Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem

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Guys & Gals.

My Hotpoint WF630 washing machine has today started flooding.
When its on a rinse cyle, with the spin just started, water is coming into the dispensor area and flooding out of the drawer.
I guess it’s either taking too much water in or there is some sort of valve (maybe stuck or gunked up) somwhere down the inlet pipe betweeen the drawer and drum area.
I’m about to delve in and take a peek, but any ideas if I don’t find anything.

Thanks in advance ❓

[Martin]

Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem

The sump trap has got blocked with something (e.g. a stray sock or hankie). The Sump hose needs to be removed in order to do this. Very messy and very dangerous if you don’t disconnect the power first. 😉

Easy with your delving, may your god go with you………………. 8)

[admin]

Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem

That’s going to require a spare few hours, maybe at the weekend.
I’m sure when we got this thing, I was very surprised how little water you could see through the door. I was amazed how it washed anything.
Now 2 years on, it’s a different story. When it’s on a rinse cycle, the water is halfway up the door, so when it starts to slosh around, it’s travelling back up the rubber hose and out of the dispensor drawer.

My gut feeling is there is a problem with the pressure system, and that it’s not knocking off soon enough.
Are there any documents on how to adjust this, or is it trial and error ???

[hotpnt]

Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem

there is no adjustment on them, still sounds like the sump is blocked & causing machine to not correctly measure the water level, also trying to spin with too much water in it

[iadom]

Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem

keat wrote:That’s going to require a spare few hours, maybe at the weekend.

15 to 20 minutes at the most, if you know what you are doing of course. 😉

[admin]

Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem

I’d agree with you on the not measuring the water level correctly.
On the level pressure sensor are 3 adjustment screws, so there is some adjustment.
I find that if i fiddle with the middle one, I can adjust the amount of water in the drum, from alomost nothing to almost 3/4 full.
For the time being, Iv’e dropped the level, and adjusted the front feet to tilt the unit back slightly.
This has resolved my problem, so no more flooding the house.

If the sump was blocked, wouldn’t this restrict the pump out.
It doesn’t appear to have any problems pumping out.

I hate washing machines.. no matter which make or model we go for, we only seem to get about 2 years out of one, before it starts to give grief. And extended warranties are a waste of time, as they cost half as much as a new unit, plus you have to wait a week for the bloke to come out and tell you he doesn’t have the parts, and will be another week.
We can”t survive 2 weeks without a washing machine, ours is on atleast twice a day

😆 😉

[iadom]

Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem

We have given you the benefit of many, many years of experience, ( at least 40 years each in two instances). We have told you that the sump is almost certainly blocked or restricted. Under no circumstances should you have attempted to adjust the pressure switch.
The pressure switch senses directly from the sump assembly.

Instead you chose to ignore this advice. :rolls:

If you had just taken the trouble to take the sump hose off and inspect the sump filter you would now, like as not have a fully functioning washing machine.

We can only go so far, if you choose not to take the well intentioned advice of seasoned professionals then that is your choice.

Accept the fact that the people who have tried to help you see this type of fault several times each week.

The adjustments are there to set up the switch for each particular machine, they should not be altered in any way after installation. 👿

PS. If you actually get round to heeding the advice you have been given you may even find that the obstruction in the sump is something that shouldn’t have been put in the machine in the first place, or it could be a small sock or similar item of clothing that is better placed in a washbag before washing.

[Penguin45]

Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem

Oh dear.

Penguin45.

[kiddo66]

Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem

You wonder why the machines only last a couple of years 😉
I can think of one reason.

[admin]

Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem

I’ve never been so insulted. I clearly stated that it would have to wait until the weekend before I can drop the sump off. Yes I know it would only take 15 mins, but it’s going to take me an hour just to be able to get the unit to an area that allows me to drop it on its end. It’s in a small confined space.
This thing runs twice a day in our house.. if I didn’t do something to keep it going yesterday, then the wife would go ballistic..

Rather than telling me there is no adjustment, and then me finding out that actually there is, didn’t strike me with confidence that you knew what you were talking about.
Whereas, If you’d have said, I’ve been a repair man for 20 years, and yes they can be adjusted, but ‘ve never known a pressure sensor to fail, do not mess with it, it’s not at fault, trust me I’m a doctor, then I might have been inclined to listen.
Or even adjust the middle scew by two full turns, until you get the sock out of the sump, then two full turns back when you’ve done, might have helped.

I am in a position where the wife needs to run a wash, i keep telling her to wait, only to find she’s put another load in, with a towel down to mop up the spillage.

As for them only lasting a few years, it’s cos they don’t make things like they used to.
And I’m certainly not paying £80 call out for some spanner monkey to remove a sock.

[Washman]

Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem

Hi

If you are not going to take notice of the advice given on this site, why did you bother asking for help in the first place. Pressure switches are factory set . All the replies you had were from engineers who do this work daily and take offense at being called “spanner monkeys” ,and they give advise to the public on their own free time .

[kiddo66]

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Why bother asking for advice of “spanner monkeys”if you are going to ignore it.Nobody told you to adjust the pressure switch as they are not meant to be adjusted,I hope for your sake you remembered how far you turned that screw because get it wrong and you have a fire hazzard on your hands if the thing starts heating up with insufficient water in it.Believe me i have done the reports on them,I have sorted the claims out,Oh and if you do have an incident I hope you come clean to your insurers that you pintled about with a safety device.
You could have had the job done properly when you add up all the time you spent online and messed about with a terminal driver.
Dont let me put you off repairing it mind
Merry Xmas.

[Martin]

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keat wrote:I’ve never been so insulted

Well here we have what can only be described as a typical freeloading info searcher. A something for nothing merchant that cannot take on board the freely given and truthful information this website aspires to. 8)

I despair at anyone bothering such information on someone so heedlessly, I really do….. especially as I was the first to point him toward solving his (oh so important – used twice a day even) problem 🙁

[admin]

Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem

Not nice being insulted is it.

[kiddo66]

Re: Hotpoint WF630 flooding problem

YOU started it mate by ignoring the advice given to you.As one of my departed colleagues used to say
“I can give you the information but i cannot give you the intelligence to understand it”

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