Most people hate being charged for an estimate. So appliance repairmen are under pressure to do it for free. It costs a lot more than you’d think to send an engineer to someone’s house and then spend time working out […]
Is your washing machine no longer pumping water out? Has this happened after you’ve just plumbed it into a u-bend under the sink, or have moved house and connected it to the existing u-bend plumbing? If so this article is
Sometimes the washing machine belt comes off. You can hear the motor spinning away, but the drum isn’t moving. You can also feel that when you spin the drum by hand, it has less resistance than normal. If this has
Have you got clothes coming out of washing machine hot? Laundry should be cold when coming out of the washing machine (they’ve just been rinsed several times in cold water). However, the temperature of the cold water varies throughout the
Sometimes the fabric softener doesn’t seem to work properly. The laundry isn’t softened and doesn’t have the normal fabric softener smell. This can be because it’s being taken into the machine too soon – often during the early rinses –
If the fabric softener is still in the fabric compartment at the end of the cycle and is not being taken out there are a few possible causes. The fault is unlikely to be serious. This article looks at the
Symptoms: Hotpoint washing machine has what looks like tESt in the display and just keeps running a short cycle on its own and won't accept a program. When it’s finished spinning, the whole process carries just on again. Stuck in
A Washing machine tripping or fusing electrics is a fault you can’t really deal with unless you have electrical knowledge, and a specialist insulation test meter. However, you might be able to do some basic checks as described in this
Many people believe the washing machine isn’t heating up water when they can’t feel any hot water through the door. But if the washing machine appears to otherwise work OK and the laundry comes out clean it may not have
If your washing machine is noisy and you want find out why then this article will help. It contains all possible explanations for excessive noise, by an engineer with over 40 years experience. If your washing machine is noisy do