I was waiting for Your Witchiness to chime in! Good point re checking the filter again, I shall do that as well as a wipe of the seal.

I’m not so fussed about my own clothes but the owners probably need to be gently told that they seriously need to consider seal replacement and that using hot water for washing doesn’t mitigate the impacts of mould without a good dry. Knowing the husband he’ll probably just buy an entire new washing machine, man has this obsession with buying new things rather than repairing