
BLEACH WASH HOW TO
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BLEACH WASH SERIES
One deep fill rinse combined with a series of spray rinses is enough to completely remove any bleach from a standard clothes washer. This is usually followed by a spray rinse, where the washer spins and drains at the same time clean water is sprayed into the machine to provide additional rinsing of detergent, soil and bleach from the load. Where high-efficiency clothes washers have multiple rinse cycles, standard clothes washers sometimes have just one deep fill rinse cycle.
BLEACH WASH FREE
Spray rinses help keep standard washers free of bleach By the time the wash cycle is complete, the interior surfaces of the clothes washer have no remaining residual bleach.

By the time the bleaching portion of the cycle has completed and the washer has drained away detergent and bleach, spun to extract wash water, and refilled with rinse water, the bleach concentration has been substantially reduced.īleach continues to break down during each additional rinse cycle, all while being further diluted and rinsed away as additional clean water is added during successive rinse cycles. Once bleach is added to the wash water, it quickly breaks down into salt and water as it interacts with soils and stains in the laundry. Adding too much bleach can cause the dispenser to add the bleach too early. To make sure your bleach dispenser doesn’t add the bleach at the wrong time, make sure your washer is level, and fill the dispenser only to the “max fill” line. This ensures that bleach doesn’t carry over to the next load. All the bleach goes into the washer, and no bleach residue is left behind in the dispenser. When it’s time to add the bleach, the compartment holding the bleach is flushed with water. Properly loading the washer by following the instructions in the Use and Care Guide prevents this.īleach dispensers automatically add the bleach to the wash water at a preset time in the cycle. If it senses this, it will only spin at a low speed, extracting less water and rinsing less efficiently.

When the washer attempts to increase the spin speed as part of normal cycle function, it checks to see if the load is off balance.

High-efficiency clothes washers use multiple low-volume rinses and high-speed spin cycles to remove detergent. Make sure your washer is level so it works properly. An off-level clothes washer can also dispense bleach at the wrong time. A clothes washer that isn’t level has a harder time spinning at a high enough speed to extract the water (and detergent, soil and any residual bleach) before the cycle is complete.
