Indesit WIL103 – adding hot water

[josh134]

Hello,

I was hoping to get a few pointers about how to connect up the hot water to my washing machine.

This machine is in the property that I rent, but I don’t mind spending a few bob if needs be. I’ve been happy enough for the last 2 years with just cold washing, but some stuff would just benefit from a warm wash every now and then!

I thought this would be quite simple, there’s a hot house all plumbed in so I thought I’d just plug it in … until I had a look.

There’s no spot for the hot and in fact it doesn’t even look like the machine expects for a hot input! I checked the installation manual I found (page 2 / http://www.aroundtownflats.com/manuals/ … Manual.pdf) and it looks like it should be able to take the two hoses as inputs.

Here’s some photos of what I’m seeing:
1. This is the back of the machine showing the cold input.

2. I’ve used a mirror to show the underside of the water input assembly. This photo shows the tracks on the underside where I assume the water flows, flowing into the detergent tray.

3. Here’s the mirror shot again, up the back of the machine, showing the tracks again and the solenoids. There’s 2 solenoids, and by following the tracks I made an educated guess that one solenoid controls the pre-wash input flow and the other controls the main input flow.

4. There’s the top of the machine with the lid off – see, nothing on the other side of where I’d expect the hot to go.

5. And, a close up of the solenoids. Not a great photo, sorry about that.

So … where does the hot even go? I’m quite baffled!

Many thanks in advance for any help!

[repman]

Re: Indesit WIL103 – adding hot water

why do you want to redesign the machine ?It is only a cold fill but the water is heated during the wash

[josh134]

Re: Indesit WIL103 – adding hot water

Aaaah! Absolutely don’t want to redesign the machine – heating during the wash crossed my mind but the two hoses shown in the manual made me think otherwise.

But – thanks for the very quick reply – confirmed that I don’t need to do anything = great result!

[Ralph]

Re: Indesit WIL103 – adding hot water

You might want to swap the cold fill pipe round as well. The elbow fitting goes to the machine end

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