If you mean your laundry sink, then mix 1 cup baking soda and 1 cup vinegar together and pour it into the drain. Let it sit in the drain for a few hours and then flush the drain with hot water. If you are tslking anout your washing machine you can buy a washing machine cleaner to get rid of the smell.
SOURCE: Mildew/Stagnant water smell in washer
you know, this does happen.
run it on a full cycle, warm, with either of these in solution.
baking soda, at 1/10 concentration
non chlorine bleach, at 1/6 concentration
you most likely need to do this more than once, until your nose is happy.
Also, consider doing this at least once every 200 wash cycles.
essential oils have same effect, and do a nice anti microbial as well.
we did this in commercial laundries all the time, as part of standard health code compliance issues.
SOURCE: Clothes smell musty like wet towels after washed and dried.
check your detergent you are using, it should be a HE detegrent for High Efficency machines, too much regular detergent will suds up and nver be removed from clothing causing such a smell.a quick test to see if your using too much detergent, grab a sock form oyour drawer(clean one) place it in a glass of water and swish it up and dowen a few times, if soapy bubble wateris present then youre over soaping!
SOURCE: washer smells bad
Whirlpool and Tide make a cleaner that you put into the washer and run it through a cycle. Front loaders get a build-up that cannot be cleaned by hand. Make sure you are using a detergent that is marked "HE". Do not overfill the detergent or softener cups. I've heard that other used a lot of bleach in a wash cycle to clear out the smell. Bleach is bad to use if you're on a septic system, though.
SOURCE: Maytag Neptune/ clothes smell like mildew
Go out and buy a box of "AFFRESH". Run it according to the directions.
SOURCE: Sour odor. Even though I take my clothes out right away.
The problem is that water sets in a filter area below the tub and sours, or smells like raw sewage. This is common on most front loaders, Whirlpool makes special tablets used in washer to take out the odor.
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