Siemens SE25A090GB/21 emptying, but not filling!

Re: Siemens SE25A090GB/21 emptying, but not filling!

Flood protection system is activated, it over-rides all other control functions. The white plastic tray under the machine has water in it, which needs to be drained off. Then find the leak……

Based on your description, I would suspect sludging of the transfer pipe causing the water to back up through the water level control chamber is the culprit. Remove lid and left hand side panel to see what is happening.

Power off before touching anything.

Penguin45.

Re: Siemens SE25A090GB/21 emptying, but not filling!

Remove from housing. Lift latches under rear edge of lid and push back. Force may be required. Side panels retained by two screws in front edge of panel.

Penguin45.

Re: Siemens SE25A090GB/21 emptying, but not filling!

This is the bit that matters:

If the base has water in it, the red rod will be pushing up to work the microswitch and run the drain pump. The usual cause is the hose coming out of the bottom right hand corner gumming up – it can back up into the water level chamber as well. When the side tank empties, water will overflow out and into the base, thus operating the float switch. Strip down and clean out will sort it.

With the power off and some towels down, lay the machine right over on one side to drain the base, then observe what happens if you restart a programme.

Penguin45.

Re: Siemens SE25A090GB/21 emptying, but not filling!

Side tank off first. The fill chamber will release with a pull and a wiggle and can simply be stripped for cleaning, then pull the hose clear.

You shouldn’t need parts, but spares@ukwhitegoods.co.uk can supply if you decide that you need to replace anything.

Penguin45.

Re: Siemens SE25A090GB/21 emptying, but not filling!

Hi all!

I have had virtually the same problem (on my Siemens, which is almost identical to the one on the pictures Penguin45 posted). Since we moved in to this house, a month ago, I have noticed that the machine fills water in short intermittent intervalls, but it wasn’t until today it wouldn’t start it’s cycle. The evacuation pump just kept going.

And yes, there was water in the bottom tray. Draining it fixed the problem, but when I ran the machine with the left side cover off it was clear that water kept overflowing in the water level control chamber. The chamber was fairly clean, but I removed some sludge from the plastic tube (called transfer pipe earlier?) This helped, but it hasn’t fixed the problem entirely. It still fills the water in intervalls, although longer between the cutoffs. And the water level still gets dangerously high in the control chamber, so much that a few drops escape from time to time.

So now I wonder, is all the incoming water supposed to pass the control chamber? Because the incoming water is divided into two pipes by the intricately shaped plastic tube thingy on the left, and it seems 95{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of the water goes into the left of the two downgoing pipes, and then, as far as i can understand, it comes up again into the level control chamber. Should more water take the right route (which perhaps goes straight into the machine?), thus easing the flow through the control chamber? Any other suggestions?

Jon
(Different guy than the one just above, this one is from Sweden :))