Dealing with black mold in your washing machine? Using chlorine detergent or bleach can work, but follow these steps for safety:
Materials: Chlorine detergent or bleach, rubber gloves, cleaning cloth or sponge.
- Wear rubber gloves for hand protection.
Ensure good ventilation (open windows or use exhaust fans) to avoid inhaling chlorine fumes.
- Empty the washing machine.
- Wipe the drum with a cloth soaked in chlorine detergent.
- Scrub the rubber seal with a chlorine solution.
- Run a cleaning cycle.
- Repeat as needed.
Don't mix chlorine bleach with other cleaners to avoid harmful fumes
We got our bleach and we got our safety gloves.
Before we did the procedure, the washing machine looks like this.
After 5 times of putting bleach and starting the machine for the longest time it has, your washing machine will turn into this.
