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Hello all,
Today my wife informed me that the washing machine is no longer draining, the machine seemed to be making an “off” sound this morning and doesnt seem to drain at all now, we manually drained the system and then started it on a spin and drain cycle which didnt work, is there a way to force the drain pump to work so i can check this?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Cheers
have you opened the filter and check both the filter and the pump impellor for obstuctions. the pump impellor is at the back of the filter housing
Dave
electrofix wrote:have you opened the filter and check both the filter and the pump impellor for obstuctions. the pump impellor is at the back of the filter housing
Dave
Hello Dave,
yes I opened filter and checked filter and impeller. Both was fine and clear, since my first post I pulled the machine out to check for anything obvious, the outlet pipe was quite blocked so I cleaned the pipe out and ran through a quick wash and everything seemed good, the water was pumped away into a bucket, put machine back in place and ran through a wash with clothes in which seemed to work but then on the second load the machine didn’t drain again so I ran a spin and drain which drained some of the water out but still not emptying the drum, it drains enough for the door release to disengage but not fully draining meaning the clothes are sitting in a few inches of water.
Do you use those colour catcher sheets? Possible, because of the numerous times I have come across it, that there is something caught at the top of the black rubber sump hose. I haven`t had time to check but if you have an over sized ping pong ball in the sump hose it is supposed to be there so do not throw it away. Other than that given everything you have checked the only other thing will be the pump itself playing silly buggers which is also fairly common so check the sump hose first. You may have to take the front panel off to can access to the ” hose clip” depending upon the angle it was set at at the factory or whether you have a base plate fitted that makes a 15 min job into a 45min job such being the barmy appliance trade way of doing things in C21st..
Sorry guys i thought id replied to this, i sorted it out. In the end i pulled the machine apart and ran the pump independently to rule that one out which was working fine, i then removed all hoses from the pump right up to drain outlet and found a piece of lego stuck sideways in the drain hose causing an obstruction, this had then obviously caught other debris over the years and eventually blocked it. Cleaned the hose out and its been fine ever since 🙂
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