Maintenance And Cleaning; Cleaning The Detergent Drawer; Cleaning The Loading Door And The Drum - Defy DAW 376 User Manual

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Maintenance and cleaning

Service life of the product extends and frequently
faced problems decrease if cleaned at regular
intervals.

7.1 Cleaning the detergent drawer

Clean the detergent drawer at regular intervals
(every 4-5 washing cycles) as shown below
in order to prevent accumulation of powder
detergent in time.
1. Press the dotted point on the siphon in the
softener compartment and pull towards you
until the compartment is removed from the
machine.
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If more than normal amount of water and
softener mixture starts to gather in the
softener compartment, the siphon must be
cleaned.
2. Wash the detergent drawer and the siphon with
plenty of lukewarm water in a washbasin. Wear
protective gloves or use an appropriate brush
to avoid touching of the residues in the drawer
with your skin when cleaning.
3. Insert the drawer back into its place after
cleaning and make sure that it is seated well.
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If your detergent drawer is the one indicated in the
following figure:
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Lift the rear part of the siphon to remove it
as illustrated. After performing the above
mentioned cleaning procedures, replace
the siphon back to its seating and push its
front section downwards to make sure that
the locking tab engages.
7.2 Cleaning the loading
door and the drum
For products with drum cleaning programme,
please see Operating the product - Programmes.
For products without drum cleaning, follow the
below steps to clean the drum:
Select Additional Water or Extra Rinse auxiliary
functions. Use a Cottons programme without
pre-wash. Set the temperature to the level
recommended on the drum cleaning agent
which can be provided from authorised
services. Apply this procedure without any
laundry in the product. Before starting the
programme, put 1 pouch of special drum cleaning
agent (if the special agent could not be supplied,
put max. 100 g of powder anti-limescale) into the
main wash detergent compartment (compartment
no. "2"). If the anti-limescale is in tablet form, put
only one tablet into the main wash compartment
no. "2". Dry the inside of the bellow with a clean
piece of cloth after the programme has come to
an end.
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Repeat Drum Cleaning process in every 2
months.
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