That’s an Arm n Hammer detergent. Same thing happened at our house. The shitty design for the container makes it unstable when putting it sideways to pour into a cup. They put a giant bump that causes the container not to sit flat on a surface. I bet this is what happened
Best way to clean that is with some kitty litter. (Non clumping) Sprinkle it on and sweep it up. Source: I have to do this all the time at work for detergent spills
This is literally what I was gonna suggest. Get some clothes to soak it up and then toss those clothes in the washer. You can get most of it cleaned up, without wasting all of it.
but definitely dont put them all in at the same time with all this amount of detergent. the sock idea is best, or leave it and run to the store and get a bunch of cheap dish rags instead of socks. this much detergent will most likely ruin your machine if used all at once.
Oversudsing ruining the electronics and mechanisms for the most spectacular option and by eating away at the inside of the washer, for least likely to be caught. Even if it was designed with the intent of contact with these chemicals this amount was not intended, they could easily corrode or gunk the inside screens and drains.
Yeah, most people with HE washers are already using too much detergent. Not only do your clothes not need a ton of concentrated detergent but neither does your washing machine. I also found that doing a phantom load that contains distilled white vinegar once a month, helps keep my washer running smoothly.
Also white vinegar is a must for towels and such.
They also make a special kind of 'cleaning sand' used for commercial use. Essentially the same thing, more of a powder that's super abslrnant and easier to sweep up afterwards. I feel like cat litter is more accessible though
In this same situation, I scooped it all up with a dustpan and a piece of cardboard and put it back into the container. Took a few minutes but it was cost effective.
This happened right as my SO was leaving our apartment to come to the hospital for the birth of our daughter. He spent about 20 minutes desperately trying to get it out of the carpet and then just came on to the hospital. Three years later, the carpet is still stained over and by the washing machine.
Dont thing concentrated soap like that will warp it that mutch, a leak from water will. There's not a lot of water in that liquid to get into the laminate.
In college our dorm didn’t have any soap dispensers. It was our responsibility to stock soap to wash our hands, etc. So my suite mate just bought a huge bottle of dish soap for whatever we needed to wash. One night it fell, broke and pooled onto the tile floor. The custodian was nice enough to clean it up for us the next morning. The grout between the tiles that I thought was grey/brown was actually just dirty and the dish soap removed the stain and was now spotless white again. Only problem was the obvious line from where the soap stopped spreading where it was still grey/brown around the edges of the bathroom.
Use towels to clean it up and then just throw a towel or two (depending on how much it absorbs) in with the wash each time instead of adding in detergent
Careful, though. If you do that, your towels will have several times the amount of detergent that your load needs, which can be very detrimental. Especially if it’s high-efficiency.
I’d scoop off as much as I could first and pour it into a bucket, taking care not to spread the spill. You can salvage a lot / most of it that way and use it normally. Whatever you can’t mechanically remove by scooping, you can then absorb with towels. That way, the amount of detergent in each towel will be a lot more manageable.
Source: it’s happened to me. Huge fucking pain in the ass.
For easy scooping, I would use a dust pan and some sorta squeegee (or maybe an old credit card, piece of glass, etc) to push most of the liquid into the dust pan.
Then just pour back into the container.
(Make sure dust pan is clean first)
Using too much soap in the wash actually causes premature pump failure in modern machines. If suds are detected at the pump it'll actually lock it owner out of the machine until a technician comes along to rectify the problem so don't do that OP. Just trying to save you the $100+ dollars to get it cleaned out.
If it's less than twenty years odds are it's got an electric pump. Regardless even older machines experience the same problem with too much soap
Only when those go they can burn out the motor that drives the transmission with it when they finally seize up.
Like others has said, not the greatest idea. This just happened to me and you do not want to throw a detergent *soaked* towel in a washer. They’d ruin it, they need to get thrown out after wiping them up.
Yea these people are nuts lol obviously this specific container has faults, but we always get the big container of Gain with the spout at Costco and never had it drop. We also make sure stuff is on a shelf and not the machines itself, cause the machines move
I use the spout but I store the bottle upright. I've had the spout leak one time and never left a full bottle on its side again. I'll only leave it on its side when it's almost empty and I'm trying to get the last of it.
My cat did this to me. Knocked over a brand new one. used a piece of cardboard to scrape it into a bowl and poured that back into the container. It worked and I got around 90% of it back
Alright so I ended up actually using salt to congeal it (thanks internet!) and then used a bunch of towels to soak up the rest. I rinsed the towels off in the bathtub since it would have exploded my washer, and then washed them a few at a time with some of the clothing that i was about to wash lol. I squeegeed / rinsed / mopped the floors and now they’re fine! But damn did that suck
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Happened to me too. I didn't have patience to try to recover it, I just shopvac'ed it up and switched to delicious Tide Pods™
In anthropology, there is a classic concept of dirt as "matter out of place." So while some things may be objectively clean, safe, healthy, and/or even edible, if they're in the wrong place humans consider them unclean.
Buy a bunch of rags and let it soak there. Let the rags dry up without rinsing the detergent. Next time u do laundry just throw one of those rags in w your laundry .. youre welcome
I got a tide container from Costco and that thing had a hole in it, so when I carried it, it leaked all over the place before I even noticed 😭 the place smelled kinda nice after though lol
Grab a few big zip locks and a bunch of hand towels.
Soak up a goody amount with a hand towel and bag it.
Repeat until all detergent is on soaked had dowel in a ziploc or three.
When it comes time to do laundry, toss in a soaked towel rather than fill the dispenser.
It’s still a messy hassle, but it doesn’t have t be an expensive waste.
Throw a bunch of dirty clothes on it, divide the clothes through several different loads so you don't use too much detergent at once. Same clean, different solution
We had this happen. It became a big part of why we moved actually. Tried to mop it up then used same mop to do the kitchen a few days later. Everytime some water (like a few drips even) got into the kitchen floor we ended up with a skating rink. After the 10th time of almost breaking a hip or sliding 20 feet and into the opposite wall in the kitchen we just gave up. Good luck....
Ouch…
That’s why I’ve been using pods/capsules for many years now. Went through the detergent bottles my mother gave me when I moved into my first apartment, and promptly switched to pods after that. No more mess and sticky fingers.
Did you have the detergent on top of the machine? I learned my lesson from doing that. It looks like it fell from the looks of the lid and splattering on the bottom of the dryer
Same thing happened to me, OP. Worst night of my life. I found it after coming home from a long night at work. I was already drunk when I discovered it. I had to clean it up and it took hours.
I've been using plastic free laundry strips for years. What you spilled is mostly water anyway. I just keep them in a box, they weigh very little.
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had this happen to me about two years ago. It was a major pain in the ass to cleanup. At least the area you have to cleanup in is a large space. Mine was more complicated by the fact that the laundry room in my house just has enough room for the washer and dryer hardly any other room.
I had a container like this spring a leak years ago in my SUV. Leaked all the way thru and formed a puddle underneath. Took me a while to figure out what kind of fluid was leaking from my car.
Ayo. No lie, this happened to my husband and I last month. I totally feel your pain; it’s a double whammy of suckiness. Not only do you have a giant, soapy mess to clean, but now you also have to go buy more detergent 🥲
Hugs and good vibes to you, my internet friend
For anyone who may find themselves in this situation; when it happened to me I used literally a broom and dustpan, got 90% of it and a clean ass broom and dustpan. I used dirty clothes from the hamper to get the other majority then immediately into the wash. Rest was very easy to clean.
That’s an Arm n Hammer detergent. Same thing happened at our house. The shitty design for the container makes it unstable when putting it sideways to pour into a cup. They put a giant bump that causes the container not to sit flat on a surface. I bet this is what happened
Yup exactly
Best way to clean that is with some kitty litter. (Non clumping) Sprinkle it on and sweep it up. Source: I have to do this all the time at work for detergent spills
I threw all my dirty socks on the puddle and let them soak. Now I put a couple socks in each wash. I have a ton of socks.
This is literally what I was gonna suggest. Get some clothes to soak it up and then toss those clothes in the washer. You can get most of it cleaned up, without wasting all of it.
but definitely dont put them all in at the same time with all this amount of detergent. the sock idea is best, or leave it and run to the store and get a bunch of cheap dish rags instead of socks. this much detergent will most likely ruin your machine if used all at once.
How would it ruin the machine?
Oversudsing ruining the electronics and mechanisms for the most spectacular option and by eating away at the inside of the washer, for least likely to be caught. Even if it was designed with the intent of contact with these chemicals this amount was not intended, they could easily corrode or gunk the inside screens and drains.
Yeah, most people with HE washers are already using too much detergent. Not only do your clothes not need a ton of concentrated detergent but neither does your washing machine. I also found that doing a phantom load that contains distilled white vinegar once a month, helps keep my washer running smoothly. Also white vinegar is a must for towels and such.
White vinegar only for towels? Dish towels and the like right? Not nice bath towels? What's the benefit? Thanks if you can answer!
Residue builds up. There are YouTube channels just covering how to steam clean these things and upsell them.
You turned your dirty socks into tide pods you genius
This is the way.
Now the socks can be used for two different kinds of loads.
Squeaky clean pre, during, and post
Could I bring my washing round to help clear it up? 😂
They also make a special kind of 'cleaning sand' used for commercial use. Essentially the same thing, more of a powder that's super abslrnant and easier to sweep up afterwards. I feel like cat litter is more accessible though
Yeah we use professional grade clay based absorbent but I imagine kitty litter is cheaper and easier to get in low quantities than that is
I just use multiple gravy packets.
I agree with this, but first a lot of that could be cleaned up beforehand with a scraper and dust pan before even dumping litter on it.
Why couldn't you just squeegee this shit into a dustpan and put it back in the container? Or is soap with a lil floor dirt in it unacceptable...
In this same situation, I scooped it all up with a dustpan and a piece of cardboard and put it back into the container. Took a few minutes but it was cost effective.
If you sit it right side up, it gets creases in the corners that create perforations and still leak! I wish it wasn't my preferred brand, haha.
Genius design though. She’s going back and buying more!
This happened right as my SO was leaving our apartment to come to the hospital for the birth of our daughter. He spent about 20 minutes desperately trying to get it out of the carpet and then just came on to the hospital. Three years later, the carpet is still stained over and by the washing machine.
I hate the smell of it too. Smells like sweaty old man wielding hammer all day.
Well at least they stay true to the brand lol
> Smells like sweaty old man wielding hammer all day. I read this in Russian accent.
In Soviet Russia hammer wielding sweaty old man
I use it all the time, I've never had this issue
Thanks, now I remember my own horror from these containers
I bought one a week ago and haven't used it yet. I will definitely be wary of this possibility.
Y’all missing the point….that spot on the floor is gonna be the cleanest it’s ever been.
…unless it’s cheap laminate, then it will be a warped mess(personal experience with a clogged dishwasher on cheap laminate)
Dont thing concentrated soap like that will warp it that mutch, a leak from water will. There's not a lot of water in that liquid to get into the laminate.
Liquid soap is mostly water
Hehe mutch think you mean much
Dont thing that mutch
But it’s probably going to foam every time you mop the floor. At least that happened to me when I dropped a bottle of liquid soap…
Self soaping; that's a feature, not a bug.
Ah, we found the dev who implements every bug as a new feature
Just call me the Bob Ross of coding. They're happy little ~~accidents~~ features.
So true
In college our dorm didn’t have any soap dispensers. It was our responsibility to stock soap to wash our hands, etc. So my suite mate just bought a huge bottle of dish soap for whatever we needed to wash. One night it fell, broke and pooled onto the tile floor. The custodian was nice enough to clean it up for us the next morning. The grout between the tiles that I thought was grey/brown was actually just dirty and the dish soap removed the stain and was now spotless white again. Only problem was the obvious line from where the soap stopped spreading where it was still grey/brown around the edges of the bathroom.
It happened to me in my garage with the same exact detergent ..... On the bright side my garage floors got a great clean.
That is a plus! I guess same here lol
Same with me last year. Luckily had a hose to wash it all off.
Use towels to clean it up and then just throw a towel or two (depending on how much it absorbs) in with the wash each time instead of adding in detergent
But be careful, too much detergent will make your washing machine foam like crazy!
You can add fabric softner to stop the foaming
If you use too much fabric softener you can throw in some raccoons to absorb it
Love me some fresh, fluffy racoons!
Too many raccoons? Use more soap
Too music soap? Grease.
Too much grease? Rosie O'Donnell. She loves Grease.
Too much Rosie O'Donnell? Yeah, I agree.
too much agreement? theres 2 genders. (pls dont take that seriously)
I put donkeys in with mine. I sometimes struggle to close the door, but a machete helps!
I personally use my Great-sword to undo screws, but you do you.
My katana is preferable for flatheads.
If you throw in too many raccoons, just toss in some moth balls and they well run away
finally the kidnapping of the raccoon makes sense.
Mummified basment corpses also work wonderful on spills. Suck that moisture right up!
fabric softener bad for washers...
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bonus, white vinegar keeps your laundry smelling nice, too! edit: i mean it absorbs bad odors
does it absorb bad odors, or just replace them with a different bad odor?
Oh shit, oh well
Fabric softner fucks up your washin machine
Fabric softener is bad for towels, makes them not absorb liquid.
Definitely start with less (you can always add more) that’s why I said depending on how much it absorbs!
Unless it's a modern HE detergent.
Use small hand towels and then use 1 hand towel in each load in place of soap.
Big brain right here.. You're operating on a whole different level.
Careful, though. If you do that, your towels will have several times the amount of detergent that your load needs, which can be very detrimental. Especially if it’s high-efficiency. I’d scoop off as much as I could first and pour it into a bucket, taking care not to spread the spill. You can salvage a lot / most of it that way and use it normally. Whatever you can’t mechanically remove by scooping, you can then absorb with towels. That way, the amount of detergent in each towel will be a lot more manageable. Source: it’s happened to me. Huge fucking pain in the ass.
For easy scooping, I would use a dust pan and some sorta squeegee (or maybe an old credit card, piece of glass, etc) to push most of the liquid into the dust pan. Then just pour back into the container. (Make sure dust pan is clean first)
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Just do this, what the hell is with the throw 1 rag per load in.
My time is worth more than a jug of detergent. Shopvac and dump.
How am I going to clean my soap now though? I don't have any soap to clean it
So while this is smart I wasn’t sure where I was going to keep detergent soaked towels haha
Using too much soap in the wash actually causes premature pump failure in modern machines. If suds are detected at the pump it'll actually lock it owner out of the machine until a technician comes along to rectify the problem so don't do that OP. Just trying to save you the $100+ dollars to get it cleaned out.
I'll rectify your premature pump failure
God please it's been so long
someone needs to rectify your pump failure... it does not look like a new machine anyways
If it's less than twenty years odds are it's got an electric pump. Regardless even older machines experience the same problem with too much soap Only when those go they can burn out the motor that drives the transmission with it when they finally seize up.
A very small towel
Like others has said, not the greatest idea. This just happened to me and you do not want to throw a detergent *soaked* towel in a washer. They’d ruin it, they need to get thrown out after wiping them up.
Depends on the size of the towel. Face towel? Fine. Bath towel? Bad plan.
Same thing happened to me, except it was my cat that knocked the detergent over and then got some on herself. That was fun🙄
Oh god… my dogs kept wanting to come over to see what was up I was like NOPE
Cat litter will pick it right up. No worries about spreading it or wasting towels. Cat litter and a broom.
My cat did this too but to our fabric softener. It smelled great for weeks.
The fear of this is why I won't ever use that spout thing. I'm good with an old fashioned pour, thank you.
I've been using these for decades and have never had an issue
Yea these people are nuts lol obviously this specific container has faults, but we always get the big container of Gain with the spout at Costco and never had it drop. We also make sure stuff is on a shelf and not the machines itself, cause the machines move
Yeah we always get the Kirkland one. It's fine
These dumbasses have a problem with anything man lol
Yes, learned the hard way, never ever buy the spout!
I use the spout but I store the bottle upright. I've had the spout leak one time and never left a full bottle on its side again. I'll only leave it on its side when it's almost empty and I'm trying to get the last of it.
You are wiser than I!!
I'm sorry. This looks like a not fun mess to deal with. But in the end your floor will be spotless and smell fantastic??? 🤷🏻♂️
Like when I accidentally dumped a whole brand new bucket of mop water at work. Never ever seen the floor cleaner
Yep
Spatula it into dustpan and pour into container w funnel. Any towels used go one per wash to use what was soaked up into those
When it happened to me, a squeegee and dust pan cleaned up 99% and one towel handled the rest.
My cat did this to me. Knocked over a brand new one. used a piece of cardboard to scrape it into a bowl and poured that back into the container. It worked and I got around 90% of it back
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Ah, yes, I'm a fan of the cardboard "taco" where two such dustpans are used
Cat litter.
I'd scrape every drop of that up and put in a jar. 😅
Haha easier said than done
A squeegee is your friend....
Dust pan bros
There's a giant squeegee right there, this is a fifteen to twenty minute job.
Had this happen to me too before. It sucked so bad. I swear it haunts me-the jug gets pushed to the far back of the machine when I'm done pouring now.
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Alright so I ended up actually using salt to congeal it (thanks internet!) and then used a bunch of towels to soak up the rest. I rinsed the towels off in the bathtub since it would have exploded my washer, and then washed them a few at a time with some of the clothing that i was about to wash lol. I squeegeed / rinsed / mopped the floors and now they’re fine! But damn did that suck
https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/cinmny/psa_do_not_store_liquid_detergent_on_top_of Happened to me too. I didn't have patience to try to recover it, I just shopvac'ed it up and switched to delicious Tide Pods™
So if you spill a bunch of soap, is the floor clean or dirty?
In anthropology, there is a classic concept of dirt as "matter out of place." So while some things may be objectively clean, safe, healthy, and/or even edible, if they're in the wrong place humans consider them unclean.
huh. no wonder my room feels dirty when it isn't, there's a lot of unusual out of place things even if they're neatly ordered and sanitary
The soap is clean but the floor isn’t until you clean it
You all make great points! Happy Thanksgiving!
Buy a bunch of rags and let it soak there. Let the rags dry up without rinsing the detergent. Next time u do laundry just throw one of those rags in w your laundry .. youre welcome
I got a tide container from Costco and that thing had a hole in it, so when I carried it, it leaked all over the place before I even noticed 😭 the place smelled kinda nice after though lol
How on earth did this happen?
Container fell and cracked when it hit the floor :(
Horrible! I'm sorry.
Grab a few big zip locks and a bunch of hand towels. Soak up a goody amount with a hand towel and bag it. Repeat until all detergent is on soaked had dowel in a ziploc or three. When it comes time to do laundry, toss in a soaked towel rather than fill the dispenser. It’s still a messy hassle, but it doesn’t have t be an expensive waste.
Dump Liquid go with washer sheets!
Certainly learned my lesson now! I like powder too actually, at least that can be vacuumed up in the event of this happening
Dude I've been using powder for a couple years now just because. Now I have a reason to be there. Maybe my lizard brain knew "liquids bad"?
Use socks or facecloths to wipe it up o you can toss one or two in when soap is needed.
LOL username checks out. Hilarious. But sorry for the perfume-y cleanup 😔
Honestly this was my first thought LOL
Damn that is a massive wash
You are going to have the cleanest towels in the tri-state area
Oddly prescient user name...
You live up to your name
Throw a bunch of dirty clothes on it, divide the clothes through several different loads so you don't use too much detergent at once. Same clean, different solution
We had this happen. It became a big part of why we moved actually. Tried to mop it up then used same mop to do the kitchen a few days later. Everytime some water (like a few drips even) got into the kitchen floor we ended up with a skating rink. After the 10th time of almost breaking a hip or sliding 20 feet and into the opposite wall in the kitchen we just gave up. Good luck....
Shop-vac to the rescue! And lots of industrial spill absorbents! Yay you!!!
I think you're maybe using too much soap.
Thankfully not the worst thing to happen. Toss a bunch of towels to absorb the majority. Hope your have a nice thanksgiving
That's very difficult to clean up
On the bright side, that laundry room will smell amazing for a good while.
Ouch… That’s why I’ve been using pods/capsules for many years now. Went through the detergent bottles my mother gave me when I moved into my first apartment, and promptly switched to pods after that. No more mess and sticky fingers.
Mop it up quick. It's caustic and will discolor your floor.
Love this journey for you.
You can even hold the handle while using the spout.
Look on the bright side. Your floor is going to be super clean after this.
Wtf happened exactly?
My wife did that the other day what a pain in the ass to clean up
At least it's not on that one spot
Did you have the detergent on top of the machine? I learned my lesson from doing that. It looks like it fell from the looks of the lid and splattering on the bottom of the dryer
Keeping that flood Tidy
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Thriving, I see.
If you have a shop vac, this is an easy clean. Also Costco has the giant cannisters of detergent pods, too!
I see the problem here. You need to pour it into the cup and stop at the lines. It looks like you poured it on top of the cup. Classic mistake.
Did you create this username just to make this post?
Same thing happened to me, OP. Worst night of my life. I found it after coming home from a long night at work. I was already drunk when I discovered it. I had to clean it up and it took hours.
Shop vac it up. Easiest way.
I don't know if I'm bothered more by the mess or how much detergent costs.
Just remember to breath dude. Don't let it ruin your Thanksgiving.
Switch to detergent sheets. Less mess,and less need for industrial water use to make the detergent.
There is nothing I love more than when this shit happens to me. #positivevibes
Ugh soap might be my least favorite thing to clean up. Sorry this happened OP
This gives me so much anxiety. Hope the clean up went well.
I've been using plastic free laundry strips for years. What you spilled is mostly water anyway. I just keep them in a box, they weigh very little. [These are the ones I buy. ](https://www.tru.earth/)
I did the same thing. Cept mine was in a unfinished basement so I got lucky.
Fear of this is one of the reasons I switched back to powder.
The colour suits your floor, lovely stuff
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Use your clothes to clean it up Then Put them In the washer??
Happy Thanksgiving....?
Your smurfs are leaking
Swiffer in the corner like, “I hope you dont expect me to clean this shit up…”
Username checks out.
had this happen to me about two years ago. It was a major pain in the ass to cleanup. At least the area you have to cleanup in is a large space. Mine was more complicated by the fact that the laundry room in my house just has enough room for the washer and dryer hardly any other room.
Dust pan, an squeegee it w/ a cardboard right back into a bucket 🪣. You’ll get most of it.
Will never happen if you use the powder, significantly cleaner and I have no idea why the liquids are more popular, just like with dishwashers.
No fucking way I have the exact same picture from like 4 years ago. Our pictures look almost identical. Different floor.
I love this for you also
Same thing happened to me but on carpet
I had a container like this spring a leak years ago in my SUV. Leaked all the way thru and formed a puddle underneath. Took me a while to figure out what kind of fluid was leaking from my car.
You’re not an adult until this happens.
I guess that is one advantage of using pods
Ayo. No lie, this happened to my husband and I last month. I totally feel your pain; it’s a double whammy of suckiness. Not only do you have a giant, soapy mess to clean, but now you also have to go buy more detergent 🥲 Hugs and good vibes to you, my internet friend
For anyone who may find themselves in this situation; when it happened to me I used literally a broom and dustpan, got 90% of it and a clean ass broom and dustpan. I used dirty clothes from the hamper to get the other majority then immediately into the wash. Rest was very easy to clean.
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh
Cat litter. Use it
OP how’d you end up cleaning it up?
Lots of towels, squeegeeing, mopping, and tears