• JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Oddly enough, last year I used dish soap in the laundry for a few months without noticing, and nothing like this happened. I was surprised when I looked it up and saw this kind of thing as a common occurrence. Couldn’t believe I had picked up this container each weekend for months without noticing the picture of plates and glasses on the front.

      I understand now these soaps are quite different from one another and the fact nothing happened to me is a fluke, so definitely don’t do this on purpose.

      • invertedspear@lemm.ee
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        Were you using dish soap like what gets bubbly in your sink? Or dishwasher detergent which does not get bubbly. Dishwasher detergent will probably be fine in a washing machine, same as your dish washer because it’s not supposed to foam up. But the soap you use in your sink will have terrible consequences in either a dish washer or washing machine.

      • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Related: I do not recommend pouring dish soap in the jet dry/rinse aid port of your dishwasher. It’s… Something special. (And you need to rinse that reservoir really well after that.)

  • mad_asshatter@lemmy.world
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    Far too much detergent. Liquid detergent should be 2 or 3 TABLESPOONS, and powder, perhaps 1/3c.

    Look into:

    1. Laundry stripping
    2. Using Borax/Washing Soda instead of the name brand garbage.
    3. Fabric softeners, et al, suck. Use vinegar.
    • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
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      This is a result of a number of factors more than likely. Root cause is a bad detergent/soap to water ratio, which can be caused by putting too much in or unexpectedly soft water (people who are used to putting hard-water amounts of soap into washing machine loads who suddenly move somewhere with super soft water will often do this once or twice before dialing it back), but a contributing factor here is likely that the drain line that the hose is dumping into is partially clogged, so the suds are having a chance to backflow up past the hose instead of staying with the flow of the water, or the wrong type of soap is used as was mentioned above.

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        that the drain line that the hose is dumping into is partially clogged

        That’d be my thought, or even that the hose isn’t tightly pushed into the drain.

  • caboose2006
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    1 month ago

    Are you at my apartment lol. As long as your apartment is t downstairs I wouldn’t worry about it.