[PeteBest]

Hi,

Yes, the ukwhitegoods people found the part number and added it to their store here – https://shop.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/k191…er-water-valve

Replacing this did solve my issue but your symptoms are different from mine, based on your description and my limited knowledge I wouldn’t have thought it was this valve causing your issue. Mine was getting the clothes boiling hot but all steamy. I disconnected the feed from the triple valve to the condenser and there wasn’t any water being fed into the condenser during the drying cycle. If there’s no temperature at all I wouldn’t be suspecting the condenser part of the drying process, probably more likely to be the heater element/thermostatic trip

I’m normally better with taking lots of photos, but doesn’t look like I took too many of this, link to imgur below. First image is of the right hand side of the machine, I can’t remember if they’ve got the reset button, but in between where the spade connectors go into the heating element there may be a small button, pushing this resets it if it’s reached a thermal cut off. Should be a nice audible click if it had tripped and needed to be reset

Problem is that this would almost certainly have been the first thing your repair guy should have checked for.

2nd picture is after I’ve removed the shroud and heating element/fan, so you can get to the condenser, I plonked the pipe into a bottle to see if it actually drew water like it should (but if you’re not heating I suspect it wouldn’t bother drawing water)

https://imgur.com/a/DMQKJj3

Best of luck! I’ve pretty much given up with mine. If it’s not one thing it’s another, so I just use it as a washer now. Personally believe these washer/dryers to have very large design flaws that will cause this sort of issue continually

Pete

[PeteBest]

Thanks for the uber-quick reply Don, email sent. Fingers crossed they have more luck than some other stores

Pete

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