If you have a washing machine, chances are you have appreciated all its benefits long ago. Modern housewives have long forgotten what it means to wash, rinse and wring out clothes by hand.
Nevertheless, even the best and most high-quality washing machine is still a technique that tends to break. Quite often, a situation arises when the washing machine suddenly stops during the washing process, does not rinse and does not wring out the laundry. Why is this happening and how to fix the trouble? Let's take a look at the most common reasons.
The washing machine does not rinse the laundry well
If the washing machine does not rinse the laundry or does it badly, there may be several reasons for this, from the most simple and commonplace to complex and unpleasant. Here are some situations when the reason lies not at all in the breakdown of the unit:
Overload... If you put too much laundry into the machine, then the washing powder has little space and does not dissolve well. It clogs up in the folds of clothing and does not have enough contact with water.
Large amount of powder. Sometimes white streaks remain on the laundry because the amount of powder is much higher than the amount of water for rinsing. To eliminate the trouble, it is enough to run an additional cycle several times.
Low water pressure. Insufficiently strong pressure is for two reasons:
- malfunctions in the entire plumbing;
- the hose supplying water to the unit is clogged.
In the first case, you can't do anything, you just need to wait until the situation improves. In the second, you need to clean the supply pipe and the filter mesh installed at the entrance to the system, the rinsing program will start again.
If none of the above is confirmed, most likely the cause of the trouble lies in the breakdown of the washing machine itself.
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The washing machine is frozen and does not go into rinse mode
The situation looks something like this: the washing machine starts in normal mode, it washes for a while, but as soon as it comes to rinsing, the program for some reason stops and goes into standby mode. First you need to find out what exactly your assistant does not want to do: rinse, squeeze or pump out water.
First of all, you need to reset the current settings, select the "drain" mode and start the washer again. If nothing happens, examine the integrity of the drain hose. It is likely that it just twisted or was pinched by something heavy. Therefore the washing machine does not spin the laundry. Is the hose ok? Look for a blockage in the sewer pipe. To do this, carefully detach the drain connection and lower it into a bathtub or sink. If the program "drain" has worked, then the problem is in the plumbing.
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After all the manipulations done, everything remains the same and the washing machine does not rinse or wring out the laundry? It means that everything is bad - the problem is in the car.
The washing machine does not rinse or wring out
Before starting troubleshooting, you need to de-energize the machine. Be sure to remove the plug from the socket, this is very important! Now it is necessary to forcibly free the unit from water. This can be done through the drain filter. It is located at the bottom of the machine, behind a small panel. Now take out the laundry, you will have to rinse and wring it out by hand. Everything is ready, we start troubleshooting.
Blockage in pump, return filter, or pipe
This is the most common answer to the question of why the washing machine does not go into rinsing mode or does not spin the laundry well. There is a lot of debris in the dirty water that the machine empties after washing. Sand, dust, dirt, hair, threads and small pellets and lint. Sometimes the contents of the pockets are added to all this. Garbage clogs the drain system and the water simply has nowhere to go. In order for rinsing to resume, you need to clean the drain and filler.
Broken water level sensor
The washing machine has such a device - a pressure switch. It determines the water level in the tank of the unit. Depending on the data received from this device, the control board commands the washing process. If water level sensor is broken, the washing machine simply "does not understand" what to do and stops.
The drain pump has become unusable
This is another of the reasons why the rinse mode does not work, or the washing machine does not spin things. The drain pump does not drain water after washing and the washing machine does not rinse the laundry. The cause of the breakdown may be getting into drain pump different items or just a long service life.
If all the hoses, filters and tubes are cleaned, the drain is working as expected, and still the washing machine does not switch the rinse mode, there are a couple more reasons for this.
Burned out heating element
If the heating element burns out, the water simply does not heat up to the set temperature. This becomes the reason that the process stops at the washing stage, and the rinsing cycle simply does not have time to start. If, when setting the washing mode, you set the temperature to more than 30 ° C, just touch the glass. Is it all cold? Hence, faulty heating element and it needs to be replaced.
Burned out control module
In other words, the washing machine has become unusable. control board... Without this part, the machine stops receiving and receiving commands, which means that the rinsing mode will not turn on.
A few tips
If you want your washing machine to always delight you with clean and fresh laundry, and the rinse mode always turned on and worked perfectly, follow these simple rules:
- use only high-quality detergents; cheap powders are poorly soluble in water;
- load the machine a little less than it should be according to the instructions, leave more free space;
- carefully check pockets and cuffs before washing, be sure to remove dirt and foreign objects;
- half an hour after the start of the washing process, touch the glass, make sure that the water in the machine is heated to the desired temperature;
- use the “extra rinse” function without using rinse aid;
- at least once every six months, do preventive cleaning of the water intake and drain systems, and also check the filters.
If you follow these simple rules, your home assistant will delight you with uninterrupted work for a long time.
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