Weird—we've got an ~3 month old Samsung washing machine (uh oh...) that also smells strongly of chemicals. I'm beginning to doubt the smell will ever go away.

Weird—we've got an ~3 month old Samsung washing machine (uh oh...) that also smells strongly of chemicals. I'm beginning to doubt the smell will ever go away. Don't have any complaints about it otherwise (unless it turns out to be an exploding model) but I've never had a new appliance smell so much for so long. You've got an hour, tops, to get the clothes out of it and into the (older, other brand) drier or they'll stink of Samsung chemicals and you'll have to run them again.