Maintenance And Cleaning; Cleaning The Detergent Drawer - Blomberg WNF 8447 ACE50 Mode D'emploi

5 Maintenance and cleaning

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

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.
Press the dotted point on the siphon in the softener
compartment and pull towards you until the compartment is
removed from the machine.
If more than normal amount of water and softener
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mixture starts to gather in the softener compartment,
the siphon must be cleaned.
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. Insert the drawer back
into its place after cleaning and make sure that it is seated
well.
If your detergent drawer is the one indicated in the following
figure:
Lift the rear part of the siphon to remove it as
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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.
Cleaning the water intake filters
There is a filter at the end of each water intake valve at the
rear of the machine and also at the end of each water intake
hose where they are connected to the tap. These filters
prevent foreign substances and dirt in the water to enter the
washing machine. Filters should be cleaned as they do get
dirty.
Close the taps. Remove the nuts of the water intake hoses
to access the filters on the water intake valves. Clean them
with an appropriate brush. If the filters are too dirty, take them
out by means of pliers and clean them. Take out the filters
on the flat ends of the water intake hoses together with the
gaskets and clean thoroughly under running water. Replace
the gaskets and filters carefully in their places and tighten the
hose nuts by hand.
Draining remaining water and
cleaning the pump filter
The filter system in your machine prevents solid items such
as buttons, coins and fabric fibers clogging the pump impeller
during discharge of washing water. Thus, the water will be
discharged without any problem and the service life of the
pump will extend.
If the machine fails to drain water, the pump filter is clogged.
Filter must be cleaned whenever it is clogged or in every 3
months. Water must be drained off first to clean the pump
filter.
In addition, prior to transporting the machine (eg., when
moving to another house) and in case of freezing of the water,
water may have to be drained completely.
Foreign substances left in the pump filter may damage
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your machine or may cause noise problem.
In order to clean the dirty filter and discharge the water:
Unplug the machine to cut off the supply power.
Temperature of the water inside the machine may rise
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up to 90 ºC. To avoid burning risk, filter must be cleaned
after the water in the machine cools down.
Open the filter cap.
If the filter cap is composed of two pieces, press the
tab on the filter cap downwards and pull the piece out
towards yourself.
If the filter cap is one piece, pull the cap from both sides at the
top to open.
You can remove the filter cover by slightly pushing
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downwards with a thin plastic tipped tool, through the
gap above the filter cover. Do not use metal tipped tools
to remove the cover.
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