Make sure any detergent/addittive used is HE compliant. This means baby washing and delicate detergents. How much detergent for each load? Use as little of it as you can get away with! This depends on the hardness of your water and the soil in your clothing. If you draw Vancouver city water (some of the…

Use laundry bags. Especially for bras with underwires and anything else that has little metal/plastic pieces that may come loose in there. Otherwise things get loose and clog up the pump or other parts.

A number of people break the machine with a bath mat or large blanket etc. If in doubt, take it out (to a Laundromat).

Clothing damage can be seen in the amount of lint in your dryer. Also if your washer doesn’t have a lint filter that you manually clean, the lint goes down the drain. This is usually safe for both city sewers and septic systems. Remember some fabric wear occurs when we are wearing the clothes.

Never overload, especially with heavy items (most full size machines max out at 3-4 large bath towels. Never under-load either. In order to be balanced there must be enough material to cover the spin basket all the way around. For example if only one sheet cold be fine because its so large, but one bath towel…