Washing machine

Here’s what to do if your washing machines goes through its cycle until it gets to spin, and then instead of spinning, sits there full of water refusing to open its door.

Your problem is that the pump isn’t kicking into action to drain the cylinder to enable the spin cycle to start. This is likely to be for one of two reasons:

1. Your pump is knackered;
2. Your filter and pump are clogged, so the pump cannot spin.

Fortunately in my case it was the latter. The way to fix it is as follows. Get to the bottom of the machine on the front and drain the filter by uncorking the narrow rubber pipe on the front and directing the (stinky, stagnant) water into a container (1 litre+ may come out so don’t uncork it until you are ready with the container). If it’s stuck and won’t drain, you can poke about with the dip stick inside the rubber pipe to free it. Then unscrew and remove the filter which is on the left, bottom, front. Take the filter out and thoroughly wash all the gunk off with warm water. The pump is behind where the filter was before you took it out. Take a bit of rag and clear all the gunk and/or anything that might be stuck in there (pennies, paperclips, etc) out from in front of and around the pump. The pump blades should now be able to spin if you twizzle them with your finger. Stick the filter back in and run the machine empty on short cycle to see if it works and to flush clean water through the system to get all the stagnant water out. If it goes through all the cycles OK, it’s fixed and ready for a load of wash. If it still doesn’t work, your pump is probably knackered.

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