Front or top load? Did you do a forced drain or will it accept a forced drain? On our machine, front loader, it is 'power on + spin speed + start. That is a 14 minute run. Yes, it is a pain when they go down!
Do you see a difference in how clean clothes come out between front and top load washers? I have a GE front loader. The darn thing always smells a bit moldy, though I wipe it down after every wash, and I think the color of the clothed gets dull.
When our LG front loader left us, that gasket around the front was indeed moldy, but other parts hidden within had become moldy as well. Good riddance. The GE top loader we have now does not have those issues, and it does an excellent job. We also changed our detergent to Blueland tablets. Most detergents are not only packaged in plastic, they have plastic in them, presumably as surfactants. Blueland, package and product, is plastic free and does an outstanding job. I like their dishwasher tablets, too, and find they do a better job than Cascade pods. If you try them, Amazon carries them and, not surprisingly, is waaaaaay faster. I read that putting on and taking off clothing with plastics in them is the chief way we ingest microplastics. Washing them with plastics and eating off of plates washed in plastics surely doesnât help. Ok, now back to appliance hell! Note that the ancient (1950s) appliances and faucet photographed above by @shrinkrap are chiefly good old metal.
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Not draining sounds like a clogged filter. YouTube has a ton of tutorials on DIY repairs if youâre so inclined. Usually just involves pulling the washer out to access the back panel â sometimes even less.
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I canât wait till it breaks down so I can get a top loader. We have the pedestals too so,Iâll need to get rid of the one under the washer. Itâs only 2 years old.
Good to know about the Blueland tablets. We use the toilet bowl ones and have been very happy with them.
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Yeah, they are cool.
It doesnât not drain. The problem is it doesnât spin. Like, the drum wonât go round-and-round.
Whoops. Well, YouTube and chatGPT can be big helpers if you wanna DIY repair.
NEW WASHING machine arrived this morning after repairman deemed the old one unfixable (only ten years old. Thanks, planned obsolescence.)
I remarked something in passing to him about wishing for a top-loader, and he volunteered that his own adult son had just bought a top-loader in the brand that the family held in highest esteem (LG), and had even gotten quite a nice deal at Loweâs.
After a quick consult with Mom and two phone calls to local independent appliance dealers (one of which has been in business since 1927 and is staffed entirely with extremely elderly people operating out of what can only be described as a 20th-century appliance museum) to see if either carried that brand (they donât), I bought the exact top-loader the repairman mentioned to me, and it was swiftly installed today.
Letâs see how long this puppy lasts.
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