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Hello I have just got an 6 month old Indesit WIDL126 washer dryer. I popped it in just now and ran a 90 degree cotton wash. The machine ran through its programme and the clothes are clean however the wash part of the cycle was well over an hour and in that time there was loads of steam coming out of the detergent tray, so much so, that I had to open all the doors and windows and squeegee the windows. It looked like the suds were sort of boiling, although I would sort of expect that at 90 degrees… although I would not have expected it to steam the house out. Whilst this was happening I looked on various forums and saw a similar issue on the drying cycle for this machine and it said that there was a water lock to stop steam coming out of the detergent tray and advised putting in half a cup of water. I did this and it didn’t help so I popped some more in etc as I thought it may have been tipped out in transit. This was all to no avail. I can’t believe this is normal. Is there something obvious wrong here or do I say ‘thanks but no thanks’ and put the ancient Service washing machine back in? Many thanks in advance for your views.
Re: Steaming indesit WIDL126
Using a 90 deg wash cycle it’s not an unusual phenomenon where the air temperature in the room is cold (this time of year) the steam vapour from the dispenser is to be expected. Modern thermostats on machines these days are very accurate overall but when they fail an error flags up and the machine fails to complete a full wash cycle. So if the machine completes the full wash, rinse and spin cycle and the clothes show no apparent damage then chances are there is no fault, no problem.
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Hello and thanks for your response. I think the amount of steam here is a little underestimated. I have done some colder washes and it was fine but even now on the ‘white wash cotton 90 degrees’ with the temp knocked back to 70 degrees is is steaming like a b****rd. I am not talking about a bit, I am talking about visible steam like the kettle is boiling in the room and it is 21 degrees c in here. It is not an outside utility room, I am looking at a thermometer right now. The humidity is 90{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} too. I took it apart yesterday to see if anything was adrift and noted that there is a rubber u bend fitted between the soap tray to the drum. This should cause a vapour trap between the drum and the soap tray. It isn’t working. I did think perhaps it was evaporating the water from the u bend but adding water when it is steaming doesn’t help. It is like the u bend is defective. I also noted that the soap tray clip-on ABS panel with the wash instructions on it has actually distorted because of the steam that is coming out.As a result the middle clip does not engage. It was probably like this when I got it and I can see that people have been in there investigating because some of the screws were missing (now replaced). Could the temperature sensor or the manual temperature select pot be faulty, is the actual rubber moulding of the water trap somehow defective? It does complete the cycle but I can’t imagine people literally having to squeegee their windows and kitchen units each time they do a wash. Any advice appreciated.
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Actually looking at it now, even though I manually selected 70 degrees centigrade at the beginning of the programme, it is just boiling up the water in the drum. Perhaps the water trap is fine it is just getting steam pushed through it. Currently it has been on the wash part of the cycle for about 90 mins and just boiling away,no drum movement, like it is stuck int he cycle, so I have just turned down the wash temperature. Nothing happened until I got to the snow flake (cold wash) and then it started churning again. Error with the temperature sensor?
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Are we talking about a thermistor here or is ther something wrong with the IDC potentiometer that does the manual temp selection? Would this also explain the long wash times… ie it is trying to heat the water but not quite getting there?
Thanks so much for your help.
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Cheers, I will give that a go and let you know how I get on. Many thanks once again Martin.
Re: Steaming indesit WIDL126
Hello, popped the thermistor in. It was a very quick job, and cost about £10. I put the machine on a hot wash (90 degrees) and it ran through the cycle in the sort of time the instruction manual suggested this cycle should take. I used a temperature sensor on the back of the drum to monitor the temperature. It washed at 87 degrees, which is near as damn it 90 degrees. There was no steam. I would say, job done.
Thank you Martin.
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