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title: "Washer: Tub clean reminder"
description: "Washer tub clean reminder — washer: Tub clean reminder: lG washer — reported by blinking lights rather than by a code."
url: "https://lgmiami.support/error-codes/washer-tub-clean-reminder/"
date_modified: "2026-09-05"
Appliance type: "Washers"
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# Washer: Tub clean reminder

### What the appliance is actually reporting

The washer keeps a count of cycles and asks for a tub clean when it reaches the number. In this climate that request is worth taking seriously rather than dismissing, because a front loader in a humid house grows a biofilm in the gasket fold and under the detergent drawer, and the smell that follows arrives in the clean laundry. The cycle takes a couple of hours, runs hot, and needs an empty drum.

### The other light combinations that mean this

tcL · tCL · TCL

LG publishes what the indicator lights mean on the washers and dryers that have no numeric display. They are grouped here by what they mean rather than split into near-identical pages, and every pattern the maker names is printed above.

### Where this appears, and why not to clear it

On the indicator lights, on a laundry machine with no numeric display. LG publishes what the patterns mean, and on those models the pattern is the entire diagnosis — it disappears the moment the power is cut. Write it down or photograph the panel before switching anything off, and count a full sequence rather than a single flash: the lights also blink to show cycle status, so treat it as an error only if the machine is misbehaving as well.

### What to do about it

- Empty the drum completely. No laundry, not even one towel.
- Add a tub cleaner or a measured amount of bleach — LG’s own guidance for the small SideKick drum is a quarter cup of bleach diluted in a quart of water.
- Select tub clean and run it through.
- Wipe the gasket fold and leave the door ajar between washes afterwards.

### Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is [diagnostic visit](/services/diagnostic-visit/), and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 419-0291](tel:+13054190291) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

Tub clean reminder

What the lights are telling you

What the appliance is actually reporting

The washer keeps a count of cycles and asks for a tub clean when it reaches the number. In this climate that request is worth taking seriously rather than dismissing, because a front loader in a humid house grows a biofilm in the gasket fold and under the detergent drawer, and the smell that follows arrives in the clean laundry. The cycle takes a couple of hours, runs hot, and needs an empty drum.

The other light combinations that mean this

tcL · tCL · TCL

LG publishes what the indicator lights mean on the washers and dryers that have no numeric display. They are grouped here by what they mean rather than split into near-identical pages, and every pattern the maker names is printed above.

Where this appears, and why not to clear it

On the indicator lights, on a laundry machine with no numeric display. LG publishes what the patterns mean, and on those models the pattern is the entire diagnosis — it disappears the moment the power is cut. Write it down or photograph the panel before switching anything off, and count a full sequence rather than a single flash: the lights also blink to show cycle status, so treat it as an error only if the machine is misbehaving as well.

What to do about it

Empty the drum completely. No laundry, not even one towel.

Add a tub cleaner or a measured amount of bleach — LG’s own guidance for the small SideKick drum is a quarter cup of bleach diluted in a quart of water.

Select tub clean and run it through.

Wipe the gasket fold and leave the door ajar between washes afterwards.

Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is diagnostic visit, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 419-0291](tel:+13054190291) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

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