How to clean diaper gel and urine smell from dryer
Superabsorbent diaper gel spreads throughout the machine interior, turning a routine load of laundry into an overwhelming cleanup nightmare. Standard scrubbing often fails to remove the lingering urine odor, leaving people unsure if the dryer is even salvageable.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1rinsing clothes outside with a hose
- 2taking items to a laundromat and rewashing a couple times
- 3Caulking the base of the toilet while leaving a gap in the back to monitor for leaks.
- 4Putting target stickers or decals in the toilet bowl to improve aim.
- 5Making young boys sit down to pee at home.
- 6Using shaving cream and enzymatic urine destroyers around the base.
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
r/HomeMaintenance1 person · October 2026
r/CleaningTips1 person · October 2026
“Is this salvageable? How the heck do I clean all the gel up and get the smell out? This is a nightmare 😭”source ↗
smileykylie1013 · r/CleaningTips
Where this came up
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