My Miele machine makes an awful smell, and it gets worse from maybe a day after using it. The smell takes over the whole house and gets to the back of your throat.
I seem to have tried everything - white distilled vinegar. countless hot washes at 95, water plus.
I've cleaned out the detergent drawer so it is spotless and i've cleaned inside the machine itself. I've also check my U bends, drains and opened the flap at the bottom off the machine and cleaned in there. Also i have a small flexible brush which I've used to clean out every hole/pipe in the machine i could find. Also I check the inlet filter and that wasn't blocked either
When I open the flap at the bottom of the machine and unscrew the cap, the water that comes out smell fairly bad, especially if it is a day or 2 since the machine was last used. It is sort of a musty smell, perhaps with a chemical hint to it. Also there are sometimes soap bubbles in there - should there be?
One mistake I know I made was t put the liquid detergent in the drawer rather than in the machine itself (i misread the manual), and that got quite messy a while back though it isn't blocked or anything. I live in a hard water area so I know that can't help and perhaps mean I should use water plus every quick wash from now onwards.
Like others I do have quite a lot of black deposits on the rubber parts of the machine, although I have cleaned them by hand quite a bit.
The machine is one of the top of the range Miele ones with the 10 year guarantee, so I'm pretty disappointed that it has performed so badly. I haven't called Miele out yet as I'm concerned they will somehow pretend it is my fault and charge me a fortune even though it is under warranty, so want to do absolutely everything I can myself.
I guess I need to switch to using powder next as that will perhaps dissolve better than liquid, I have already switched back to biological liquid from no bio although it hasn't helped much. Also I was going to buy a brush to use on the outlet hose to try to clean that, though not sure where to get such a thing from? Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
thanks