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title: "Washer seal and odor service"
description: "Electrolux washer seal and odor service — the complaint everybody has and nobody mentions until something else needs fixing."
url: "https://electroluxmiami.support/services/washer-door-seal-and-odor-service/"
date_modified: "2026-09-11"
Appliance type: "Washers"
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# Electrolux washer seal and odor service

### Mostly maintenance, and we will say so

A front loader seals tight, which is what lets it wash with so little water and also what traps the water it used. The gasket has a fold at the bottom that holds water, lint and detergent, and in a laundry closet at this humidity it is still damp when the next load goes in. Most of this is a cloth and a habit rather than a part, and we would rather tell you that than sell you a gasket you do not need.

What this involves

The fold in the gasket holds water, and here it never dries

Mostly maintenance — we will say so rather than sell a part

Where it is not, the sump or the drain hose is holding residue

Dry the fold and look inside it

Pull it open all the way round. What is in there explains the smell in about five seconds.

Run a maintenance cycle empty and hot

With the machine's own cleaning program where it has one, and nothing in the drum.

Check the sump and the drain hose if it persists

Residue sitting below the drum will re-seed the drum every wash, and no amount of cleaning the gasket reaches it.

### What actually fixes the smell?

Drying the fold after the last load, leaving the door ajar between washes, and running an occasional empty hot cycle. If it persists after that, residue is sitting in the sump below the drum where no amount of wiping reaches.

### Is the smell doing any harm?

To the machine, not much. To the laundry, yes — clothes coming out of a drum that smells will smell, and no amount of detergent covers it.

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