Care And Cleaning; External Cleaning; Descaling; Maintenance Wash - John Lewis JLBIWD1405 User Manual

Care and cleaning

Warning! Refer to Safety
chapters.

External cleaning

Clean the appliance with mild soap and warm
water only. Fully dry all the surfaces.
Caution! Do not use alcohol,
solvents or chemical
products.
Caution! Do not clean the
metal surfaces with chlorine-
based detergent.

Descaling

If the water hardness in your area is
high or moderate, we recommend
that you use a water descaling
product for washing machines.
Regularly examine the drum to check for
limescale.
Regular detergents already contain water
softening agents, but we recommend to run a
cycle with an empty drum and a descaling
product occasionally.
Always follow the instructions that
you find on the packaging of the
product.

Maintenance wash

The repeated and prolonged use of low
temperature programmes can cause detergent
deposits, fluff residues, bacterial growth inside
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the drum and the tub. This could generate bad
odours and mildew. To eliminate these deposits
and clean the inner part of the appliance, run a
maintenance wash regularly (at least once a
month).
Refer to Cleaning the drum
chapter.

Door seal with double lip trap

This appliance is designed with a self cleaning
draining system, allowing light fluff fibers that
fall off the clothes to be drained out with the
water, in such a way that there is no need by the
customer to access this area for regular
maintenance and cleaning.
Regularly examine the seal and remove all
objects from the inner part. Coins, buttons,
other small items forgotten in the pockets of
your clothes are deposited during the washing
cycle in the special double lip trap in the
porthole seal, where they can be conveniently
recovered at the end of the cycle.

Cleaning the drum

Regularly examine the drum to prevent
unwanted deposits.
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