
cleaning and maintaining your washing machine _31
03 cleaning and maintaining
cleaning and maintaining your
washing machine
Keeping your washing machine clean improves its performance, wards off
unnecessary repairs, and lengthens its life.
This course is a self-cleaning course that removes mold that may occur inside the
washing machine.
1. Press the Power button.
2. Turn the Cycle Selector to the ECO Drum Clean course.
• You can only use the Delay End function.
• The water temperature during the ECO Drum Clean is
set to 70 ˚C.
Due to the features of the washing machine, the water
temperature is set to 70 ˚C during the Eco Drum Clean
cycle, but the display can only show 60 ˚C on the control panel.
You cannot change the temperature.
• It will auto set cotton 30 ˚C middle water level program when cloth is put in.
3. Place the appropriate amount of cleansing agent into the
detergent compartment
and close the detergent drawer
(when cleaning the drum using a cleansing agent).
• Be sure to use the recommended cleansing agent for
cleaning the drum.
• There are powder-type and liquid-type drum cleansing
agents. The liquid-type cleaning agent is only available
with liquid detergent box (option).
4. Press the Start/Pause button.
• If you press the Start/Pause button, the ECO Drum Clean course begins.
• UsingtheECODrumCleancourse,youcancleanthedrumwithoutusingacleansingagent.
• NeverusetheECODrumCleancoursewhenlaundryisinthewashingmachine.Thismay
result in damage to the texture or a problem with the washing machine.
• In the ECO Drum Clean course, never use normal detergent.
• Use only 1/10 of the amount of the drum cleansing agent recommended by the
cleansing agent manufacturer.
• Sinceusingachlorinebleachingagentmaydiscolourtheproduct,besuretouseonly
oxygen bleaching agents.
• Powder-typecleansingagent:Usea[powder-typebleachingagent]ora[cleansingagentfor
drumcleaningonly].
• Liquid-typecleansingagent:Usea[liquid-typeoxygenbleachingagent]ora[cleansingagent
fordrumcleaningonly].
• Ifthe“ECODrumClean”indicatoronthedisplayislitafterawash,itindicatesthattub(drum)
cleaning is required. In this case, remove the laundry from the washing machine, turn the
power on, and clean the drum by performing the ECO Drum Clean course.
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