MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Following on from the Good Friday, my a*se thread, i need to help to ensure that I replace the correct parts in my washing machine.
For a while now, the drum has been very slowly filling with water when the machine is not in use... at a rate of say 2" over ten days. I discovered that leaving the power switch 'on' instead of 'off' reduced the unwelcome self-fill rate by about 75%, to about 1/2" over ten days... so for the last few months i've been leaving it on and checking it regularly.
This led me to suspect the water inlet solenoids are the fault, although i'm yet to determine if it's one or both.
Last Wednesday i noticed the drum had plenty of 'self-fill' water in it and was trickling out of the machine's open door, so i shut the door, put the machine on 'spin' which drained the water out (meaning the pump is fully functional, right?), then mopped the floor (i'm a modern man).
On Thursday i couldn't open the washing machine's door, but wasn't too worried as i couldn't see any water in it... but on Friday morning it transpired that there was so much water in the drum that it was full to the top and leaking out, into my downstairs neighbours kitchen (so full it looked empty, who'd have thought it!).
today i disconnected the pipe from the 'hot' inlet valve and put a bottle beneath it, and turned on the hot water to find a steady trickle going into the bottle (not a torrent, a trickle). In my tiny mind, I'd assume that the inlet solenoid would not let any water through with the machine switched off... so i suspect that either one or both solenoids/inlet valves need replacing.
does this make sense or am i having another one of my famous blonde moments?
For a while now, the drum has been very slowly filling with water when the machine is not in use... at a rate of say 2" over ten days. I discovered that leaving the power switch 'on' instead of 'off' reduced the unwelcome self-fill rate by about 75%, to about 1/2" over ten days... so for the last few months i've been leaving it on and checking it regularly.
This led me to suspect the water inlet solenoids are the fault, although i'm yet to determine if it's one or both.
Last Wednesday i noticed the drum had plenty of 'self-fill' water in it and was trickling out of the machine's open door, so i shut the door, put the machine on 'spin' which drained the water out (meaning the pump is fully functional, right?), then mopped the floor (i'm a modern man).
On Thursday i couldn't open the washing machine's door, but wasn't too worried as i couldn't see any water in it... but on Friday morning it transpired that there was so much water in the drum that it was full to the top and leaking out, into my downstairs neighbours kitchen (so full it looked empty, who'd have thought it!).
today i disconnected the pipe from the 'hot' inlet valve and put a bottle beneath it, and turned on the hot water to find a steady trickle going into the bottle (not a torrent, a trickle). In my tiny mind, I'd assume that the inlet solenoid would not let any water through with the machine switched off... so i suspect that either one or both solenoids/inlet valves need replacing.
does this make sense or am i having another one of my famous blonde moments?
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