Limescale....HELP!!

Yes we emptied the lint trap thingy. I can now report however that since my vinegar/baking soda cleaning a week ago my machine funk is back and its full force. It smells WORSE now if you can believe that. It has a rotten cabbage smell now. Frank thinks its possibly the rubber seal it is gonna replace it. If that doesnt work Im honestly gonna get another machine OR hire Lia as our "laundress" 

At your service!   

OK, this is going to sound REALLY REALLY LAME, so forgive me all of you.... Do all dryers have a lint trap? Even the washer/dryer combo machines? Cause I've never noticed one on mine and the instruction book is gone (rented house with a fitted kitchen - god only knows where the booklet ended up!) Hmmm... maybe I'll have to go investigate a bit further. Hell, I only found the salt thingy on my dishwasher about a month ago! LOL.

Yep, ours is a combo and the lint filter is on the front at the bottom under a little flap.  With ours you have to put a little bowl under it when you unscrew the filter because a little (and sometimes a lot - depending on how much fluff is in there) water always runs out. 

That salt thing on the dishwasher has always been mysterious to me.  I never remember putting salt in mine in the states. 

This is good to know.  I have a combo but have only used the dryer functionality once.  It took so long to dry the clothes and at the end of the of the cycle, I still had to hang them.  So my question is, should I worry about cleaning the filter if I only use the machine to wash my clothes?

bvamin

This is good to know.  I have a combo but have only used the dryer functionality once.  It took so long to dry the clothes and at the end of the of the cycle, I still had to hang them.  So my question is, should I worry about cleaning the filter if I only use the machine to wash my clothes?

bvamin

Ours is just a washer, and there's still a filter there, so I guess the answer would be yes....but I don't clean mine! 

Yes, bvamin, you should.  The filter is there to catch things that could clog the waste pipe (or so says the manual).  I cleaned mine last night and found 30 cents (Euro).

OK, for the life of me I CANNOT find a filter on ours.... I've looked EVERYWHERE! ACK.

get down on your hands and knees.  Is the very bottom bit a panel?  Does it come off? look for easily accesable screw things.   There should be something behind it that looks like a three or four inch diameter circle-that twists and pulls out.  I once found a t-shirt in ours.

Mine twists and drained some water out but I didn't try and pull it out.  I guess I should.  Bottom right hand corner, right above the floor Annie..  I had to pull part of the cabinet out of the way to get at mine.

Have you tried a can of coca cola before you  pour a can or two in the toilet leave it for a few hours and it should have shifted most of it if that does not work try some vinegar the brown stuff

PS am being serious about the coke