Hi,
I went to visit my dad today and he started messing around with his washing machine cleaning out the pump filter.
He was very belts and braces about it,in that it should be done every few weeks. He showed me the gunked up filter and it did look pretty disgusting to say the least.
I ashamably admitted to him I've never cleaned mine in the several years I've had it and after a few words he convinced me that I should do mine.
After a seventy mile drive home I looked at my very sad looking washing machine and decided to tackle the job of cleaning the filter.
I prized the white cover off and then undone the cap but the filter refused to come out.
Being the stone age knuckle dragging lump I am , I put a tad to much force in trying to get the filter out and cap detached it self from the filter.
I managed to get it reattached and then after a few more failed attempts I gave up before I completed destroyed it.
I tightened it up it and put it on a quick wash cycle to ensure it was ok.
To my horror the water started flowing out of the screw in cap all over the kitchen floor.
Not the most practical and certainly the most ham fisted person I am I resigned myself that the once working washing machine was no more.
Sitting down in a strop contemplating the prospect of buying a new machine my ex brother in popped round for a brew.
Now he's the total opposite to me.
For a start he's got more than 2 brain cells unlike me and a lot less ham fisted.
So between the pair of us we dragged the washing machine outside into the garden and lay it on it back with the intentation of taking it apart (well what have I got to lose)
I went to undo the threaded cap again to show him that it's stuck and subsequently now leaking ,but this time it just came out with on issues what so ever.
Strangely enough this particular servis model didn't have a filter.
You could just see the impeller of the pump.
The rubber seal looked in great shape too !!
I did however find 57 pence worth of coins inside as well as a safety pin and a hair slide which must of been from my ex wife (and she run off with the milkman well over 7 years ago)
Between us we slowly fished out all the shrapnel ,cleaned it up.
I wasn't keen on dragging it back into the kitchen again just incase it leaked so we filled it up with a watering can in the back garden,hooked it up to the extension cable and switched it on.
Success no more leaks from the filter pump .I tried it again and again and all was good.
We dragged it back in,cleaned it up ( I didn't realise it was brilliant white 🤣) plumbed it in and now works perfectly.
I suppose the moral of the story is , don't listen to your dad's advice, make sure you've got more than a couple brain cells before attempting to fix anything and always have a good friend who knows what there doing with such things.
In hindsight I think one of the coins must of somehow lodged itself in the screw out housing preventing me from removing the gubbins and when I re tightened it the hair clip or something got in between the rubber seal.
On a positive side I've now got some loose change for a cuppa tea at work this week 🤣
What a complete Wally 🤣
I went to visit my dad today and he started messing around with his washing machine cleaning out the pump filter.
He was very belts and braces about it,in that it should be done every few weeks. He showed me the gunked up filter and it did look pretty disgusting to say the least.
I ashamably admitted to him I've never cleaned mine in the several years I've had it and after a few words he convinced me that I should do mine.
After a seventy mile drive home I looked at my very sad looking washing machine and decided to tackle the job of cleaning the filter.
I prized the white cover off and then undone the cap but the filter refused to come out.
Being the stone age knuckle dragging lump I am , I put a tad to much force in trying to get the filter out and cap detached it self from the filter.
I managed to get it reattached and then after a few more failed attempts I gave up before I completed destroyed it.
I tightened it up it and put it on a quick wash cycle to ensure it was ok.
To my horror the water started flowing out of the screw in cap all over the kitchen floor.
Not the most practical and certainly the most ham fisted person I am I resigned myself that the once working washing machine was no more.
Sitting down in a strop contemplating the prospect of buying a new machine my ex brother in popped round for a brew.
Now he's the total opposite to me.
For a start he's got more than 2 brain cells unlike me and a lot less ham fisted.
So between the pair of us we dragged the washing machine outside into the garden and lay it on it back with the intentation of taking it apart (well what have I got to lose)
I went to undo the threaded cap again to show him that it's stuck and subsequently now leaking ,but this time it just came out with on issues what so ever.
Strangely enough this particular servis model didn't have a filter.
You could just see the impeller of the pump.
The rubber seal looked in great shape too !!
I did however find 57 pence worth of coins inside as well as a safety pin and a hair slide which must of been from my ex wife (and she run off with the milkman well over 7 years ago)
Between us we slowly fished out all the shrapnel ,cleaned it up.
I wasn't keen on dragging it back into the kitchen again just incase it leaked so we filled it up with a watering can in the back garden,hooked it up to the extension cable and switched it on.
Success no more leaks from the filter pump .I tried it again and again and all was good.
We dragged it back in,cleaned it up ( I didn't realise it was brilliant white 🤣) plumbed it in and now works perfectly.
I suppose the moral of the story is , don't listen to your dad's advice, make sure you've got more than a couple brain cells before attempting to fix anything and always have a good friend who knows what there doing with such things.
In hindsight I think one of the coins must of somehow lodged itself in the screw out housing preventing me from removing the gubbins and when I re tightened it the hair clip or something got in between the rubber seal.
On a positive side I've now got some loose change for a cuppa tea at work this week 🤣
What a complete Wally 🤣
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