looking for advice

[Ally]

Sorry if i have double posted this but i cannot see it

Hope someone can help with some info.
Background
Went out to a machine today Indisit Washer dryer approx two years old for not filling i:e taking water but not filling. Soon found a large hole in the sump where the element lives. The water was just running through the machine and down a hole in the floorboards to the basement. Put my fingers in the hole and retrieved the piece of stainless steel in the picture bellow. It was rolled up and in a sort of ball shape. I have since opened it out now the fun starts, the tenant is doing her nut as she has been without a w/machine for three days and I would like some conformation that this piece of metal is not part of the machine. I do not think it is from the inside of the machine but would like some conformation before condemning the tenant to forking out for a new machine.
Ally

ps the tenent has had the machine from new ..supplyed by john tallor of Giffnock.

http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae69 … 010058.jpg

aprox 80 mm across

[gandh1]

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ha looks like the flat part of a dishwasher filter.

ulikely tho! btw who owns the machine? the tenant or the landlord? because if its owned by the landlord and was put it for the tenant rather than the tenant buying it, then she wont have much say in what happens and the landlord will prololy replace with another crappy machine

on most tenanted callouts we are asked to state whether we feel its general wear&tear/fault with the machine or if its misuse. most of the time its the former but if not and there nice as pie then even if theres a more than a hint of misuse ill tend to still claim its poor design… however ive found if the tenants really stroppy acts like your the lowest and theyre so much higher above you, then if theres any issue of misuse its reported back to the landlord as abused. 😈

[bazza500]

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That is the filter which fits at the bottom of the condenser at the back of the machine.

Part number 080772

[Ally]

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Thought that myself once i unfolded the metal. So as i had the keys for the flat went back to check the dishwasher bu it is all there. The other thing i was thinking is one of those coffee makers the won where you push down the plunger dont know what they are called.

[Ally]

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Excellent bazza500 the landlord will be over the moon at having to buy another machine. Thank goodness I never supplied it.lol To be truthful don’t open up any machines these days.

[gandh1]

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weird how its always the indesits where the bearings, electronics or concrete blocks have survived past 2 years, that means they get writtenoff by the less usual issues…

Ally wrote:the landlord will be over the moon at having to buy another machine.

he shouldnt have been a tightwad landlord then! id say put a zanussi in but theyve just shot up a huge leap in trade price for us, sounless you can pick up a zanussi w/d for under £300 net (in which case tell me where too) for a smidge extra he could get a bosch, anything else washer dryer wise below the level of the bosch isnt worth having unless you can find a fagor…

[Ally]

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After the trouble Fagor gave me back in the late 70s. I would not sell there machines if they were free.

[gandh1]

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lol thats like 40 years ago!

in the last 6 years i havent had to uplift, replace, or even have a serious customer complaint about one yet, and the only repairs have been user impatience… and we had sold a fair few!

[Ally]

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That may well be but I’ve got a long memory and short on patience.

I remember well having the stockroom full of there appliances also spilling out on to the shop floor approx 80 machines and was given to job of uplifting everyone of them from customers usually top flat and replacing them . NEVER AGAIN as long as I live.

[hilly]

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ive had exactly the same thing this week, at a student property, it is the filter from the dryer! they have bought a replacement w/m but the sad thing is its the same model so ill be back in the near future for the same thing or the usual bearings or pcb.

paul

[Ally]

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Hi Hillie
Never had this before but it made a mess of the inner drum and put a few holes in the outer. Think the tenent put it on and went to work the noise must have been horrific.

[Allsorts]

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Me being suspicious like… Has it been placed there on purpose so they get a new machine from the landlord 😆

George

[suedehead1]

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bazza500 wrote:That is the filter which fits at the bottom of the condenser at the back of the machine.

Part number 080772

i agree its definately part of the washing machine, i had to remove one from the bottom of the plastic condenser as it was rubbing on the drum, the hole in the middle is where the bolt that goes through the plastic condenser bolts on to it,
definately part of the machine.

[Ally]

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Just to top of the story on this one we replased it with a hotpoint lol. Landlords just dont get it…..

[gandh1]

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fagor would have been more reliable than that 😉

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