washing machines

Since 2017 he probably did that... Brian

A box of 75 cosrs £13.69 which works out at £0.1825 per tablet. Using one per day 7 days per week for three years comes out at under £200. Our Miele cost around £600 ten years ago and still as good as new.

My washing machine cost less than £200 nine years ago and is still going strong without using Calgon.

Used mainly on a cold wash it occasionally gets a dose of washing soda on the hottest wash cycle.

Lidl sell such tablets here as well. We have pretty darned soft water.

I used to live in a very hard water area. Plenty of scale deposited in things like kettles, you could even see it in pans as they heated up on the hob.

But our washing machines never suffered from any scale. There was some on the heater elements, but not enough to be a problem.

What I want is a foolproof way of preventing any mould forming, especially round the door seal.

Our old Hotpoint lasted fifteen years; I fitted door seal, bearings, heater and motor brushes. Eventually the motor blew up.

The heater didn't actually fail, but the integral seal hardened and started to leak. We are in a hard water area. There was practically NO scale on it, and we never used Calgon.

polygonum_on_google brought next idea :

Me too! The lip on the seal, which retains a little water. I've tried a little bleach left on it to soak, but it makes no difference.

On the packet of my lays purchase of washing powder tablets it says 'use two in hard water areas'

I assume it has a Calgon equivalent built in...

But wait a minute, you've been using the tablets for 10 years presumably, cost well over £600.

Does your "lay" like being referred to in such terms?

And I think you need two because hard water decreases the detergent's cleaning efficiency, so you need more, rather than two protect the machine.

Normally it would be "latest". typo