Help with my washing machine

MoSiAc

I have a Japanese washing machine, that washes and does a spin dry of the clothes. It also has a lint filter that catches a lot of the lint, but some still gets left on my clothes. I'm wondering if maybe I'm washing too much clothing at once, or I just have a lot of lint? Or should I just get a lint roller and go over my clothes after I wash them (seems a bit tedious)?

DrFrylock

If you use dryer sheets a lot, the lint filter can get clogged up with a nigh-invisible buildup of dryer-sheet residue that prevents air from flowing through smoothly. If you run water through your lint filter and a lot of it catches, you might have an issue. Give your lint filter a good wash & scrub with a brush and see if that helps.

MoSiAc

Forgot to mention there is no dryer, its just a washing machine that does a semi dry job. I"ll try what you said though.

fuelish

This can happen when you wash a towel(or other linty item) with your darks. This is according to my wife. She says to seperate your laundry into the correct piles and wash them only with like items.

MoSiAc

Yeah sometimes I get a bit lazy and throw hoodies in with like my dress pants, same color but different type. I"ll try working for a bit more organized piles.

Snake

fuelish wrote: »

This can happen when you wash a towel(or other linty item) with your darks. This is according to my wife. She says to seperate your laundry into the correct piles and wash them only with like items.

I don't think I follow on this one. Regardless of what you was the towels (for example) with, they are being washed in the same washing machine. How would washing like items together reduce the amount of lint if the same quantity of items is being washed regardless?

Unless you're just parroting wife logic. I can definitely understand the "Hey, I'm just repeating what she said. I didn't say it made sense" sentiment.

Agrehond

You are cleaning the lint trap after each load, right?

EggyToast

Snake wrote: »

fuelish wrote: »

This can happen when you wash a towel(or other linty item) with your darks. This is according to my wife. She says to seperate your laundry into the correct piles and wash them only with like items.

I don't think I follow on this one. Regardless of what you was the towels (for example) with, they are being washed in the same washing machine. How would washing like items together reduce the amount of lint if the same quantity of items is being washed regardless?

Unless you're just parroting wife logic. I can definitely understand the "Hey, I'm just repeating what she said. I didn't say it made sense" sentiment.

That's definitely more OCD than fact. I wash linty towels with corduroy pants and dress shirts, all in the same load. No lint, no color bleeding, everything's fine. Maybe if you live with a family of 4+ that actually could fill up a pile of "like" in a regular week, sure, might as well, but it's not practical for most people (and not necessary unless you're washing reds or heavily dyed things).

To the OP, the linty stuff would normally come off in a heated tumble dry, so that's essentially the problem. Since your washing machine does a quick spin-dry but doesn't tumble anything, you're kind of stuck picking out the linty stuff and washing them separately. If

The Cat

clean the lint trap, don't wash towelly things with non-towelly things, and proper clothes dryers get rid of the lint real good so long as you're okay with spraying CO2 everywhere :P I figure if you're in an apartment you don't have much room to hang things up anyway, so you may as well invest.

Zeon

Snake wrote: »

fuelish wrote: »

This can happen when you wash a towel(or other linty item) with your darks. This is according to my wife. She says to seperate your laundry into the correct piles and wash them only with like items.

I don't think I follow on this one. Regardless of what you was the towels (for example) with, they are being washed in the same washing machine. How would washing like items together reduce the amount of lint if the same quantity of items is being washed regardless?

Unless you're just parroting wife logic. I can definitely understand the "Hey, I'm just repeating what she said. I didn't say it made sense" sentiment.

No, washing regular clothes with towels will leave a lot of lint on them, especially if theyre contrasting colors, like white towels with black clothes.

I dont know the science behind it but i imagine its because towels have a lot more loose fibers than a regular peice of clothing and the washing cycle rips them free a lot easier than say, from a pair of dress pants or a cotton shirt. And then the washing cycle beats those fibers into the clothes so its a lot more apparent and harder to get rid of.

Blake T

Really wash non linty things - Shirts seperately to the linty things - Socks/Towels.

Things like underwear and some jeans don't matter if they get lint on them as you really can't see it. So stick them in whatever load you have room for. I find with the exception of brand new red clothes I really don't get much bleeding.

Josiah_9

I am an appliance tech, and your washing machine is never going to produce more lint. Lint level will be dictated by the amount and quality of metrial in your washer.