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This one is on behalf of a friend.
Problem is that a spurious bowl icon `with froth on top of it` crops-up which adds a life shattering 10 mins to the length of the programme which “is ruining her pampered life”, but my suggestion of a one way trip to a N Korean factory farm for 10 years` hard labour fell, as expected, on unfertile ground, no nail bars in Wonsan! ( Sarcasm ain`t dead yet! ). The icon apparently means over frothing but It does not do anything of the kind having tested it for her so it does not make a lot sense. I can tell you that there is nowt wrong with pump out, she NOW uses Tesco liquid but previously used Aldi`s and Lidl`s best efforts which are well known, least to me, to froth badly though she said she had never noticed it. When you put this machine on, empty of clothes, it fills to the right level starts to tumble and there is zero residue foam being formed. The valve by the way is just the standard type, so a double non flow monitored inlet valve. I`m at a bit of a loss here as it does not make sense. Anyone got any ideas please? Pressure Switch playing silly buggers perhaps or perhaps an undistributed load making froth? OR is it well known that this sometimes happens anyway?Everything in your post points to the same thing – overdosing on detergent. And this is proven by the fact that you see lots of foam, created by the film of leftover detergent residue that can be caused by overdosing.
Your best bet would be to first run a an empty boil wash (Cottons 90c) with a small amount of bleach in the drum with the Water Plus option selected. Repeat this cycle without bleach. I can’t emphasise enough how little bleach to put in, as it’s so easy to assume a dirty machine might need a lot to clean it out – but I once made the mistake of putting too much bleach into my machine and ended up with suds coming out the detergent drawer!
Advise your friend to look at the dosage measurements on the detergent and use half. I do this as I live in a soft water part of the country and my clothes always come out clean. I use Ariel biological powder which recommends to dose 65g of powder, so I just put in 35g – if I use the recommended dose, my Bosch machine usually shows the sudslock icon during rinses too. It’s all very well seeing lots of pretty white suds during the wash, but they aren’t very kind to modern machines.
If you can, try to get your friend to consider trying biological powder. Powder is so much better for washing machines than liquids, as it doesn’t leave a residue that builds up and causes mould issues. I’ve actually used Aldi’s biological powder myself and find it cleans clothes acceptably, particularly for the price. Again, I use half the recommended dose.
Yes. What occured to me was I think she is getting confused between maybe the past i.e. her foray using her past detergents and the present state of play. You wrote ” overdosing on detergent. And this is proven by the fact that you see lots of foam, created by the film of leftover detergent residue that can be caused by overdosing.” Which could have been true and is a good point. But like I said there isn`t any powder residue left in the machine because it does not appear to froth.
I will pass on your idea that she uses a biological powder Aldi`s or otherwise and see what happens.
Thanks for going to the trouble for the reply and I`ll see how things materialize over the weeks.
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